Cue Cue Cue

brad — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:16:11 +0200

I have spent a good portion of the last three weeks working on a Drupal based news site for running Cue Online. I am very happy with the results (but there are more features needed!!). Drupal for the win hey...It has been a good learning experience. I have set it up to handle podcasts and embedded video (hosted by myvideo). I dig the fact that it looks reasonable in a cellphone browser (just because of sensible html ;). We have been populating the website with content from the cue newspaper, content from the CueTV crew, and podcasts from the CueRadio team. Our students are gathering content, and we have some guests from all over africa (part of HANA), and the Netherlands (not the place between a person's legs, but the place in europe that some call Holland) in the form of students and staff from the Utrecht School of Journalism. They are also running a blog called FestivalBlog. My favourite aspect is the daily lunch post.

It is done

brad — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:40:49 +0200

And so it is done. I have finally set up the whijo.net site to run Drupal CMS. I was dilly Dallying for a long time, and trying to write my own Django powered website, but after mucking around with Drupal on two projects I decided it was well worth the time, and it will give me pretty much the same flexibility as a Django powered site, with significantly less development time ;). I wrote an article about why I dig drupal on the NML website. I have spent about a day working on this site (I had the advantage that I have been reviewing modules for the upcoming Cue online) , between family things, and eating. I took a theme called amadou and pimped it up a little (I added the bottom bar, with the three floating columns, and mucked around with spacings/theming of a few elements). My favourite Drupal pimps at the moment are pictured below:

Admin-menu and Autosave. You can see both of them running in this screenshot, the admin menu sits at the top with CSS based drop down menus (and I have resized it a bit, and placed it strategically to make it look like it has a drop shadow because of the header background), and autosave is the "Autosaved at 10:49:56 pm:"