Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I never realized before that the difficulty with XHTML and allowing comments has a solution so breathlessly simple that I hit myself for not having seen it before. I have configured the htmLawed module to “scrub” comments, but that wasn’t the solution. The solution is not to allow a person […]
Year: 2008
Still living, still breathing
Though I detailed my move from WordPress to Drupal in Live, on Drupal, I wanted to provide a short summary of the changes made at all of my sites. I’ve implemented the three phase 1 sites, Painting the Web, RealTech, and my personal site, Just Shelley using Drupal. The main Burningbird feed will list entries from all of the sites, while […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now, we have wonderful tools to make it easy to put writing or other content online. We can think of a topic, create a writing about it, and publish it—all in five or less minutes. We’ve also come to expect that whatever is published is read as quickly. We’ve moved […]
Live, on Drupal
I’ve now successfully made the move from WordPress to Drupal. The move was challenging at times, not the least of which I was so comfortable with WordPress and was moving into a completely new environment. However, now that I’m finished and I’ve had a chance to look around, I’m happy I’ve taken the time—both in […]
XHTML and the Forum
An issue I had with supporting XHTML in my WordPress weblogs is that it can be difficult to control others’ input in comments. I solved the issue with Drupal by not supporting comments directly on posts. Instead, I’ve provided a forum, using the Drupal Forum module, here at RealTech. I’ve only provided the one forum […]
