Howdy everyone - Been on this group for a few months now. I have looked at several CMS's and tried to use several to develop a church website. After spending a little bit of time with Drupal and seeing other sites that use it, I am very interested in using it for our church.
We have a graphics guy at our church that can do some custom stuff, my main goal is to learn it a little and be able to put together somewhat of a non-dressed up showcase site for others in the technology ministry at our church, so that I can show them what Drupal can do. Unfortunately, I am not a learning by reading as much by doing, but I am having a real hard time knowing where to start out. I was wondering if on this site, there are any who would be willing to help mentor me a little as I learn some of this myself. My preference is someone who can chat with me a bit in real time (through IM) as I learn, but even someone that can help out a little over email would be great. I am an I.T. person myself, so I'm not looking for someone to do it for me really, I just need someone to help me out a little getting started. Thanks a lot guys!
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I can help a bit...
Hey hipsterdoofus, I'm an IT person, basically just finished the first phase of a project that sounds quite similar to yours. We created a demonstration site for other churches, very stripped down, no custom graphic design (well, actually removed three lines from one of the css files) and no custom programming. Have a look at the result if you want: www.metunited.org
I'm happy to share experiences/lessons learned with you. I don't do IM very much, but I'd be willing to chat on the phone if you want, which may or may not be easy depending on your time zone. (I'm in Toronto, Canada).
great!
Thanks for the offer, I can use whatever help I can get! It may be easiest to email as a way of getting started. As I've said, I really just want to learn how to work with Drupal. Is there a way to exchange emails in here, or I just post it within here? Also, if any others are interested, I'd love to have a variety of sources.
Keep posting here
For my 2-cents worth, can you please keep posting here, I am interested in learning, which i can do if you keep posting here.
~Russ
Podcast
Hey Hipster...
Not sure if you've seen it, but we recently did a 10 episode series on The Geeks and God Podcast about building a church website using Drupal. Maybe that could fill in some gaps for you.
My I...
Can I just chip in there Hipster and suggest you do check out the podcast Bob talks about - the Geeks and God thing is very good! And their podcast is where I picked up the Drupal bug...
Very easy to follow - and very easy to get in touch with if you don't understand!
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Andy Hoyland
http://www.stjb.org.uk
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Andy Hoyland
http://www.stjb.org.uk
Preferred Settings for a Drupal Host?
I posted this on the Drupal version survey but realized that it makes more
sense here ...
Our Host Offers Drupal 5.1 with PHP 4.4.4 & MySql 4.1.22-standard
I observe that 5.5 is the most current stable release and that PHP 5.2 is highly
recommended for ease of upgrade to 6.0 (when released).
Should I ask our server host to upgrade Drupal, PHP, and MySql?
WDYT?
http://thebridgechristianlifecenter.com
Pastor David
urge upgrade
I suggest you try to get upgraded to PHP5.
There are a host of reasons outlined here: http://www.gophp5.org/
Might be silly
Beginner to Drupal .
using TinyMCE 3.3.9.2 for full html.
when adding content Admin ->content add content ->>Basic Page->>
In the preview as well as in the final page I am getting html tags part of the content.
Please advice me how to filter the html tags out.
Ex [b]What[/b] Instead of bold "What"
Try using < and >
Hey, if it's preventing your site from working, it isn't silly to ask. But it would be silly to let the problem keep you snagged just because you thought it might seem silly to ask. We're here to help!
HTML tags belong inside < angular brackets >, not [square brackets]. Use that convention and they'll behave. (You're probably used to phpBB sites, which use a pseudo code in their comment fields.)
By the way, if you are using bold to indicate strong emphasis, the right tag is
<strong></strong>, not<b></b>.The difference is important to accessibility. The "b" tag indicates only what the text should look like — bold. The "strong" tag indicates why that word should take on a different appearance. The default appearance is bold, but technically you can use CSS to define it to be anything that you need it to be under any given condition — and, regardless of what your CSS says it should look like, screen readers will then know to emphasize it strongly, so even people who can't see it will know that's how you want them to understand it.
Just to clarify sabu07, How
Just to clarify sabu07,
How are you making the text "What" bold? Are you physically typing [b] or are you pressing a bold button with tiny mce?
HTML tags
Thanks a lot for the response. I was pressing the button in tiny mice to bet the [b].
It is not just with the [b] any HTML tags even if I enter by myself in the resultant page we can see the HTML tags as such.
In the Tiny Mice editor if the selected Text format is full HTML we can see the desired result. Like here the "What " in bold Paragraph and alignment.
Once you save or try preview the result will be with all the text in single paragraph and HTML tags visible for the user.
I changed the CSS to use " Editor default CSS" in "Home»Administration»Configuration»Content authoring»Wysiwyg profiles»List"
Previously it was "Use Theam CSS"
Once again thanks a lot in assisting me.
Ok so firstly I'm assuming
Ok so firstly I'm assuming you're using Drupal 6. Secondly I'm a bit confused. You talk about [b] but do you really mean < b > with <> triangular brackets? [b] is not a html tag and it is usually used in something called "bbcode" which alot of forum software uses and drupal can use. If you really mean [] then you need to download a different input format that converts bbcode to html. However as you've told me "Full html" works I'm going to assume you actually are using triangular brackets <>.
Now you've selected "full HTML" but really you don't want to use that accept for people you REALLY trust. If you allow full html its possible for people to use javascript to mess with your website or the users on your website. So its best to go back to filtered html. The drupal defaults for filtered html are pretty limited (although I thought they included b). So you'll probably want to add allowed html tags.
Administer -> Site Configuration -> Input formats -> Filtered html -> Configure (might have to do this twice) -> "Allowed HTML tags".
Here you can add other html tags you want to use but its more secure.
Alternatively if you are actually using [b] then there is this module you can use to convert bbcode into html. http://drupal.org/project/bbcode but if you are I'm totally confused as to why full html works.