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• Mar 25, 2010

  New Drupal Book - Drupal 6 Performance Tips

  Drupal 6 Performance Tips, by Trevor James and TJ Holowaychuk, is a newly-published title from Packt Publishing aimed at Drupal beginners, developers, designers, and webmasters who utilize the Drupal content management system to create robust websites. It provides crucial performance-related information for Drupal users of all experience levels, including module contributors, webmasters who simply configure and maintain Drupal websites, and even themers.

  The book contains basic and advanced topics on Drupal performance that will appeal both to the Drupal novice and the advanced user or developer. With this book...

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• Mar 19, 2010

  OSV Asks: How effectively does your parish's website connect?

  It is not good enough anymore to simply 'be present' on the web, just as it is not good enough (nor was it ever good enough) to simply 'be present' at Holy Mass.

  Catholics should make it a point to engage, to connect, and to assist others in their faith formation—online, at the mall, in the home, and at their Churches.

  The Our Sunday Visitor issue from March 14, 2010 asks, "How effectively does your parish's website connect?" The answer to this question, for almost all parish websites...

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• Mar 3, 2010

  Drupal Gardens Beta - A Giant Leap in Community Building...

  

  I was just invited to the Drupal Gardens private beta today, and I have to say, it's a leap forward in terms of building out quick, beautiful, and well-designed websites. But it takes things many, many, many steps further than a simple Wordpress or Blogger site.

  Drupal Gardens is built with Drupal at its core, and every site instance you set up is basically an entire Drupal website (and it's completely exportable, so if your needs grow beyond the Drupal Gardens garden, you can re-plant on another server). This means...

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• Mar 2, 2010

  LDAP help

  Hi, I'm helping create a new website for our youth group which is dedicated to developing open source software amongst many other projects. We are shifting to a Wordpress site (which we have pretty much completed) but want to base ourselves on LDAP so we can run concurrent CMSs. I'm wondering if anyone can help us with the LDAP side of things? If interested to help please email rjzaar at yahoo dot com.

  
  God Bless

  Rob

   

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• Feb 22, 2010

  PrayerCenter (using Drupal)

  The Archdiocese of Saint Louis' website has always had a very widely-used and useful prayer request functionality. Anyone in the world can submit a prayer request, and every prayer request is moderated and prayed for by contemplative sisters in the Archdiocese.

  
  The old prayer request form

  The website first had an online contact form, and all prayer requests were submitted by email. However, after some time, this got to be quite a burden (hundreds of requests were coming in every day!). The Archdiocese used a Joomla! component, PrayerCenter, to...

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• Feb 22, 2010

  Archdiocese of Saint Louis' Upgraded Website

  In early 2009, it was determined that the Archdiocese of Saint Louis needed to upgrade its website, mostly for security concerns. After investigating a move from Joomla 1.0.x to Joomla 1.5.x, the Archdiocese determined it would be more cost effective and a more future proof decision to migrate the over 49 individual Joomla sites that comprised www.archstl.org into a single Drupal installation.

  

  This upgrade/migration provides many benefits, not the least of which are a better end-user experience, a better administrative experience, and much improved page load and search indexing performance....

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• Feb 20, 2010

  Drupal ImageCache - Display Alt Text as Caption

  While building the Archdiocese of Saint Louis' website (launching Feb. 22, 2010), I needed an easy and quick way to allow users to caption images, without much hassle. On the old Joomla version of the website, users would have to upload an image, then insert it, then click on it, then click another button to add an image caption, set border properties, add padding, etc.

  To cut through most of that mess, I set up an ImageField with Drupal's Insert module, which helps save a few clicks (and eliminates...

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