By ggevalt on

I run a small non-profit in Vermont dedicated to helping students write better. We provide classroom exercises, selections of best student submissions and samples of great visual art by students. The project started as (and continues as) a weekly newspaper feature. I started the Web site last year: www.youngwritersproject.org

I am in the process of developing a new site with Drupal. I have struggled with it but am starting to learn Drupal and am gaining some headway. I have just completed a re-installation so I can start with clean set-up. I am building a simple foundation and will gradually add features as I go. You can see my start at www.youngwritersproject.org/drupal

I am interested in flexinode as a possible way to have hidden submissions that only judges can read.

I am interested in tagadelic as a way for students to pop in cool urls on writing/reading that they like.

Here's the problem. And please forgive me if this question is on the order of: "How do you switch on a computer?"

I've loaded both modules up but there seems no way to get anything started; I feel like I've been handed the keys to a car that has no ignition. There appears no way to start a flexinode page nor does there seem anyway to start a module or block or anything that would allow folks to add tags to tagadelic.

Can anyone help? Again, my apologies for asking such a seemingly silly question; I am a newbie at all this and my old site represents what I taught myself last winter: HTML; a lot of this Drupal stuff is, honestly, baffling, but I can recognize the huge potential of what folks have done here. And I think, in the last analysis, this software and this community are awesome.

Thanks in advance

Geoffrey Gevalt
www.youngwritersproject.org

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doka’s picture

doka commented

I do not use flexinode, but please find some tips for Tagadelic.

I assume you have already found and turned on the block for Tagadelic.

The inputs for this block can come from the taxomony modul, so you should enable it (admin-->modules). Than go to admin-->categories, and add a vocabulary "keywords" or something like that. Set the "content types" your students are using, and set "hierarchy" disabled, and tick the "Free tagging", "Multiple select" and "Required" checkboxes, and submit.

After that simply use it: create a content (those types you have set), as usual, and type some keywords and submit the content. The keywords should appear in the Tagadelic block.

doka

Doka

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ggevalt commented

Noka,

Thanks so much for the response.
I had not noticed notice "tagadelic" in admin>>blocks because it comes up as something different. Once I recognized that, and followed your advice on the categories/taxonomy it worked great. THANKS. I have it working and think it will be a great addition for folks to navigate the site. (I am working on a test site which can be found at www.youngwritersproject.org/drupal )

One other question: I would like to create a free-standing module that would allow folks to enter tags to urls they like, sites on writing or sites of writers, musicians, artists, etc.... Do you know how to set that up? Is that something I can do with tagadelic?

cheers

geoff gevalt
www.youngwritersproject.org

geoff gevalt
http://www.youngwritersproject.org
http://www.ywpschools.net
http://geoffreygevalt.com

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ArunK commented

The list of terms have to be predefined? I see.