Librarians who Drupal?

Any other librarians developing Drupal sites out there? I'd love to chat. I have set up a Drupal 5.1 installation on my development server at home using a WAMP environment. I've added and created a lot of modules and menus, etc. but what I'm teaching myself now is how to do theming. So far it's pretty complex to do much beyond editing the CSS on existing themes. Anyone else attempting to learn theming? Send me an IM (AIM handle=ellyssakroski), an email, or just reply to this.

Best,
Ellyssa

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Permalink Reply by adri on March 8, 2007 at 12:20pm
Not using drupal -- we are using Joomla for our big read site www.bigreadok.com and are going to implement Joomla for a complete main site redesign this coming year.
Permalink Reply by adri on March 8, 2007 at 2:11pm
Thanks -- the Big Read site is just out of the can really -- but we've got some great add-ons for it. Anyone is welcome to register and see what else we have available to registered users. We are going to test Joomla store functionality with another big project called Red Dirt. I'll share the Red Dirt link once we get the current site migrated to Joomla.

/Yeah - Kansas! ;-)
Permalink Reply by Jonathan M. Smith on April 22, 2007 at 4:35pm
Here's another vote for Joomla!

When we decided to use a CMS for our intranet almost 3 years ago we looked through everything, narrowed it to Mambo, Plone, Drupal and something else I don't remember. We chose Mambo. After the developer split we followed the Joomla branch and haven't looked back!!!

I'm thinking we need to start a new thread on here for librarians who Joomla/Mambo. I had no idea that anyone else was using it. It would be great to share tips/ideas/code.
Permalink Reply by Kathryn Greenhill on March 9, 2007 at 5:27am
I considered Plone for a project. It looked like it had most things I wanted on the CMS Matrix, and the sites using it looked rather streamlined. I ended up using tikiwiki, as I didn't want to learn Zope. How are you coping with the different environment to most CMSs?
Permalink Reply by Steve McCann on March 8, 2007 at 2:23pm
I'm currently using drupal for an old committee page here: http://montana.librarydigitalprojects.com/ One of the early headaches I ran into was the amount of work it took to customize the page, it required more than the 15 minutes I had budgeted (probably unreasonable come to think of it ...) :/ Other than that, the drupal implementation was very easy for the committee members to work with. For our library site, we're also looking at moving to either drupal, joomla, mambo, post-nuke, or maybe xoops. We would like to stick with open source, if at all possible.
Permalink Reply by Ryan Deschamps on March 8, 2007 at 4:14pm
Hey Ellyssa -- here is a link to a discussion about using CSS in lieu of tables (the "tables are bad" theme).

http://groups.drupal.org/node/892

There may also be some leads to coding the rest of the system.
Permalink Reply by Jami Haskell on March 8, 2007 at 9:35pm
I'm currently testing drupal for my library's site redesign - just started the process. I would love to make some contacts with folks learning the process as well.
Permalink Reply by Mark Leggott on March 9, 2007 at 12:06am
We are moving to Drupal at UPEI for the Library and entire campus website. We are also using Drupal to build a VRE (Virtual Research Environment). UCalgary (http://ucalgary.ca/) is a nice example of a University using Drupal in a big way, including the Library. Also, Mark Jordan (http://digitizationblog.interoperating.info/) has a site for discussion of Library stuff using Drupal (http://drupalib.interoperating.info/).
Permalink Reply by Melissa Shepherd on March 10, 2007 at 1:33pm
Hi Ellyssa-

I am working up a LAMP Drupal intranet here--just started on Organic Groups Module, and am looking at theming next.
Permalink Reply by Elise B on March 16, 2007 at 3:09pm
Hey Ellyssa! Woot! We have similar names! Mine is annunciated Eh-lee-Sah. Congrats on the book! Any who, I am considering CMS for the pending redesign of my library's site http://libkcad.ferris.edu/ Could you make some suggestions on literature for someone starting from scratch and with bare bones knowledge on CMS? I just came across Drupal in discussions and know we have the system requirements. However, I have no clue how to start...Would love to pick your brain. Peace!
Permalink Reply by Christian Hauschke on March 19, 2007 at 10:47am
Hi Elise!

There are a lot of things you should think about when you try to pick the right CMS for you.

To name just a few:
- do you need a complex workflow
- what features do you want to implement?
- is it easy to customize the design?
- how secure is it?

I wouldn't recommend Joomla for example, because Joomla installations are too often victims of defacement hacks, and the user management almost does not exist. Some recommendations from my side:

- Typo3 (http://typo3.org)
- Zope/Plone (http://zope.org)
- ez Publish (http://ez.no)

All open source, all free, but with very different approaches. I found it best to install all CMS on my personal computer and played a bit. XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) is nice to make such experiments.

Greetings,
Christian
Permalink Reply by Elise B on March 22, 2007 at 9:18am
Hey Christian,
Thanks for the info. I like your approach and the questions you pose. I will definitely keep those and others in mind, as I venture into this project. Have a great day! Elise

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