In this tutorial, we will create a single page that displays information on when the site was updated. We will also add a menu item to the Main Menu called Site Update Info.

I recently updated a client’s site from Drupal 6.17 to 6.20. I wanted to keep track of the dates that I had performed site updates. I created a site.txt file and saved it in the root folder. The text file looks like this:

1. Building Drupal modules isn’t as hard as it sounds. You don’t need to be an advanced PHP programmer or hard-core Drupal dev to create custom modules. In this short tutorial, I will show you how to build your first Drupal module. This tutorial is aimed at web designers and other non-programmers. You do need to have experience in building Drupal websites and knowledge of basic PHP is helpful.

Kathy Chavez of www.KappaLuppa.com and Katy of www.SeascapeWebDesign.com and www.myDrupal.ca are organizing a Drupal study group to learn how to build custom Drupal modules. This group is open to anyone and is focussed on web designers and site builders and other non-prgrammers. It helps if you have basic PHP knowledge and you do need experience in building Drupal sites. See our posting here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/113274. Leave a comment and you will be subscribed to be notified of further comments.

1. Energetic - this is my all-time favourite! Great for prototyping blog style and 2 column brochure sites
2. Wilderness - excellent green theme for nature or environmental type website

I have upgraded this site from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and installed a new theme. I will be writing Drupal Training tutorials and articles here in the new year. Please contact me let me know what topics you are interested in learning more about.

I'm glad to be back and hope to see you here often!

Katy,
www.mydrupal.ca
Drupal Training & Tutorials

My apologies for not updating my blog here. I am now writing Drupal training tips at my company website, http://www.seascapewebdesign.com/blog. Hope to see you there!

Here are some new Drupal Training Tips:

Before you launch your Drupal site

How to Transfer your Drupal site from one server to another

Happy Holidays from Katy and SeascapeWebDesign.com

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