[CALUG] Recommendations for a CMS

[Rob Payne]

On 5/11/11 11:10 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/10/2011 07:38 AM, Joe wrote:
>> "CMS:MS sites take us two or three days to develop, Drupal sites take about 
>> a week but require less maintenance in the long run."
>>
>> Can you recommend any online resources or books that can help me understand 
>> Drupal and make my time getting started in the muck down to a week?
> Most of the online resources seem to be videos. All of the books are
> out-of-date. The best advice I have would be to set up a fresh install
> of Drupal 7 and make yourself a site with it. Force yourself to use
> content/views until you realize why you'd want to.
>
> Here's my current checklist for new (minimal) D7 installs. This should
> get you to a point where you can create and modify pages, at least.
> Forgive the obvious copy/paste formatting issues.
>
>
> Disallow New User Creation
>
> Most clients who require a CMS don't want to allow new user
> registrations, but these are enabled by default. Turn them off as soon
> as possible. From the admin section,
>
>    1. Choose Configuration.
>    2. Choose People.
>    3. Choose Account Settings.
>    4. Select "Administrators only" under "Who can register accounts?"
>    5. Save the new settings.
>
> Enable the Menu Module
>
> The minimal installation leaves the Menu module disabled; you should
> enable it.
>
> Create a site administrator Role
>
>    1. Choose Administration.
>    2. Choose People (not under the configuration menu).
>    3. Click the Permissions tab.
>    4. Select Roles.
>    5. Add a role named "site administrator"
>    6. Optionally grant all permissions to the new role.
>
> Create a Full HTML Input Format
>
>    1. Choose Configuration.
>    2. Choose Content authoring.
>    3. Choose Text formats.
>    4. Add a new format.
>    5. Name it "Full HTML," and allow site administrators (created in the
> previous step) to use it. Leave everything else unchecked.
>
> Add a Content Type for Pages
>
>    1. Choose Structure.
>    2. Choose Content Types.
>    3. Create a new Content Type.
>    4. Name it "Page"
>    5. Uncheck "Promoted to front page" under publishing options.
>    6. Uncheck "Display author and date information" under display options.
>
> Path Settings
>
>    1. Download and install the Token and Pathauto modules.
>    2. Choose Configuration, Search and Metadata," and URL Aliases from
> the menu.
>    3. (Optional) Go to the Settings subsection. Personally, I prefer to
> use an underscore as the default separator. When doing so, it is useful
> to change the actions for hyphen and underscore to "do not replace."
>    4. (Optional) Remove all of the words from the list of "strings to
> remove."
>    5. Check all of the options on the "Bulk update" tab and save your
> settings.
>
> IMCE
>
>    1. Download and install the IMCE module.
>    2. Go to Configuration->Media->IMCE.
>    3. Delete the Sample Profile profile.
>    4. Add a new profile titled site administrators.
>    5. Disable the file/directory size quotas by setting them to "0".
> There are still PHP limits in effect preventing users from abusing the
> server too hard.
>    6. Add "pdf ps dvi svg txt" and possibly "doc docx xls xlsx ppt pptx"
> to the list of allowed file extensions.
>    7. Disable the maximum image resolution.
>    8. Set the maximum number of files per operation to something greater
> than one. Five seems about right.
>    9. Grant access to all of sites/default/files/ and its subdirectories.
>   10. Save your changes, and return to the IMCE menu.
>   11. Assign the new profile to the site administrators role.
>   12. (Optional) Under Common Settings, change the "Default behavior for
> existing files during file uploads" to "Replace the existing file with
> the new one."
>
> CKEditor (without WYSIWYG)
>
>    1. Download and extract the CKEditor module.
>    2. Download CKEditor and extract it in to the
> /sites/default/modules/ckeditor/ directory.
>    3. Enable the module.
>    4. Grant at least one role the access ckeditor permission.
>    5. In Site Configuration -> CKEditor, delete the "Advanced" role and
> edit the one that defaults to Full HTML (the input format created earlier).
>    6. # Under "Advanced options," force pasting as plain text.
>    7. # Under "CSS," choose "Define CSS," and enter
> %tstylesheets/ckeditor.css into the path (you should create this
> stylesheet eventually).
>    8. # Under "File browser settings," choose IMCE for the link dialog
> browser.
>
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-Rob