Website development & things you might encounter

 

Technology is so important these days – if you have a business of any kind, it is so important to have a website. That is one of the first things people look for when they want more information about a product or company, but many people think that creating a website is too difficult so they simply don’t do it. If you’re looking to learn more about how to make a website, there are many tutorials available online that can get you up and running in just a few easy steps.

 

The first thing you have to do is register a domain name. Choose a good domain name that relates to what your business does. One of the best places to register your domain name is GoDaddy.com; it’s easy to use and sometimes you can get your domain name for less than $12 depending on the deals that are going on at the time. The next step is to set up your hosting account, which is one thing many people don’t know how to do when they are learning how to create a website. There are many to choose from, but avoid cheap offers from non-reputable companies and pick a well-established company instead. Hostgator is a great choice that is extremely dependable and offers a wide variety of hosting plans.

 

Once you’ve gotten your website hosted, you’ll want to alter the Domain Name Servers at the domain register. Simply enter the details emailed to you when you signed up for your Hostgator account; sometimes this may take up to 48 hours to become active. Next, you should install WordPress. This is a blogging platform that lets you create and publish pages with little effort. Within 24 hours, your WordPress installation should be live. Finally, set up your WordPress and publish your website.

 

If you’ve always wondered how to make your own website but were too intimidated to try, have no fear – follow these five simple steps to get your new site up and running today.

This is a proposal to remove auto post-trimming functionality from D7. (In D6 this was at admin/content/node-settings and in D7 it is at admin/structure/types/manage/ under the vertical tab “display settings.”)

Automatic post trimming is duplicating maxlength field functionality. The maxlength field on the field creation page for the new “body” field is currently grayed out in order to accommodate incorporating the legacy post-trimming functionality. Grayed out fields are bad UI. Now that “Body” is a field like any other field, let’s take advantage of that.

A huge advantage of this, if it happens, is that it will make the UI for the new “long text and summary” field much simpler. Get rid of that javascript, “edit summary”, “hide summary”. You have the “summary” and the “teaser” with full control for the user to create each one separately. And you can set maxlength on each one (they are separate fields in the db). Simple!

Shai

 

Choice of Javascript framework

It would be a good addition for people who prefer another framework, to be able to do so. I personally prefer Mootools, and it would be quite helpful if I don’t need to override the javascript everytime on the frontend.

I was thinking of something like a javascript “adapter”, or so, much like Shadowbox (http://www.shadowbox-js.com/) uses.

This way, people would be able to include their javascript framework of choice, an adapter between their framework and the drupal javascript, and finally the drupal javascript functionality.

Think of the adapter as an interface of functions, which have a set input and return value. The only thing that needs to change is the way the return value is obtained, or the action performed.

Drupal issues

  • Sat, 02/27/2010 – 10:54
    • Branching off of #537434: Drop the blog API from core, we now have xmlrpc.php, includes/xmlrpc.inc and includes/xmlrpcs.inc, along with its hook, that are being used by absolutely nothing in Drupal core. The forked library is also extremely old and outdated. Since it’s not being used by Drupal core, this should move to a solution like Services, which abstracts the communication layer between the client and the server.

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