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Skype be gone

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Submitted by Chris Graham on Tue, 01/03/2011 - 00:53
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OK, so it really started to bug me that every time I was theming up a website and have Skype installed that the toolbar would replace all of the phone numbers on my pages with their buttons.

Now, sometimes this is a good thing and I'm not giving off completely, but there are times when the buttons just mess up your design completely.

There are a few options you can use to show/hide the skype buttons:

Hiding buttons with CSS

You can add the following to your CSS to hide all of the buttons:

Live Drupal site to a Wampserver development environment

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Submitted by Chris Graham on Mon, 14/06/2010 - 15:37
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The Problem

We were recently asked by a member of staff to give them access to one of our websites on a laptop so that they could demo it at a meeting.

The Solution

I decided to go with Wampserver and a local copy of the site as the demo did not need to have the latest content.

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Websites

Drush and the SMTP module

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Submitted by Chris Graham on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:11
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I was recently doing a full update of Drupal core and modules on our Community Leadership Programme website.  Apart from the usual problems with Panels and Ctools there is a bit of pain if you update the SMTP module with Drush (probably goes for any other module that requires a third party download).

NICVA site revamped

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Submitted by Stephen Gray on Fri, 11/12/2009 - 16:48
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New NICVA site goes live www.nicva.org

big thanks to Feargal O'Kane, Chris Graham and Paul Gormley for making it happen.  

kudos to NICVA's information and communications team - Caroline Magee, Fiona Veitch and john McCormick for the unenviable job of sorting the content out.

www.nicva.org is the last of NICVA's websites to be ported to the drupal framework/CMS.    

Biggest thanks to all of those in the drupal community - as a small non profit organisation NICVA wouldn't be able to provide the range of online services we have without you.

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DrupalCampBelfast 09 - site live

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Submitted by Stephen Gray on Fri, 14/08/2009 - 11:26
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DrupalCampBelfast site is live and ready for registrations

http://belfast.drupalcampireland.org

the lads did an exceptional job in getting the site live.  It was primarily done in everyone's own time apart from an initial day and sporadic bouts of emergency fixes.

 

 

CommunityNI live

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Submitted by Stephen Gray on Fri, 17/07/2009 - 23:00
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www.communityni.org is live.

 

Version 2 of communityni.org went live on 17 June 2009. An in-house team built the site using the Drupal open source content management system. An overview of the process follows.

Background

Drupal 6 Data import

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Submitted by Stephen Gray on Thu, 14/05/2009 - 15:43
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Migrate data from MS SQL based CMS to Drupal 6

 

1,500 news articles
3,000 events
3,300 jobs
400 volunteering opps
5,000 organisations

 

Approach

use node import module
export content as CSV files - basic node requirements
import body content or extra fields via SQL updates

 

Organisations

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Drupalcamp Galway

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Submitted by Stephen Gray on Wed, 08/04/2009 - 11:51
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Just recovering from a weekend at Galway drupalcamp. http://groups.drupal.org/node/18452

there was a great vibe, and was a great weekend.  I'm not sure if we learned anything new about drupal specifically but we learned a lot of other stuff.

the best outcome was that two non-profits ended up with drupal sites built in one day - a great acheivement by the teams.

http://www.zikomo.org/
http://www.ruralsa.ie/

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Out and about

Embed a view in a tpl.php file

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Submitted by Feargal O Kane on Mon, 23/03/2009 - 15:59
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Snippet for embedding a view directly into a tpl.php file

Backup and Maintenance for Drupal

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Submitted by Feargal O Kane on Mon, 23/03/2009 - 12:54
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Our backup and maintenance strategy is based around the five basic parts of Drupal:

  1. The core drupal codebase
  2. The database
  3. Contributed modules
  4. Contributed themes
  5. Files directory

Our site architecture means that 3,4 and 5 are all within the sites directory but when doing backups it's good to think of them as separate.

Master backup

Make a master backup when:

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