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 Janice Banser on March 20, 2007 at 12:23pm
It seems there are a lot of recommendations for Drupal. I am still not sure myself, but have started researching open source CMS's as we are considering migrating our public site (currently Mambo) and our intranet (Joomla) to one CMS. The issue we are having is that both the website and intranet were setup by a local webdesign company and 1. they did not have library users in mind and neither site has excellent info architecture 2. They are out of business and not to be found 3. the admin side of things is monstrous. (I have indentations on my forehead from banging it on the keyboard in frustration).

I have been looking at Drupal, Plone, and WebGUI. There is lots here about Drupal, but do any of you have more to say about Plone or WebGUI????
Permalink Reply by Jim Bongiovanni on April 17, 2007 at 11:13am
I've installed Drupal 5.1 on a Linux server that I use for testing and backups. I have an existing site coded in PHP with a MySQL backend that I'm hoping to Drupalize but the learning curve is proving a bit tougher than I expected. My current sticking point is how to organize and display data in a one-to-many relationship, i.e. via the Taxonomy module, CCK/Views or a Custom Module? I was under the mistaken impression that I could move my existing databases into Drupal and paste my PHP Scripts into new pages to query and display my data. The available documentation is not to helpful on this matter but I'm slowly starting to see possibilities.

Did at one time install and play around with Plone a bit but not sure I have anything to contribute that would help anyone's decision-making.
Permalink Reply by Laura Solomon on April 17, 2007 at 10:19pm
Hi Ellyssa--I've done a fair amount of work with themeing Drupal--I use a existing template usually as the base (I use templates using the phptemplate engine0 and been able to do some interesting things by adding in custom code. Did you have specific questions, or just want to discuss? You can IM me on just about any service with the handle "lebachai."
Permalink Reply by hayesw on April 20, 2007 at 1:11pm
We are rolling out a Drupal site (5.1) as our new Library Portal at Biogen Idec. I worked at the theming bit for a while and then gave up and used the Zen theme. To get a theme to work correctly with IE 5.5, 6.0, 7, Firefox 2, Safari 2.0 was just too much (mostly from IE 5.5). We are finishing up the content and will be rolling it out shortly. We also LDAP-enabled it so we could re-use login info already available.

Theming beyond CSS and the basic php template files gets very hairy quite quickly. Lullabot has some good training courses (I attended the Feb? training week in Rhode Island) which was very well done.
Permalink Reply by Mark McBride on April 27, 2007 at 12:57pm
We just had a meeting this week our systems librarian has us going Joomla! I'm very excited and he'll be very happy that others have taken the plunge. We are going to launch offically in the fall.
Permalink Reply by James Day on May 1, 2007 at 10:15am
What have you been able to figure out with themes?

I've just started looking into Drupal. Glad to hear it runs on WAMP since that is what my development machine is running. I may have some time early next week to install and start configuring it.

What do you plan to use it for? I'm thinking staff intranet.
Permalink Reply by Eddie Byrne on August 22, 2007 at 5:41am
Hi Ellyssa,

I have just started looking at Drupal and Joomla, I want to see if one or other is the right way to go for our library. I would like us to have a 'main' site with sub-sites (sub-domins) for particular audiences and with particular focuses 'hanging' off it. AADL is the model I am thinking of. I believe they use Drupal. We have an existing site (soon to move to a new CMS - our site is part of the corporate website) which I have always found inflexible and just does not allow me to move in the direction I want to go (Web 2.0 direction) - I would like the 'drupal' site to be a parallel presence where the activity happens, where our users are engaged with us. The sub-sites in the main would be blogs and operate like such, there would only be 3-5 permanent one. I have considered just using wordpress which I am familiar with, but it just doesn't scale right. Will let you know what if anything pans out.
cheers, Ed
Permalink Reply by W Greg Taylor on March 27, 2008 at 10:48am
Hi Ellyssa;

Recently, I've been spending some time working on a redesign of the TorontoTheBetter.net site using Drupal and am finding it pretty complex as well...I may be contacting you or some others for advice in the future...

Greg.

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