Retired but Active
rogerwebb - April 16, 2008 - 19:42
Drupal has been the ideal medium for my community site for the over-50s.
Its structure is ideal for this purpose though i have been frustrated by the poor integration of some of the modules particularly gallery2 and phpfreechat. The developers clearly prefer the clean green fields of development to the debugging operations that inevitably follow.
On the other hand some of the core functions are superb and when at last i got round to buying a user manual - david Mercer's 'Drupal' - i found that i wasn't using half of it.
i supose a community site is never 'finished' and www.retiredbutactive.com is still under initial develpment, but - i hope - worth a visit
Congratulations on your new
Congratulations on your new site. As one of your (cough) demographic, it's good to see a reasonable font size. We're not all combat pilots. Don't forget spell-check.
Spell Check
Thanks for your input
i did in fact replace the whole homepage today with something rather more targetted and spell checked.
have you tried og groups? it really opens up huge potential but not yet available to Drupal 6.
also these people! They're talking about drupal 7 with drupal 6 not fully up
i admire the energy they show but better to take all the bugs out of one version before launching out on another
Roger
Much better. I will need OG,
Much better. I will need OG, but still have to get everything else working first. I'm Ok with v5 for awhile.
Your Site
You never did tell me the name of your site
Very nice work
I am about to embark on creating a Drupal site so I'm looking at some of what others have done - and came across yours in this forum. I haven't found that many good retirement sites, I really like what you're doing.
Cheryl
ButWhatNow?
Buddhist Arts
SE Asia Travel Photos
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The core for Drupal 6.x is fully up. Developers don't sit around on their hands waiting for contrib modules to catch up. They begin work on the next major verison of Drupal shortly after the release.
When Drupal 7.x is released , Work will begin on Drupal 8
for an explaination of this philosophy see: the drop is always moving
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My posts & comments are usually dripping with sarcasm.
If you ask nicely I'll give you a towel : )
Misunderstood
I'm sorry you're feeling misunderstood!
i am full of admiration for the folks clever enough to design and deliver a new version and moreover to do it for free.
The difficulty for the developers of reasonably complex sites like www.retiredbutactive.com is that they use a wide range of modules like OG groups, gallery etc and they get left far behing in the developmet chain and we can't up-version until the last of our modules is also up-versioned.
I have yet to succesfully integrate gallery2 or phpchatlines into V5.5 and already you speak of version 6 and 7
Also i need OG groups and cannot upgrade until an og groups module is made to fit V6
In the mean time I wonder wheter the integrations will work on V6 and should i bother to try to solve the 5.5 problems
Believe me i am grateful for all you workers in Opensource without which i couldn't have the site - though that would also mean i didn't have the problem.
roger.webb@retiredbutactive.com
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I've had gallery2 working in a Drupal 5.x installation since it was released for Drupal 5.x. All my sites use Drupal 5.7 as its the most secure version of Drupal in the 5.x series. using anything less then 5.7 is risking your site as the expliots that have been patched as publicly known expliots.
Running a version less then the most secure release is your choice though you are risking your site, your users and anyone else that may be on your server.
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My posts & comments are usually dripping with sarcasm.
If you ask nicely I'll give you a towel : )
Hi rogerwebb, I am using
Hi rogerwebb,
I am using firefox 2.06.
I like the font size. But your padding settings are all off. Some images have popped out of the div, so as some of the content. In my opinion site which obey golden ratio looks good (right padding = left padding = top = bottom padding). The heading user login, if the content inside a block is center aligned then heading must be center aligned it looks better. Enable captcha for user login to avoid spammers. If you force users to login or register to post comment 95% of user won't post comment (But that is upto site administer and site policy).
Cheers.
Padding and popping Out
Thanks for your tip-off.
I haven't been able to reproduce the fault ever on er-indoor's machine using firefox.
Can you give more details
Roger
Most of the content have
Most of the content have popped out. I wish i could send you a picture of your site.
" The Community Site for the Over-50s", some of the images, bottom div etc.
Cheers.