[Imc-drupal-dev] Drupal from scratch

[Bruno De Bondt]

Cameron Gregg wrote:
> Caspar Aremi wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I'm involved with developing a new IMC proposal.  In the meantime,
>> we're looking to set up a site as a test just to get familiar with it.
>>  I've personally got a lot of experience with Drupal, having used it
>> for some time on a couple of other projects.  I'm just looking for
>> some hints and tips on the best default settings and modules to
>> install & enable to get an adequetly functioning IMC site going.
>>
>> I found the Drupal Indymedia group which has been useful, and I've
>> tried to browse the lists of a couple of the Drupal based IMCs I've
>> found, but maybe something like a "First steps with Drupal for IMC
>> sites" type guide could be created? (there may be something like this
>> on the wiki already but not having access to it right now has ment
>> I've not had a chance to look).
>>
>> Any advice appreciated!
>>
>>     
>
>
> Images.
> Originally when we setup sydney indymedia. we had the image module 
> installed and also allowed images to be uploaded as attachments (upload 
> module). This has resulted in images being stored in two ways, which is 
> messy.
>
> We recently disabled attachment functionality, forcing users to upload 
> as an image node.
> I think having images as nodes is much better, because the image has 
> metadata with it.
> - allowing images to be browsed independently from the story
> - can be integrated into galleries
> - allowing images to be found in a search.
> - allowing images to be categorized
> I take the same view with audio and video.
>   

Are you using video and audio module? What are your experiences with these?

> We use the image assist module to allow easy insertion of images into 
> story content.
>   

We used to use this for image insertion in features. With the upgrade to
4.7, we moved features to CCK and added an image field to upload feature
images. This image is inserted on the right place in the feature through
the Content template module.
 
> Download Method.
> We have download method set to public. The drupal docs recommend that a 
> files directory be created in your drupal install dir for this. However, 
> at the time we were using a drupal install which hosted serveral drupal 
> sites, therefore we created /files/sydimc, so files from different sites 
> would not all be in the one dir.
>
> What method do others use? Are there any advantages/disadvantages to each?
>   

We are using Flexinode for content types atm. One advice: do not use
Flexinode. At the time of our switch to Drupal, the discussion between
Flexinode and CCK was still going on, CCK was still in development,
video module was also extremely basic then, so Flexinode seemed to be
the best option then to allow for flexible content types. We're planning
to migrate to CCK and video / audio module .

-- bruno

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