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Welcome to the Development Blog

Hello users of the site!

In an effort to facilitate faster development and communication during the site improvement process, I have started a this blog where you can keep track of site improvements, comment on developments listed here and submit feature requests by entering an entry into this blog You can make new entries by clicking on the "Add to Development Blog" link at the bottom of the "add entry" menu

To do list before completion

Home Page

Add newsletter signup block with HTML block as template

Add multimedia block to front page

Twitter Block

 

Resources Entries

Hide all resources that are tagged to show up on the Hidden Resources page

 

Footer

Style footer to conform to design\

 

Publications Page

More publications need be added

Shopping cart functionality TBD (perhaps link to IT's shopping cart)

 

 

Links to PDFs page created

Hermina needed the ability to link PDFs to certain pages on the website.

I uploaded a bunch of PDFs to the /sites/default/files/pdfs directory and renamed them to be web friendly

Then, I created a page that has a list of the relative urls where they live on the server.

NOTE: the "/" before the file is for use within the Rich Text Editor only. The / is not needed for normal drupal operations.

 

 

Fixed Line Height on NewsFlash Suckerfish menu

Nick and I figured out how to fix the line height so it looks tighter

The problem was that it was inheriting the line height from the parent item

Here is the code

file: \\lamp\safestartweb\sites\all\themes\newsflash\css\suckerfish_copper.css

margin added to e-newsletter block

In order to conform to design and to get the homepage newsletter block to line up with the slideshow,, we added a margin of 7px

file \\lamp\safestartweb\sites\all\themes\newsflash\css\copper.css

/*e-letter subscribe blcok*/

#block-block-19{
    background-color:#f3f0e2;
    border:solid 1px;
    border-color:#dddcd5;
    padding:10px;
    width:273px;
    margin-top:7px;

Added Recent Comments to Dashboard

In an attempt to facilitate communication, I put a recent comments view in place of the calender and moved the calender to the bottom of the page

Search Functions now availibe

I configured cron successfuly and now the search function on the site is enabled. Try it out!

It ain't pretty, but its a CSS guide

In order to facilitte easy styling, I have added styles to most of  the blocks that lie within the panels on the front page and the mini panel on the bottom navigation menu

 i also added a style to the underlying mini-panel in case we wanted to use that effect

To alter the css of these blocks - you need to edit the file \\lamp\safestartweb\sites\all\themes\newsflash\css\copper.css.

 

Here is the code that you are looking for

Bottom Menus constructed

In order to efficiently display the bottom menus, I put 3 menu blocks and a custom block inside of a mini panel and put that mini panel in the content bottom region.

 The beauty of this system is that the menu blocks can also be reused on the tops of the resources views pages and we do not have to hard code much

 You can alter the mini panel by reaching the dashboard here

 

 

Dashboard now under development

I had a meeting canceled today, so I decided to mess around and presto! , I came up with a new dashboard for admins. Right now it has some basic information, but as we move forward, I hope to implement some more complex stuff - like maybe a graph of some sort....

 

Suggestions are welcome

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