Making CommunitySense

Although images are such a staple of today's websites, strangely enough proper image handling is not part of Drupal's core functionality modules. In particular, I was looking for modules that allow image galleries to be created. Although many people recommend the Gallery2 module for Drupal, I also read posts that said it can be very complex to install and finetune it. Many people therefore recommend the Drupal Image Module.  read more »

There is a problem with the standard way Drupal creates "Read More" links for node "teasers" (e.g. the first few lines of a blog post). The following snippet gives an example:

The "read more"-link is placed obscurely next to other links. Furthermore, there is no visual indication showing that this post actually goes on for quite a while. If the teaser stops at the end of a sentence, it may look like there is actually nothing more to read, preventing the reader from looking for more.  read more »

Open source content management systems like Drupal have great potential for organizations and networks as instruments for creating a sense of collaborative community. However it is essential to make a clear business case of why Drupal is a good idea, in order to convince management and (potential) users. The technie community traditionally has not been very good at this, but some interesting explanations are under construction. Some relevant links:  read more »

• The Drupal Business Case
  

I installed my first 3rd party-Drupal module (Tagadelic). However, after extracting the module files and ftp-ing them to the info/modules directory, nothing showed up when trying to enable the module. The trick is in that, since version 5.x, a separate external module directory is needed:

"as of version 5.x you should create a sites/all/modules/ directory and put uploaded modules there."  read more »