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Sample Business Directory: http://www.fortlangley.com/biz-directory

FortLangley.com requested that we redesign their existing business directory website built with HTML. They wanted to be able to edit the site content and add new listings themselves. They have 100 businesses in their BIA who needed User Accounts and Business Listings. Some non-BIA members also need Business Listings.

I used Acquia Drupal bundle to set up a basic Drupal website. (www.acquia.com) - It consists of Drupal core as well as a group of modules including Views and CCK.

A. Modules used
1. CCK
2. Views

Vancouver Drupal User Group – June 24, 2010

This month we have two presentations: A Content Deployment Workflow Your Client Can Use presented by Owen Loy and Katherine Bailey of Work [at] Play; and Project Management With Open Atrium with Steve Krueger of The Jibe Multimedia.

I couldn’t make it to the meeting this month but I was able to watch it online via live streaming. It worked out really well. And I also got to chat with other viewers while we were watching.

Here’s a brief description of the Deploy module;

A new project I'm working is upgrading www.Fightwriter.com. It has 2500 articles about boxing. The original site was created in Drupal 4.5 and will be upgraded to Drupal 6.

See my blog post at http://www.seascapewebdesign.com/blog/keep-your-website-healthy-and-secu...

At first I didn't know how to determine what version of Drupal the current site is in. It does not have a CHANGELOG.txt file. Or a Drupal version constant like Drupal 5 and 6 has.

It's been one month since I returned from DrupalCon San Francisco. It's time for a Drupal 7 update. What's new in Drupal-land?

1. Drupal 7 Alpha 5 was released May 23rd. Download and test it today!
http://drupal.org/drupal-7.0-alpha5

2. On May 18th, there were 80 critical bugs left to be fixed in Drupal 7. All Critical Bugs must be fixed before Drupal 7 can be released. So following the number of Critical Bugs is like a countdown to Drupal 7 Beta release.
http://twitter.com/Dries/status/14223251289

I was at a Surrey Drupal Users Group meeting and I asked How can I modify the title of the default Drupal contact form? Darren suggested that I create my own custom contact form using the module called Webform.(http://drupal.org/project/webform) That way I can save all the submitted data in the database for future reference. And I can customize the name of the form plus take advantage of other customizations.

The benefits of creating custom contact form using Webform module.
1. All data submitted is saved in your database for future reference.

I'm looking forward to attending DrupalCon San Francisco, April 19-21

Keynote: "The State of Drupal" 1:30pm, Monday, April 19th

Dries Buytaert, Drupal Project Lead

Dries Buytaert will give his bi-annual State of Drupal talk in the beginning of DrupalCon SF, where he'll discuss where Drupal is and where it is going. In particular, he'll discuss Drupal 7, usability, the Drupal.org redesign, and other developments to Drupal.

More info: http://sf2010.drupal.org/

Lisa from North Vancouver emailed me this question:

Q. I have noticed on the two Drupal sites I've developed so far that the universal contact form draws a great deal of spam email. I've tried the captcha module, using the image captcha as well as the mathematical question version. Neither of these approaches have stopped or prevented the influx of spam occurrences. I was wondering how you approach your clients contact forms for this issue?

And here is my response:

Come join Katy, Creative Director of www.SeascapeWebDesign.com for a practical presentation - Drupal Design to Theme

Katy will be covering the basics of Drupal Theming starting with your .PSD (Photoshop file), creating a CSS Layout, and converting it to a genuine Drupal 6 theme. CSS tips and using Drupal starter themes will be covered as well. Bring your questions and theming tips to share for the discussion that will follow Katy's presentation.

Please RSVP if you'd like to join us at http://www.meetup.com/surrey-drupal

The first few times I installed the Admin Role module, I wasn't able to get it working. It's a great little helper module that creates an Admin role that is automatically assigned all the permissions to any new modules that are installed. Note the update.php will still only work for the "real" admin (user #1). Here's how to get it working properly:

1. Install Admin Role module and enable on the Site Building > Modules page under Administration

2. Go to User Management > User Roles and create a Site Admin role

Yesteday, my Drupal website alerted me to the news that Drupal core had been updated to 6.16. So I was looking forward to the day that the new Acquia Drupal bundle would be released. I visited www.acquia.com this morning and saw that it had been released yesterday. I wonder why I didn't get a message announcing this new release? I'm on their sales mailing list. I signed up for the free support subscription they were offering in their first year. Since that expired Dec. 31st 2009, I expected to still get notices of the new releases but I didn't get one.