Chach's website

I just looked at the keywords that people used to find the (few) pages on my website that anyone reads -- I find it to be very interesting to see all the different search terms people are using to try to find information about themeing cck.

Perhaps there is something we can learn from this. You can see that there's some pages where people stay on my site -- and then even still a whole lot where people are obviously searching, searching - trying to figure out how to theme drupal.

keyword visits | pages/visit | avg time on site | % new visits | bounce rate
1. drupal 6 theme cck node 7 1.00 00:00:00 0.00% 100.00%
2. theming cck 5 1.20 00:00:02 60.00% 80.00%
3. drupal 6 cck theming 4 1.25 00:01:25 75.00% 75.00%
4. drupal contemplate screencast 4 1.25 00:00:11 100.00% 75.00%

I hereby solemnly vow to write up my own notes on themeing forms in drupal 6

While I'm not actively themeing forms today...it's gonna happen soon.

These are the methods I am going to explore:

1. the regular way we theme forms is to create a tpl.php file
2. my friend said she read somewhere on internet that form templates take 3 times longer to load

I love Drupal. I love that I, as someone who has worked with the web for 10+ years & can satisfactorily program/design/architect, I love that I *could* do ANYTHING I wanted with it. And I will. I truly believe it is possible.

I also love, love, love my drupal-addicted friends, and am trying to convert the rest. I believe in our power as web people.

That said, for the past 6-8 months my heart has been scraped against the ground by the little blue troublemaker known as Drupal. Now my heart is leaking sad little drupal drops.

Hot off the press, a new module to help you download your nodes.

This is a new Drupal 6 module that will be in use on http://nisenet.org. This module will enable you to add two links to a node page -- one that creates a zipped file of all the files in a node, along with files for select nodereferences going 2 levels. The second is a link to a word.doc spit out of the node, which will also be included in the zip package.

Setting up templates in your theme

(*not* making & registering themes for modules - that's very different)

Theming CCK Input Form Drupal's main theming page

More on the basics how to set up/convert d5 themes to d6.

Devel Tips

• Get & turn on devel module, enable permissions

screenshot of cute-ify

The Mind website just launched.

This was a project I worked on for 4 years at the Exploratorium -- developing web/kiosk interactives and some physical exhibits. (Though I must say...I never want to go back to the days of making sites under 800px wide and it hurts to look at any site that isn't in Drupal!)