Collaborative Site check - please
Collaborative Site check - please
I would like help with a new drupal site from those here that are CoD subscribers that know their way around the Drupal program, perhaps some you have time and can advise as well.
Even if you don’t use Drupal, I would appreciate your comments regarding both the design from a technical and a content analysis. I have it installed at www.clnews.org/drupal/ Please take a look.
My goal is to build an online community of labor activists, using the theme or notion of "stories". I'm totally blown away by the concept of taxonomy. Yet, necessarily the site must be designed with a minimum of classes or categories as starting points to hang any submitted stories on. Can anyone discuss this with me?
So the problem I am asking for help is a discussion on both a technical design evaluation and an overall site narrative design evaluation. Anybody interested?
With Respect and Cheers,
Tony Budak
CLNews: Solidarity Action Stories
Hey You All,
CL Action Stories received a Solidarity Story at the new site.
It’s a FIRST for the new web site.
So come on over, visit the site at http://www.clnews.org/drupal/ Tell us about your personal experiences in the workplace.
You can help the Solidarity Movement by letting us know how you and your co-workers are fighting to keep their jobs and dignity.
"educate, agitate, and organize,"
With Respect and Cheers,
Tony Budak, CLNews Admin.
Is there anybody out there?
Hey, what's with you folks, seems like here is a request for "discussing and developing solutions that allow unions to realize the full potential of Internet technology" that is exactly in line with the focus of CoD and nothing happens but the cold sholder. What, where and how does one get some feedback on the site, http://www.clnews.org/drupal/
Asking again; Collaborative Site check - please
I would like help with a new drupal site from those here that are CoD subscribers that know their way around the Drupal program, perhaps some you have time and can advise as well.
Even if you don’t use Drupal, I would appreciate your comments regarding both the design from a technical and a content analysis. I have it installed at www.clnews.org/drupal/ Please take a look.
My goal is to build an online community of labor activists, using the theme or notion of "stories".
I'm totally blown away by the concept of taxonomy. Yet, necessarily the site must be designed with a minimum of classes or categories as starting points to hang any submitted stories on. Can anyone discuss this with me?
So the problem I am asking for help is a discussion on both a technical design evaluation and an overall site narrative design evaluation. Anybody interested?
Cheers,
Tony
I wasn't notified in the changes at this website.
Hello Tony,
I follow this website by RSS feed. Since your post wasn't on the front page I didn't see it. I came here to post a humor peice, since I thought this site was inactive. Was I suprised to find there have been many comments, (can I be pointed in the direction of an rss feed for those?). Equally surprised to find your frustrated post!
I think that categories and folksonomy (taking taxonomy into our own hands) are amazing. I think that the wiki I am working on, and wanting many people to try would benifit you and the wiki to try and at least develop the idea there. LaborUnionOrganizing.info wiki
Best, Mark
Access denied
What is that about?
LaborUnionOrganizing.info wiki
some feedback
Why make it accessible to registered users only? Seems like an unnecessary barrier to entry. If you want to push people to register, then make it a requirement in order to create content or post comments.
Light blue (links color) on green background is very hard to read at least on my browser (Firefox). I'd lighten up the background and maybe change the color scheme (you can do this by editing the html template, I believe).
Who and where are you? Need a prominent About CLS link. I'd also add some basic info to the header (maybe using the form field for slogan, or adding a line).
Mission statement needs to clarify how this site differs from CLNews. What exactly do you want people to do on this site? Is it just for stories? Where does the forum fit in?
Use the menus item in the administration section to create menus that will show people what's on the site, you can put items (or nodes) in the menus, but you can also put in taxonomy items, which then lead the user to a list of everything that is in that category.
Too many forums? It all depends on the traffic, but seems like a lot to me. One thing that is done very well on Uncharted.ca is the posting of articles on the front page with links to a forum for front page articles. It helps generate action in the forum. Then you can see which topics merit a separate forum.
Need to have links on forum page, near top so we can get back to your home page.
The list of Guidelines for an Efffective Rank-and-File site that I posted here and as a wiki may be useful to you, too. Let me know if it is. I'll see if I come up with more feedback, but that's something for now.
Collaborative Site check - please
Hi Matt and Mark,
Thank you so much for the feedback, which is very helpful in allowing me to understand more about how this CMS works. I really appreciate it. Give me some time to follow up and I will get back to you.
"educate, agitate, and organize,"
With Respect and Cheers,
Tony
drupal security issue
I don't know where if anywhere is a good place to mention this
cross site scripting issue:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21021/
http://drupal.org/security
So the current versions of drupal are 4.6.8 and 4.7.2 (on 7/12/06)
A problem is if your installation was installed by fantastico,
which is very typical of hosted web sites.
Then it can't be upgraded until fantastico gets around to it.
This is a problem with all LAMP products that there's a constant
stream of security issues causing upgrades. sigh. There just was
a requirement to upgrade joomla as another example.
Speaking of drupal and fantastico tho I tripped upon this problem:
http://www.netenberg.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4468
Anyone who is going to try to install drupal 4.7 via fantastico should
look at that article before anything is done.
The conclusion:
"You need to change the default collation of MySQL from swedish to UTF8 or western. You can do this via root phpmyadmin or by setting it in /etc/my.cnf ".
That problem combined with finding out drupal needs to be upgraded
has once again put my drupal experiment on the back burner.
PS an interesting debate over "stack" performance:
http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6492047053.html
Personally I think it's about time that open source stops snubbing
windows and the more favorable publicity for WAMP the better for
the genre as a whole. (And if apache would stop goofing around requiring people to compile apache on windows just to
enable ssl that would really help! That is very time consuming. IIS has no such requirement, giving IIS a big edge in the windows web server realm.)
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1983367,00.asp