Beginner Documentation
Beginner Documentation Group
A group dedicated to presenting simple beginner documentation that is clear and concise that can become part of the formal documentation. This group gives us a place to talk about what it would take and allows for review prior to submitting. This is not a group for support.
Drupal Code +Test Sprint Beginners Guide
THIS WIKI PAGE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
In helping with LA Drupal's D7 Code+Test Sprint event, I noticed there's some easy points that help newbies feel progressive. There are many ways to help at a Code+Test sprint, and here are the ways that helped us in Los Angeles.
- Make sure you have a Drupal.org account, with "Contributor links" turned on in your profile. This will expose a sidebar block linking to areas of interest for contributors. For example: "Patches to review (D7)" is what most people click on to find patches needing review.
Adobe.com Drupal article: Using Drupal themes with Dreamweaver CS4
The second article in my Drupal series for Adobe.com is out now. This article covers Drupal Themes, Dreamweaver tip(s) when working with Drupal, and shows off the Drupal Theme Starter desktop software.
"Understand the fundamentals of a Drupal theme and how Dreamweaver CS4 helps designers produce these themes."
Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_themes_with_dwcs...
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_themes_with_dwcs4.html
LA Drupal videos galore (DrupalCampLA + Meetings)
For over a year LA Drupal has been recording our meetings and many of our events. View the videos online... http://drupal-la.blip.tv
Subscribe to our video podcast... http://drupal-la.blip.tv/rss (available directly on iTunes too)
We provide these videos for free for people to learn Drupal of course. Over the next handful of weeks you will see us release videos from our meetings and DrupalCampLA '08. Learn the basics of Drupal, theme design, module development, advanced views, Services module (Flash + Drupal), and many, many more topics all relating to Drupal.
Follow us on twitter... www.twitter.com/ladrupal
Adobe.com article: Building a Drupal site in 10 steps
I just saw my latest Drupal article is now published on Adobe.com, and this is the first in a series I have produced.
"Read on to see how you can set up a Drupal site in just 10 steps. Learn about adding content, altering menus, modules, and themes, and how to get your site ready for search engines and users."
Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_site_in_10_steps...
Post your proposed session for DrupalCampLA 2008
This is easy and quick, nothing fancy, no voting - just post your session idea (title) and your name/contact info and show up to present that day! We have sessions open from 10am-2pm each day (Saturday and Sunday) and each session should plan for 45 minutes each.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/12528 (edit wiki page)
If you can't see or edit the wiki page, be sure to join our group which may be required for editing the wiki page.
Drupal Task Force | Ursa Minor
World Class Social media team seeks reliable team to extend our current work force. Applicants should have excellent communication and strong documentation skills. Must be able to meet once or twice per week in Oakland or San Rafael.
We are looking for several individuals to handle various portions of development.
We are looking for design consultants, documentation specialists, technical consultants, module developers, theme developers, installation techs and Quality Control personnel.
Scalability Presentation Notes - SFDUG July 2008
I'm posting this as a wiki for others to add notes or links - based on Neil's presentation we attended. I would suggest conversation / disagreement / further discussion about the recommendations herein happen elsewhere - i.e. in the comments, etc. :-)
My notes are now up -Neil
Notes on Scalability
Neil Drumm
SF Drupal User's Group
July 14, 2008
OVERVIEW
Should the Drupal.org Menu-Bar have a Glossary Item, that link to a Glossary and/or Drupal-Dictionary and/or Vocabolary Page?
Article - for a new Drupal Documentation Project
Hi All,
Just after being denied for the proposal of a new Group entry entitled "Documentation Task Force" i was referred
that here is the best place for my efforts:
For those of the Group who does not know my person and motivations, i will suggest to read some posting I already
have contributed on drupal.org to focus on the big problem to get oriented in the Drupal.org ---- DRUPAL HANDBOOKS.
Is GFDL Compatible with GPL?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License says that GFDL is the counterpart for documentation to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl, so I'm wondering if they are compatible, and if documentation published under GFDL may be packaged with modules in the Drupal.org repository?
Thanks,
Aaron Winborn
http://aaronwinborn.com/
Few Documentation Clarification Requested -- Languages
I really dont know the answer to this, and I notice its not in the Language Documentation.
Sessions on Getting Help From The Community Wanted For Drupalcon 2008
My name is Matthew Pare and I'm a Co-Chair for the "Community and Core" track for Drupalcon Boston 2008. Over the last couple of weeks we have been planning and brainstorming to make Drupalcon Boston 2008 the best Drupalcon to date! One of our recommended track session topics is "Getting Help From The Community" and since your viewing this post on the Beginner Documentation group I thought you would be excellent candidates for submitting sessions on the topic.
URL Modules
I've put this together for URLs & and Clean URLs. I'd like to see any other add-on modules under it as well following the same WHEWF (What, How, Example, Why, Further reading.) I will be working on PathAuto tomorrow. I have to stop doing this stuff or I'm never going to get my site up LOL.
URL = Uniform Resource Locator. The text you see, or type in your browser address bar. i.e., http://www.example.com http:// is the protocol your browser uses to find www.example.com which is where the data lives.
Administer >> Site Configuration >> Clean URLs
Terminology
I finished up the Drupal Simply page (what, how, why with suggested additional reading) today over at the dojo site and promoted it to a book. However when I was re-reading it and trying for beginner eyes I began to wonder if people would understand the words display engine and tried to find what Drupalers called it and couldn't find anything other then Theme. Does anyone know what this part of the system is called other then Theme? I am going to replace display engine with theme engine, but wondered if there was something else it was called.
Shari
What I'd like to see
I've spent my hour and now have to move on to paying work ;-) lol what I like to see simplified is:
Node, what is it and what does it do for you?
Taxonomy, what does it do for you? Also need to cover that it's under Category in the Admin area
Breadcrumb, what is it and what does it do for you?
Creating content. How, and what you can do with it after it's created.
viewfield module
This module allows someone to include on a page of content (node) a search
and display of additional content from a preexisting view.
e.g., you have a content type for CD’s, they include a CCK field for artists. You could create a content type for the artist and include on that content type a viewfield allowing Drupal to find and present any of the CD content types that belong to that artist so you would end up with a content page view of:
Artist information <~~ This would come from the other fields that were on the created content.
Using drupaldojo.org
Thanks to Drupal Dojo, we can use the www.drupaldojo.org to hash out the working and how to present the book (pages). Once we have something here, we can move it to the Wiki so that anyone can offer edits. Once something is in solid form we can add it to the Book. Please post here 1st so people know something has been added and also this is also were we can attract newer members so we need to stay within Drupal
Shari
Just came over
Hi all add1sun, invited me over to co-habitat with ya all on the drupaldojo.org I'm not sure how this will fit in as I'm aiming for simplification vs technical information. I'd love to play around and hopefully others will fix what I'm missing and will give feedback. I've just started over at http://groups.drupal.org/beginner-documentation so I'm not sure who else is going to play with me, but I'll keep plugging along.
Not sure if you want to add a book, or if I should just start up in the wiki area.
Thanks for the invite!
Shari
CCK Widget
What is a CCK Widget?
The final user form (create content) for inputting data (site content) is created using widgets. The admin creates a content type or node (user form), by adding fields via CCK. The admin chooses what widget (field container) to use to collect that data (content). e.g. you want the user to put a number in the field so you select the integer/text widget. Each data type, and the way it can be entered is a widget.
