What is the deal with synonyms in Drupal? I add them to vocabulary terms, but that does not seem to effect the search. So why is there a place to put them in? How do you leverage them?
Synonyms are meant to define other terms that relate to the parent term, like a thesaurus. Core does not use them, but contributed modules make use of them. For your specific use case (exposing them to search), try the Synonyms module: http://drupal.org/project...
- Mark Trapp
Thanks, Mark, we'll look into this.
- Laura Norvig
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Looking for examples of sites using Fivestar. I know lots of sites use it - just want to grab a variety of screenshots showing how its implemented/themed.
Here's an interesting node example. You can see that users who are not logged in can rate the node, but cannot comment. That might be our implementation as well.
- Laura Norvig
I was able to add fivestar to my Drupal playground at home. It's super easy and you can choose from among a few basic layouts (below the node or on top, as I chose): http://www.bloodsisters.com/content...
- Laura Norvig
"Drupal is one of the most popular CMSs out there, and it’s no surprise considering how extensible it is. You can customize almost every aspect of it through the use of themes, plugins, and a little custom coding. Below are more than 150 resources to help you do just that, from themes to plugins to examples of sites running on Drupal."
- sofarsoShawn
With the new 6.12 release, and dabbling in it a bit: easy, yet complex I'm increasingly becoming convinced it's the platform of choice.
- sofarsoShawn
Disturbing, because in the long term it hurts Drupal. A good back-end is only one half of a site, a good front end is needed as well. The fact that custom themes seem harder to make certainly hurts there being more designs in the first place. Seems harder = people less likely to do it. I'm hoping, at least from what I'm seeing right now, that the Drupal 7 UX project will help to solve some of these problems.
- Dean Clark
yep, for me as well... just as i'm about to install a new site, and want to look for a theme
- Philippe
I've seen many "Apache Solr unavailable" messages on Drupal.org over the past few weeks. Probably the Solr servlet dies at regular times due to the increased popularity of Drupal. Unfortunately there's no fall-back available when Solr is down. IMHO they should cache the faceted search results of the Modules section on Drupal.org as this data is pretty static.
- Olivier Biot
Via http://d7ux.org — "We are really excited to share with you our initial concepts for a D7. Please take a look at the video above and there are LOTS of sketches and paper prototypes that you can explore over on the Flickr group as well. In this video you’ll see the three key aspects of the D7UX interaction model we are proposing."
- Mark Trapp
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"Drupal 6.12 and 5.18, maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as a critical security vulnerability, are now available for download. Both releases fix some other smaller issues as well. Upgrading your existing Drupal 5 and 6 sites is strongly recommended."
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
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The Acquia Drupal stack installer is the easiest way to get started with Drupal on your local machine. It installs Acquia Drupal 6, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, and Apache with one executable. http://learnbythedrop.com/drop...
I totally agree with this… because of open-source CMS' Dreamweaver is more easily replaced by apps like Coda. Against them Dreamweaver feels very much overpriced and overweight.
- Akeem Williams
You are right about it being overweight, it feels really clunky to use and by default generates some frightful HTML.
- Andrew Roche
Although Drupal's default theme isn't the best either ;) Maybe Zen should be the default.
- Andrew Roche
I think a lot of web designers would get a rude wake-up call if they transitioned from Dreamweaver to Drupal. To create a custom theme in Drupal does require lines of code: there is no WYSIWYG interface that hides CSS, HTML, and PHP code snippets. I think it's time to see a transition from web designers doing everything (including implementation) to just sticking to design and letting web developers implement.
- Mark Trapp
What I've personally seen as a result of Drupal is the rise of people (called Themers in the Drupal community) that sit somewhere between web designers and full-blown developers.
- Akeem Williams
Dreamweaver has been dead for a long time dude. :-)
- Josh Katinger