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Now migrated to Drupal 8!

Submitted by kattekrab on Sat, 20/04/2019 - 22:08
Drupal 8

It was easy!

Ok - I did have help from cafuego, so there's some bits of the process that were just magic to me.  But once I had access to the environments, I enabled the migrate modules, and followed instructions on drupal.org and hey presto it was done!

I did need to do manual clean up - re position blocks into differently named regions, and recreate some menu items for taxonomy.

I also got stumped for a bit about why I could no longer free tag, but that turned out to be a simple setting change.

Site building with Drupal

Submitted by kattekrab on Sat, 17/02/2018 - 14:05
Web site building - image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

What even is "Site Building"?

At DrupalDownunder some years back, the wonderful Erica Bramham named her talk "All node, no code". Nodes were the fundamental building blocks in Drupal, they were like single drops of content. These days though, it's all about entities.

Tools for talking

Submitted by kattekrab on Fri, 11/08/2017 - 02:59
Screenshot of intro slide - The colours of Barcelona!

I gave a talk a couple of years ago called Tools for Talking.

I'm preparing a new talk, which, in some ways, is a sequel to this one. As part of that prep, I thought it might be useful to write some short summaries of each of the tools outlined here, with links to resources on them.

Drupal Association - Election time! Or do you know what the DA does?

Submitted by kattekrab on Thu, 10/03/2016 - 17:58

We've got a great line-up of candidates to choose from this year in the Drupal Association board election. It's a really tough choice.

But reading through the candidates statements it seems many of them seem to think that being on the board of the association somehow influences the project directly. It doesn't.

The board governs the association. It doesn't govern Drupal.

The Association doesn't govern Drupal either.

Beta out for Bootstrap 3 for Drupal 8

Submitted by kattekrab on Sat, 12/12/2015 - 18:18
Bootstrap 3 for Drupal

Open Source Software. Gotta love it.

I was fooling around with the second alpha release of the Bootstrap theme for Drupal8. I hit a snag, made a wish (by posting an issue to drupal.org) and Lo! and Behold! Not long after the wish was granted and a Beta was released.

If you're one of those people who uses Drupal to publish stuff online, and just want to get something up quickly without using Drupal's default Bartik theme, then you might want to take a look at Bootstrap.

Sympathy - Empathy - Compassion

Submitted by kattekrab on Thu, 10/09/2015 - 13:10
Sympathy - Empathy - Compassion

Communication can be surprisingly hard.

Human beings talk a lot. Well many humans do. Some less so, Some more so, but I reckon, in general, there's a lot of daily jibber jabber.

Some of that talking is light hearted "Small Talk". Some of it is world changing speeches. Some of it is the daily to and fro we need to get stuff done; at work, at play, at home.

D8 Accelerate - Game over?

Submitted by kattekrab on Thu, 27/08/2015 - 10:47
D8 Accelerate Chook Raffle - Game Over!

The Drupal 8 Accelerate campaign has raised over two hundred and thirty thousand dollars ($233,519!!).  That's a lot of money! But our goal was to raise US$250,000 and we're running out of time. I've personally helped raise $12,500 and I'm aiming to raise 8% of the whole amount, which equals $20,000. I've got less than $7500 now to raise. Can you help me? Please chip in.