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Configuration of Our Website

2006, December 10 - 1:30am — Dave Allen Barker Jr

This is a log of the customizations made to create our site.

Set Date & Time
Administer, Site configuration, Date and time
Change site name to "620 Peachtree"
Administer, Site configuration, Site information, Name
Enable Picture support
  1. Enable "Picture support" (Administer, User management, User settings, Pictures)
  2. Add the picture guidelines, "<br/><strong>Please provide a photo representative of yourself</strong> so others may recognize you both online and in person."
  3. Enable "User pictures in comments" (Administer, Site building, Themes)
Contact (Email from user profiles)
  1. Administer, Site building, Modules
Profiles (User information)
  1. Administer, Site building, Modues, Profile
  2. (not sure yet how we want to configure them…)
Upload (module in core)
  1. Enable (Administer, Modules, Upload)
  2. Note: Content types automatically add Attachments question set to Enable
  3. Role permissions automatically added: upload and view uploads. Set as appropriate (I set anonymous and authenticated users able to view, and content creators to upload for now).
  4. Increase per user file size and total to 8M and 800M (Site configuration, File uploads)
Remove Default "Story" content type
Because the "story" type begins functionally the same as the "page" type (both are provided by the "node" module), and we do not know yet if we can put the two to use in uique ways, just delete the "story" type for now and leave only "page" (all posts to this point have been "page"s). We can always add it back or make others as needed.
Taxonomy Access Control

Allow selective role access based on taxonomy terms by installing the non-core Taxonomy Access Control

  1. Install as instucted by installation instructions
Comments

Change to:

  • Oldest First
  • Anonymous posters may leave their contact information
Input formats

I banged my head against the wall trying to allow authenticated users to edit content. It failed because I hadn't let them use the input format I'd created the content in.

  1. Add "authenticated users" role to those allowed "Full HTML" input (Administer, Site configuration, Input formats)
Image Support
  1. Install the Drupal Image module
  2. Enable the Image module. For now, leave the attach and gallery modules not enabled.
  3. Increase php's upload_max_filesize because images are often >2M. Make the modification in .htaccess (in 620/drupal).
  4. Set role permissions to allow image node creation by authenticated users and viewing original by anon and auth
  5. Edit taxonomies to allow use on image content type
Move sidebar to the right

I think a left sidebar is an obstruction to content, so it should be moved to the right.

  1. Administer, Site building, Blocks: navigation & user login
Search
  1. Enable Search module
  2. Set permissions
  3. Show a search box (Administer, Site building, Blocks)
Event Activation
  1. Download and install the Event module
  2. Enable Basic Event (and Event it depends on)
  3. Set permissions to allow event creation
  4. Edit Vocabularies for use with type Event
  5. On Administer, Events, Events Overview:
    • Change default view to list
    • "Content type filter controls" to "Only show content type filter control when content type filter view is requested"
Subscriptions Activation
  1. Download and install the Subscriptions module
  2. Enable module and set permission
  3. In Subscriptions setting, enable "Show Subscriptions users menu on main menu" and "Set all users to "autosubscribe" by default"
Statistics Activation
Enable the Statistics core module