Kairosnews has been updated to the Drupal 4.7.0 Release Candidate in anticipation of the approaching stable release. I've still got a few things to do on the site, so some of the menu items and pages may move around a little bit.
New features, such as
- Much improved search capabilities.
- Categories for posts are handeled as freetagging like on del.icio.us.
- Blog posts URL's are now automatically built from the title.
- Registered members can add new and edit existing book pages, and book pages show revisions. Now anyone can update the Weblogs by Teachers and Scholars in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literature and Weblog Webliography pages.
- New theme based upon and inspired by the Drupal version of Mollio and tristar web design's euphoric.
- The news aggregator can subscribe to atom feeds. Someone could start a thread with a blog post and recommend composition and rhetoric weblogs with atom feeds (e.g., Blogger sites) for us to suscribe to.
For the moment, there is on WYSIWYG editor for entering content. I have not had the chance to test the options availablef for Drupal. But don't let that stop anyone. The site is ready for use.
If anyone experiences any problems, please post the issue to this thread.
-- Charlie
w00t!
Looks good, Charlie!
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Mike
http://www.vitia.org/
clickable banner?
Hey, Charlie -- how about making the "Kairosnews" banner itself clickable, along with the mouse icon, so that it takes you to the home page? More instinctive and to-the-point than "home," maybe?
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Mike
http://www.vitia.org/
clickable
yeah, i hadn't gotten around to making the site title clickable. put that off at the beginning. thanks for reminding me :)
the banner with the mouse is a background, though (like the ipod).
Some Bugs to Make Your Day!
Great work, Charlie. I was poking around and doing a little informal usability testing. Here are a couple of things that came up:
The "recent posts" link (on the top bar) produces an error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: tablesort_pager() in /home/knews/public_html/modules/views/views.module on line 1009
There was a link in the Kairosnews email update for this blog post (the one I'm commenting on here):
1. Upgrade 90% Complete
Published blog entry by cel4145
[ http:///upgrade-90-complete ]
That actually takes you to this site:
http://castlecops.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4630
That triple slash suggests there's some freetagging going on but the domain is not being included (?).
Let us know if you need more help!
Dave
re: some bugs
Thanks. I was playing with the views module and forgot to turn it off. The recent posts page works now.
I'll have to see if I can fix the email notification. Looks like a bug in the module.
Find anything else, let me know :)
Eeeyargh. HOW do you do the freetagging?
I clicked the "delicious" link and tagged this post with "browser_testing" and "CSS." I refreshed Kairosnews and didn't see the tags show up. Then I ran cron on Kairosnews, refreshed again, and STILL didn't see my tags. Am I doing something wrong?
CultureCat
Never mind.
The tagging just didn't work like I thought it did. I went to "create content" then "blog entry" and I saw how it works. I thought maybe Drupal 4.7 sites would be synced up with del.icio.us via RSS so that any tag a del.icio.us user assigned to a Kairosnews post would show up on Kairosnews under that post. I have to admit, I kind of like my way better than the way it is here. The way it is now, it's still the author of the post who's determining what the tags are (that are displayed at Knews).
Unless, of course, I'm still misunderstanding how it works.
CultureCat
somewhere in between
IMHO, assigning del.icio.us tags to the posts here on Kairosnews might not be beneficial. What I wish was that users on Kairosnews other than the original author of the post and editors could add tags here to posts. Someone already suggested this on drupal.org, and I wouldn't be surprised if the freetagging on the site doesn't get lots of nifty enhancement modules over the next 6 months or so.