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DATE: 01 May 2010
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TOTAL: 7hrs


1. Continued watching Drupal Essential Training from Lynda.com
Blogs
•Drupal allows members to keep blogs. But you can allow only specified users.
•To turn on, go to Administer > Site Building > Modules > enable the Blog module > Save Configuration.
•To allow users to create and edit blogs, go to Administer > User Management > Permissions > enable users > Save Permissions.
•Blogs allow comments.

Forums
•Forums are like conversations in bulletin boards. It is a threaded, open discussion among users.
•To turn on forums, go to Administer > Site Building > Modules > enable Forums module > Save Configuration.
•Remember to alter Permissions if you want users to allow them to create forums.
•Drupal’s Forum Hierarchy
oForum Module
•Containers
•Categories
•Topics
•Comments


Polls
•Polls give you an option for multiple questions.
•To turn on polls, go to Administer > Site Building > Modules > enable Poll module > Save Configuration.
•Remember to alter Permissions, Administer > User Management > enable users > Save Permissions.
•To create a poll, go to Create Content > Poll > fill up the necessary fields > Save.
•In Poll, once you voted once, you cannot vote again.
•You could also change the position of the Poll, go to Administer > Site Building > Blocks > position the poll > Save Blocks.

X. Managing Site Content
Categories
•To start categorizing contents, go to Administer > Site Building > Modules > enable Taxonomy module > Save Configuration.
•To administer taxonomies, go to Administer > Content Management > Taxonomy > Add Vocabulary > fill up the necessary fields and specify settings > Save.
•Go to Administer > Content Management > Taxonomy > Add Taxonomy > fill up necessary fields > Save.

RSS
•Really Simple Syndication is one way that websites exchange information. RSS is a format for publishing serial material.
•Turn on Aggregator, go to Administer > Site Building > Modules > enable Aggregator > Save Configuration.
•Remember to alter Permissions for the users to see the Aggregator.
•To add a feed, go to Administer > Content Management > Feed Aggregator > Add feed > fill up the fields > Save.
•You could also change the block where the feeds would appear, go to Administer > Site Building > Blocks > position the feed > Save Blocks.

Filters
•Drupal includes three input filters, go to Administer > Site Performance > Input Formats > we have Filtered HTML and Full HTML activated > you could configure them to alter permissions > Save Configuration.
•One more filter is the PHP, to turn on go to Administer > Site Building > Modules > enable PHP module > Save Configuration. It is turned off by default for security.

Comments
•You can control who can create comment, how the comment looks, or even delete and hide comments.
•Go to Administer > Content Management > Comments > there you could unpublish or delete unwanted comments.
•You could also go to Administer > User Management > Permissions > alter permissions > Save Permissions.
•To position the comments, go to Administer > Site Building > Blocks > change the position of Recent Comments > Save Blocks.

XI. Customizing Your Site’s Appearance With Themes and CSS
Configuration
•To change the current theme, go to Administer > Site Building > Themes > select a Theme and set to default > Save.
•You could also configure the theme, go to Administer > Site Building > Themes > click configure beside the theme you want to modify > make alterations on the settings > Save Configuration.
•But remember that your site looks different in different browsers.

Graphic
•You could also change the graphics in the theme. Go to the drupal folder itself and replace the image in the theme folder.
•Or even make some changes in the CSS file.

New Theme
•New themes are installed in the sites > all > themes subdirectory in your Drupal folder. Drupal automatically recognizes that newly installed theme. But remember to install only compatible themes, 5.x themes work for Drupal 5.x and 6.x themes are for Drupal 6.x
•The most common format is a two-column theme with a left sidebar or a right sidebar.


CSS
•CSS is responsible for the text font, column widths, colors and other styles.
•In Drupal, style css is the main CSS file.
•You could play around and make some changes with this CSS file but remember to keep a back up copy in case something would not turn out right,

2. Customized the Green Theme with Artisteer for more modifications. Downloaded images for the theme and made some changes.


3. Modified the style.css file of the Green template and the pge.tpl.php file.

Added codes in style.css:
div.art-Header-gif
{
position: absolute;
z-index:-1;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 850px;
height: 125px;
background-image: url('images/Header.gif');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: right right;
}

Added codes in page.tpl.php:


These codes would add a rotating earth.gif image on the right side of the header.

4. Modified some Site Information:

Slogan: Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture

Footer: Copyright © 2010 SEARCA. All Rights Reserved.

Added the About SEARCA, Graduate Scholarship, Short Term Training, Research and Development and Knowledge Management Primary Links

Added Vision and Priorities, Organization, Fund, and History pages under the Secondary Links.