[Lancaster] Lancaster Library

[Richard Robinson]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 05:13:01PM +0000, andy baxter wrote:
> Richard Robinson wrote:
> >
> > You said you'd been doing some stuff with Drupal ? I wonder if that might be
> > a worthwhile subject ?
> >
> >   
> Could be, though it's not linux, it's a CMS (but is free software and 
> can be run on linux).
> > ...
> If you want to theme it, look at the Zen theme which is a bare bones 
> theme designed to make it easy for people to modify it to suit what they 
> want.

Yes, I have it, ta, that's where I'll start when I get onto that layer. For
now, what I'm enjoying is the way I can just write php and make it work, and
leave all that for a different time/mindset.

> > It could be useful for people with a range of different approaches &
> > interests, is what I mean.
> 
> The only thing is I wouldn't yet recommend it for someone with no coding 
> experience. If all goes well, you might be able to build a simple drupal 
> site without having to look at code, but to do more complex things or to 
> fix odd problems which come up, you need to have some level of 
> understanding of what the underlying code is doing.

Ah, ok.

> What might be good is a session on building websites using CMSs, looking 
> at drupal as well as joomla and wordpress.

An even better idea, yes. I'd be interested in that. (I could, at some
point, talk about the database-of-traditional-tunes website I'm using the
Drupal for, but that might be a bit nerdy for the faint of heart, and
anyway, not until it's fit to be seen).


I don't see the 'but it's not linux' as much of a drawback. For Linux
people, it's (I'm suggesting, anyway) potentially interesting, and if other
people are doing the same on other platforms, they might come too and be
impressed to discover they could do it in Linux too ...




While I've mentioned it, Andy - do you have the hang of Drupal's system of
nodes ? I've not used it, or looked at it; I'm just acquiring data from
outside and having the php display it, but I suspect there might be
advantages if I reworked it to put that code inside their node callbacks (or
integrate it otherwise) - is that something you can comment on ?

-- 
Richard Robinson
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem