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This week's Lab hours

April 24, 2008 - 5:58pm — bobbia

Last Wednesday's Lab Hours was a busy time. Here's a quick summary of what we covered:

Lindagail found a tool for investigating keyword density, and is creating some pages that will help visitors - and the search engines - know what is on her site.
Curtis and Lindagail discovered the pros and cons of webforms vs. content types - both have their advantages! Lindagail determined that it will be much easier to create memorial content with a content type instead of a form. That way, she can just click "publish" and the content can be on her site.
Steve found ways to create page and block views.
Mathew, Tim and Tammy learned all the details about creating a local Drupal environment and using Subversion (SVN) for version control. See Barry's tip: Mac OSX SVN Management Tools for details.
Kristin was ecstatic, as she learned how to create a unique front page for her groups - no more river of news! This includes the ability to create a view which selects content for only the view being displayed, so she could show all dialogs for each group with one view. See her tip - Using panels for group homepage!.
Kay found that her blocks were misbehaving every time she went into her administrative theme - she discovered that if you have multiple themes, you need to configure the blocks in each.

We're looking forward to the next Lab Hours session, Wednesday April 30, 2008 4-6PM!

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