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Facelift on the NPSL

Posted Tue, 07/07/2009 - 20:13 by Creech

Last night I completed an upgrade to the NPSL site. We hope that it will make our collective mission clearer (there is now a static home page) and the site a bit more readable (the contrast is a little better for viewing). On the left, you'll see a short list of the most recent posts. In the top menu, there is an item called "The Blogs". "The Blogs" will take you to the "river of news" that is all bloggers posts in a single place.

I hope you like the changes. Please let me know at matthew [at] dogstar [dot] org if you see any problems, broken links, and so forth.

Thanks!

Out with the Old and In with the New

Posted Tue, 10/28/2008 - 20:44 by Creech

You've probably noticed a change to the Commons' Web site.

  • It has a bit of a new look
  • Site elements have moved some.
  • The site has been upgraded from Drupal 5.x to 6.x
  • You'll see that URLs are now human friendly
  • An XML sitemap has been added for URL spiders
  • Meta-tags can be added to each post

As you look around, if you see anything that is out of place or not working correctly--please let me know!

Creech Antwerp (Matthew Saunders)

An Open Source Grant Making System

Posted Thu, 10/16/2008 - 10:46 by Creech

Grant-making isn't a cheap venture. Even if you are a re-granting agency (you are given money to give away), the overhead involved in running a grants program is significant. I want to help that change.

New Tech Grant Program--Knight Drupal Initiative

Posted Sun, 05/04/2008 - 19:35 by Creech

The Knight Drupal Initiative is a grant program designed to foster development in the Drupal project.

Knight Foundation is a Miami-based non-profit grant making organization. Since 1950, the foundation has invested more than $300 million to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression worldwide.

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Drupal Basics-Setting Up A Local Install of Drupal on a Mac

Posted Sat, 10/20/2007 - 12:03 by Creech

Seeing as this site is a Drupal site, I thought our members might be interested in how to set up Drupal locally on a computer.

The first time I ever set up a local install of Drupal was a copy of 4.7.4.  I remember aspects of setting things up being a little convoluted.  5.x had not gone into full release--I believe it was in RC 1.  So there was no installer and it proved to be an interesting challenge.  With the advent of 5.x, things have become much simpler.  I'm going to describe how to set up a local install of Drupal 5.x on a Mac.

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Drupal Basics-Feed Categories

Posted Wed, 10/17/2007 - 19:23 by Creech

I was asked by a good friend if I could merge the NPSL Offside Links and the Deli.cio.us NPSL links feeds into a single feed on nonprofitcommons.com in a block on the left side of the site. I took care of it this evening, and it is actually a piece of cake to do. These steps work in Drupal 5.x.

 

Many thanks to Brownrice Internet for hosting the NPSL site.

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