Views

Recently, while working at requirements for a Government client I was tasked with finding a way to create rss feeds for site wide searches. Here, I've decided to share this solution with the wider community.

Last week Dr. Sameer Verma invited me to give a presentation on using Drupal's CCK & Views modules at an all day open workshop he was giving to promote FOSS use in preparation for Software Freedom Day 2009 here in Jamaica. It is very nice to see Drupal being recognised as a substantial member of the FOSS comunity.

In this blog entry I outline the process I used to develop a fully functioning web gallery for my photography with drupal5. With good old google search by my side, being the great wealth of knowledge that it is, this turned out to be a simple process of just following a few tutorials.

Find a suitable theme

First off I wanted to find a suitable theme, something simple yet stylish. I was looking for a dark grey or black minimalist background so as not to distract from the impact of the images. I settled on this theme

The views module is a very powerful way of displaying information stored in nodes. Coupled with CCK for creating custom content types, it is possible to store and visualize data in very interesting ways.

Well, in my spare time working with the Guelph NDP, I've redesigned the Riding Association's website. Previously, it was a Drupal 4.7 install, with separate sites for the RA, the Guelph NDP Youth, and the Tom King campaign.