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Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 7

Drupalace — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:58:23 -0700

Continued from the previous quintet of installments: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site.

http://www.squidoo.com/blogstarter

This time, a change of pace: I'll look back at all the past Checklist suggestions I undertook, implemented, or otherwise subjected myself to, and report on results.

Yes, results! That's what makes the world go round. Results put the spin in the globe, the worm in the tequila, the... uh... the drupe in Drupal...

Online Finds: Custom search forms with Views and Fastsearch

Drupalace — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:27:07 -0700

How much does Merlin Mann of 43 Folders like Drupal's Views? Take a look for yourself:

http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/statuses/214899002

Aye yi yi, that's way too much!

But he's got reason for that love, as he notes when he links to a Lullabot tutorial on building a nifty custom search form sporting filters for taxonomy terms and content types.

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 6

Drupalace — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Continued from the previous quintet of installments: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site. (I'm only copying the item headers from that list; head over there to follow along, and to see Rajesh's comments that you'd otherwise miss.)

http://www.squidoo.com/blogstarter

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 5

Drupalace — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Sorry for the silence; the Ace has been traveling for a while. It's back to the blogging deck to deal a new hand.

Continued from the previous quartet of installments: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site. (I'm only copying the item headers from that list; head over there to follow along, and to see Rajesh's comments that you'd otherwise miss.)

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 4

Drupalace — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:00:00 -0700

Continued from last time: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site. (I'm only copying the item headers from that list; head over there to follow along, and to see Rajesh's comments that you'd otherwise miss.)

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 3

Drupalace — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:33:45 -0700

Continued from last time: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site.

I still have unsolved issues from last time: namely, what exactly one does with Feedburner and Technorati. Your advice would be a huge help, oh Reader!

On to the Checklist, starting where I left off:

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 2

Drupalace — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:25:05 -0700

Continued from last time: a look at Rajesh Setty's Blogging Starter Checklist, with a particular eye toward applying its advice to blogging on a Drupal site.

Drupal Tutorial: Make Custom Fivestar Graphics

Drupalace — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:28:19 -0700

Okay, experts, stop snickering. Yes, the procedure for making custom ratings "stars" for the Fivestar module is pretty darn obvious to anyone who peeks into the module's files. But it doesn't come with those instructions, and I could have saved a little time had there been a few how-to notes.

Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 1

Drupalace — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:50:08 -0700

Rajesh Setty is a blogger whose name you'll run into without much effort. He's the man behind the Life Beyond Code blog, a site commanding one of the coveted feed slots on Drual Ace's Google Reader.

He's created a Blogging Starter Checklist, which is great for people like me who have enough knowledge of this "blogging" thing to get up and get started, but whose knowledge gaps leave a palpable sense of flailing about and missing important steps. Running through the checklist, every item spurs me to one of three responses: