Filed under “Drupal”

A form from my favorites

brompt-signup
 Above is the signup form from Brompt, the blog reminder service I built a few years ago for undisciplined bloggers like myself. I’m very proud of this form: it’s clear, it contextualizes the data being requested within the functionality of the application, and it drives people to action. There are a few areas for improvement: [...]

Making ReCAPTCHA not suck

 I really like using the Drupal CAPTCHA system with ReCAPTCHA (the one that helps scan in books). Both of them suck in the standard “Drupal makes everything ugly and hard to use by default, but it’s still easier than building something from scratch”. One of ReCaptcha’s problems is that the words are sometimes hard to [...]

Conference notes: managing nonprofit technology projects

 Notes from Rebecca below on managing nonprofit technology projects http://aspirationtech.org/events/mntp-sf http://mntp.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Event_Agenda Becket divx …maybe I’ll clean this up someday. —- !!!Basic Stages of a Project 1. Initiate * define project * talk about start and end points, budget, participants/roles, timeline 2. Plan * defining scope, requirements, use cases 3. Implement 4. Monitor 5. Close *how [...]

Drupal WYSIWYG Editors

 I’m partial to the following WYSIWYG editors for Drupal: WidgEditor — stupid simple TinyMCE — way complicated powerful But Super Capers neither of them work well enough for me to want to use them. The trade-off for using these is that it’s easy to make pretty text, but if you ever need to manually edit, [...]

Unintuitive: check

 CCK’s single checkboxes require a strange configuration in the Allowed Values list: 0 1|Checkbox title

A new look

 Island94.org has undergone some revision today; I hope you noticed. I upgraded Drupal to 4.7 and rethemed the site. Drupal 4.7 adds a lot of really great features, the main one, from a ‘nifty’ perspective is free tagging. This gives a lot more granularity to organizing posts. There is also a lot of nice stuff under [...]