April Meeting Notes and Related Items
This is a list of all the related resources/links that were mentioned during this month's meetup.
Mark showed the use of taxonomy access control on the XPrize website. Below is the link to the lullabot article on using taxonomy access modules to control permissions for node creation.
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/private_forums_in_drupal_forum_access_v...
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Markup and HTML Editor
Markup and HTML Editor Links
Blog post regarding the different wysiwyg editors: http://www.drupal4hu.com/node/144
Drupal modules which allow you to use a markdown/wiki/textile type markup insteaad HTML: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/63
Security Links
http://drupal.org/security
http://drupal.org/writing-secure-code
http://drupal.org/coding-standards
Theme Workshop Resources and Notes
I told a few people last night about a write up I had done on some of the material that we covered at the last training workshop. http://boldsource.com/articles/drupal-theming-and-site-building-workshop...
Re: Blog post regarding different wysiwyg editors
chx just posted an announcement, "jQuery WYSIWYG editor for Drupal released." The WYSIWYG editor is HTMLBox.
acquia's carbon wysiwyg-editor
If you make money creating Drupal websites, it may make sense for you to check out (and chime in) about Drupal wysiwyg editors here:
http://acquia.com/projects/wiki/carbon/wysiwyg-editor
Bitnami - Drupal packages ready to go
http://bitnami.org - grab OS specific installers for Drupal and other open-source projects.
NOTE: If you run WAMP/MAMP/XAMP/XAMPP, etc. already, then I wouldn't recommend installing any BitNami package without reading how to not mess up your current local dev environment(s).
SEO
SEO Checklist module - http://drupal.org/project/seo_checklist - contains lists and links to every SEO module that you'll hear about.
NicEdit and DrupalEd and maintenance mode
NicEdit is a WYSIWYG editor that works with both D5 and D6. I like it because it's only 35k in size (compared with FCKeditor at 250k and TinyMCE at 400k).
http://drupal.org/project/nicedit
I think TinyMCE still has the most going for it, though, in terms of popularity (i.e. community support), configurability and advanced image management. There's also a cool TinyMCE Automatic Configuration module:
http://drupal.org/project/tinymce_autoconf
DrupalEd is a distribution of Drupal that's geared towards educational sites with working groups, online courseware, etc. and it includes a bunch of modules that you'd otherwise need to research, download and install yourself. An older list of included modules can be found at http://drupal.org/node/137745#comment-223736 but there may have been changes since DrupalEd was originally released.
http://drupaled.org
Finally, don't forget that if you put your site in maintenance mode (or otherwise hide your User login block -- thanks, Crystal!) and then realize that there's no obvious way to log in again, you can still log in as an administrator by manually going to http://example.com/user (or http://example.com/?q=user if you don't have Clean URLs enabled). This is one of the most common support requests I see in the forums.