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pwolanin's picture

see this massive new handbook section: http://drupal.org/node/120612

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Yeah, I've asked nancyw to

uNeedStuff's picture

Yeah, I've asked nancyw to join us over here. She is the one who made a few suggestions on my Basic Understanding but I'm not sure a Wiki page is the best way to offer suggested changes ... I'm sure we'll figure something out.

Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.

Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.

Yes, but how do you like it?

nancydru's picture

Do you think that book is useful? Does it fill a need?

Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)

I have found it very helpful

uNeedStuff's picture

I have found it very helpful in a number of ways. I took a big gulp! and installed the whole server thing on my computer today just based on what you have shared. So YES! to both. I don't think there can be too much information ... well that's not true there is a ton of information at drupal.org just need a better way to lay it out I think.

Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.

Shari
I may be different,
may I never be indifferent.

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at the bottom of http://drupal.org/node/120647

doesn't this cause problems:

Go for it. You can now start the browser and enter http://databasename.

From reading in the forum, I thought a site name needs to be in the form x.y (containing at least one dot) for cookies to work right under 5.x with the standard settings.php?

Nope, works fine for me

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This is a localhost site. And cookies get posted just fine.

Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)

also

pwolanin's picture

Overall it's great, so the criticisms I'm making here are just minor/trivial things (I'm a critical person by nature...).


a comment on the example HTML code, such as on: http://drupal.org/node/120646

you have stuff like:

<P>&nbsp;</P>
<P>If you are unable to find something on our new site or have a question about our site or services feel free to <A HREF="contact">contact us</A>.</P>
<P>&nbsp;</P>
<P>--Webmistress</P>

which is problematic for two reasons:

1) current standard HTML only uses lowercase for tags

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends lowercase tags in their HTML 4 recommendation, and XHTML (the next generation HTML) demands lowercase tags.

2) relative URLs should have a leading slash.

Hmm

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1) That's very interesting since all HTML generators I've used (e.g. Dreamweaver) create uppercase tags. I personally prefer to see them that way (they stand out better), but am largely getting out of that practice. But I would encourage you to post this note on that page.

2) That's something strange I've seen in Drupal. In most places, yes, you need the leading slash, but in some places you don't. I haven't figured out the differences yet. And I even have a section in the book that suggests the leading slash. :-(

Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)

link depends on URL settings?

pwolanin's picture

Well, it may depend on URL settings. To be safe (for this sort of admin page), it may be better to use PHP format andl()

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For newbies, I'd prefer to keep things as simple and "vanilla" as possible.

Nancy W.
now running 4 sites on Drupal so far
Drupal Cookbook (for New Drupallers)

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