[Imc-cyprus] Re: [Fwd: notes on dada modules]

[Petros Evdokas]

Andrew, 

Thank you very much for your letter (copy below). I
had not realized that you were one of the techie-
elves who worked hard to install and refine the three
cyprus indymedia language branches on Illich. 

Please accept honetst thanks and gratitude from all of
us in the Cyprus collective. 

We've been doing our language/ character set tests,
and have not had time to look at the modules and css
files at all yet, and it will probably be while before
we do so. It seems that the emerging consensus among
our group is just to go public right now with our
pages in the state they came in (plus the refinenents
you did), and we'll deal with customizing and with the
rest as soon as we can, down the road a bit.

I will read everything you wrote and if I have
inspirations or questions, I'll definitely contact
you. Is the 
illich-users at lists.indymedia.org
list working? I subscribed to it a while ago, but I
don't think I've received anything on it yet.

Andrew, thank you very, very much,
Petros
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--- andrew loucks <andrew.loucks at hwcn.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	notes on dada modules
> Date: 	Tue, 08 Nov 2005 11:36:07 -0500
> From: 	andrew loucks <andrew.loucks at hwcn.org>
> To: 	illich-users at lists.indymedia.org
> 
> 
> 
> hello petros, all.
> 
> i thought i'd send along a few notes (attached as
> txt) i've written
> while setting up dada for hamilton.  perhaps it'll
> be useful.  or
> perhaps folks know much more about the dada modules
> and can help me out!
> 
> since there really isn't any documentation on the
> modules (i.e. all the
> features in dada), i've had to learn by tinkering. 
> i've found that some
> modules have less than agreeable personalities; a
> number of them don't
> work well with others - or at least i can't get them
> to work well.  i've
> documented some of this in the attached notes, and
> set up the three
> cyprus sites to eliminate some of the conflicts i
> found while setting up
> hamilton.  i also left the media gallery and
> newswire disabled, figuring
> you'll let those loose when you're ready.
> 
> hope all this is okay.
> 
> have fun,
> 
> andrew
> imc-hamilton
> 
> 
> > ADDING METHOD TO THE MADNESS OF SETTING UP DADA
> 
> - 1) have one browser window (or tab) open to play
> with module settings in the admin interface (making
> sure to hit the submit button after changes); 2)
> have another window open to verify changes on the
> site as you tinker with the modules.  changing views
> from the different style sheets seems to be a fairly
> reliable way to refresh the module settings.
> 
> 
> PROBLEMS (?) WITH CURRENT (OCT/05) DADA INSTALL
> 
> - post an article page spacing is messed up.  fields
> in the publish form stretch into the right column
> 
> SOLVED: this seems is caused by allowing the left
> column stuff to show up in the newswire module. 
> make sure the box that makes the left column show up
> is unchecked.
> 
> - in the media centres module, the only .inc file
> i've gotten to work
> is the one that displays the centres vertically.
> 
> - no submit button for quick comment, and no way to
> post a detailed comment (i.e. with attached files)
> 
> SOLVED: the anti-spam feature (under misc tab in
> site preferences) seems to screw things up, so turn
> i turned it off.
> 
> 
> - had trouble getting the poll module and other
> gadgets to work.  content, for now, to have just the
> basics working.
> 



		
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