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A Formal Introduction from Cathnet
Hello, this is DJ Ortley (lutra.) I've yet to have an opportunity to introduce either Cathnet or myself.
Cathnet was started a number of years ago to try and do basically the same thing that this site does, which is to create a central home for open source Catholic software and technologies. While Cathnet has been around for much longer, we've not really been able to spend much time on our site, and a quick trip to the latest incarnation of our website will show this.
Looking through OpensourceCatholic, which...
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Stupid Flash – Making Menus Appear Over Flash Video/Content
If you are using mega menus, like we use on archstl.org, then you need to be careful when posting Flash content to your website; if the content is anywhere around one of the mega menu flyouts, then the flash content will cover the menu in certain browsers (notably, IE and older FireFox versions).
To fix this, add the following code to your flash object embed:
Inside the <object> tags, with your other <param> tags:
Inside the <embed> tag, with the other value:key pairs:
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Set a View's Context Inside an Organic Group
A very simple way to allow a view to display as if it were a page in an organic group on your Drupal site: Simply paste the code below in your view's Header or Footer, using the PHP Code input format.
Note: the node ID inside node_load() must be set to the group into which you'd like the view to display. To get this to function perfectly (as of OG 2.1), you might need to apply the patch in this issue on drupal.org: Group theme doesn't display on Views that...
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Google's New Open Font Library
Reposted from Life is a Prayer.com:
Continue readingToday Google announced they'd help advance web typography by hosting open-sourced fonts on their CDN, and by giving the code to easily embed fonts on websites on a new website, the Google Font Directory.
It was amazingly simple: just copy the <link> code and paste it in your template's header, then set any element on your page to use the Google-provided font(s). I started using OFL Sorts Mill Goudy TT, and I like the look (except for the lower-case y, which seems...
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Don't Neglect Your print.css file!
I just spent a few hours working on making a better print.css file for the Archdiocese of St. Louis' website, and, imho, it was time very well spent.
In a meeting just last week with the St. Louis Review staff, I noticed that three different people on staff had printed out pages from archstl.org, and those printed pages looked like junk. I had neglected spending much time with the Archdiocese's print styling (in a print.css file) when I originally designed the site, and I decided it was time to work...
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Post Photos to Your Drupal Site from the iPad
Over on my personal blog, I write about how to post photos from the iPad to ImageFields on a Drupal site. I intend to do so quite a bit this weekend on my visit to New York City (this will be my first trip without a laptop—yikes!).
I basically use Dropbox as a middleman to get a URL for the photo, which I can pass to FileField Sources so my Drupal site can use the photo. Unfortunately, for the time being, Mobile Safari doesn't support file select fields :-(
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Vatican Announces Upgrade of Network Infrastructure
It looks like the Vatican is going optical! Here are the details, from CathNews Asia:
Continue readingThe Vatican City State has announced a major upgrade to its communications infrastructure including fibre optics links to other Vatican sites including the pontifical villa at Castelgandolfo.
The Governorate of the Vatican City State and Telecom Italia announced the signing of a contract for the installation of the first nucleus of the “Integrated Communication Infrastructure for Vatican City State”, VIS reports.
This consists in a broadband IP network capable of voice, data and video...