Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I’ve been spending all my free time playing around with Drupal. I’ve had this recurring idea to make a literature community site similar to deviantART, but it will only accept content that is licensed under Creative Commons licenses, a sort of “open source” literature site. I’ve got connections so there will be some quality stuff up there right away, including some of my own.

Anyway, I’ve been able to get most of the functionality nailed down without touching any code myself. I may have to do that eventually, but right now, modules have been giving me what I need. Let me list a few of them and what I’ve used them for:

• CCK — A necessity if you want to create custom forms.
• Views — Excellent for creating custom blocks and pages with specific queries.
• Pathauto — Automatically creates friendly URLs, otherwise you’ll have URLs like node/12 instead of poetry/this-is-the-title
• Vocabulary Permissions — This allows admins to add tags to certain nodes, useful for me if I want to release a magazine issue and add works simply by tagging them with the issue number.
• Flag Content — Lets users flag inappropriate content.

So those modules let me set up a simple literature website pretty easily. I do plan on having virtual workshops and such, which might require me to write up some of my own modules. But so far, I’m impressed with Drupal and how easy it makes setting up a community website.

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