By imabird on

I just dumped my (personally developed) html site, did a lot of research, decided on a CMS package, and then decided to go with Drupal. Little challenges here and there, but I like it, and am glad that I went with it. I just started several days ago, stayed up long hours (can you spell impatience :) and have it fairly to my liking. Not done, by any means, but am happy for it as a good start.

It's theme is Parrots (I've 6 of them, hence the domain name), along with webcams, several forums, a few games, and the chat.

I appreciate all the work that the Drupal developers had done as well as the module builders (am a programmer too, but mainly prefer support). I'm still looking for a different chat, and other games to add.

Feel free to take a look. (some things require logging on though).

Barry

www.imabird.com

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.6.x

Comments

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atticus commented

Hi Barry, Looks like you put a lot of work into the site -- lots of bells and whistles.

I didn't notice any copyright notice. You might put on a creative commons license on the site (if you're not reserving all rights) to indicate what or how others can use content...or not.

http://creativecommons.org/

Best,
Brent
My Drupal Experiment

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imabird commented

Hi Brent! Thanks for the heads up. I've never considered it before, even when I had developed my site in html, or even when I ran a BBS. I had written shareware and public domain (freeware) software too, but never copywrited it.

I figured if my various photos and videos, etc.. are on the public internet, I'm not going to be able to stop someone from 'borrowing' them. If they published a photo in a book or magazine, well, some people might recognize 'hey, that's Barry's photo, cool'.

Is there a really good reason that I should bother?

Thanks,

Barry
IMaBird Parrots

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atticus commented

You're right. Once something is digital (or publicly available in any form), you're vulnerable.

It sounds like you're willing to share your stuff--that's great! I expect if it was used commercially, you'd want to have some say in that and share in any profits. You might consider the creative commons licensing just to let people know that. There are various options, you can see at their site I posted before.

If you think of it this way -- The more you share, the more people will get to know your work -- then that flows right into the CC attitude. The licensing encourages people to use the work non-commercially, which means your work potentially gets more exposure than if you try to retain the full copyright.

PLUS (here's the reason to bother) - Google and the CC site itself are trying enable people to search for stuff based on the license. Without that CC license, they won't find your stuff that way. With it, you might attract traffic you wouldn't have received otherwise.

If you see my site (Wanderings.net), you'll see that I do have full copyright reserved, no CC. However, if you go to my Flickr account, some of my pictures are CC licensed. So I've chosen not to share my text, but I have put some of my pictures on a CC licensed. Reason being, I found people were using my content for their website--no commentary, just using the content in full--and I didn't feel that's what I wanted. With some of my pictures, I feel differently.

Anyway, that's my perspective. Apologies for the long-winded reply.

Best,
Brent
My Drupal Experiment