From the monthly archives: June 2011
In this video you will learn:
1) What are Drupal modules
2) What are the Four Mandatory Modules to install
3) How to enable modules
The Modules:
Token http://drupal.org/project/token
Views http://drupal.org/project/views
CTools http://drupal.org/project/ctools
Pathauto http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
In this video you will learn how to:
1) Change the name of a Content Type
2) Turn off comments for a Content Type
The day was perfect for swimming but too late in the day to go to the pool with its short hours. My friend Ash, whom I’ve known since we were nine years old, picked me up in her big SUV. Where are we going to swim? I asked. Brevard, she replied. We chatted about the [...]
For more of a background on Drupal Content Types, please see this page: http://drupal.org/node/21947
What you will learn in this video:
1) What is a content type?
2) Look at the Basic Page Content Type
3) Create a Content Type
4) Add a custom field to your Content Type
In the second part of this series, I will demonstrate how to install, enable, and tweak the Drupal theme, Acquia Slate (note: I’m not sure how to pronounce Acquia!).
Some helpful links:
The first ICL Reboot video http://vimeo.com/23872207
Filezilla http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client
Page to download Acquia Slate for Drupal 7 [...]
Background
The International and Comparative Librarianship Communitas website that I was paid to build last year is running extra slow on the BlueHost server. I am curious if it is BlueHost that is just so terrible or if the ICL website built in Drupal using the Sam’s Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours [...]
On Saturday, May 28th around noon, my boyfriend of 18 months and 2 weeks proposed. Thomas is also a librarian that I met through our MLIS program.
He had been flying a kite and in-between flights we ate his homemade bread and drink water. We watched a bald eagle repeatedly dive into the lake. [...]
Inspired by a prompt from a friend on Facebook, I decided to demystify using (and networking on) Twitter for my fellow librarians. This guide is geared towards librarians but you can mentally find and replace librarian with “profession of choice.”
Step Zero: Why So Serious?
People often worry about Twitter. They fear the [...]
While searching for a library job, I subscribed to a number of RSS feeds, mailing lists, and followed accounts on Twitter. This list is geared towards academic/digital libraries since that was the job I was looking for. As I receive more email listings, I will update this post with other locations that I forgot to [...]
Since the introduction to tabbed browsers, I have been guilt of using the tabs as “read later” bookmarks. Currently my Opera and Chrome browsers are brimming with tabs. In order to finally clear them out, I am going to list every page here so I can finally close some tabs! You might be able to [...]
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