How do you PARTIALLY migrate?

Hi, there,

I'm sure it's just my newness to Drupal that would prompt this question, but what do you do once you're live and you update your development/test site and you want to migrate those changes to your live site.

Is it best just to drop the database and import it as new, along with any theme changes?

How do you usually do it?

Thanks so much, and have a good day,

- (A/L)

Updating/patching CCK operation

I am thinking about modifying CCK to my own needs. I hear CCK is now part of Drupal 7 core. Does that mean I cannot modify it - at least easily? Any help on how I can go about it will be great. I would like to keep the functionality the same but see if I can improve performance (by making some rather drastic changes).

Applying image styles results in broken images

Images upload fine. I can see originals in teaser and node. Selecting any of the styles (thumbnail, for example) results in broken images displayed. Image URLs point to sites/domain.com/files/styles/thumbnail/public/image.name. But the folder is empty. The only file that resides there is files/styles/thumbnail/public/modules/image/sample.png and it is visible when viewing image style settings. What am I missing?

Help Upgrading or Installing D7

I've had a number of people ask for help installing or upgrading D7. I'm creating this post to hold all questions and help so that everyone can benefit.

If you haven't tried IRC yet, please do. I'm usually on there (davidneedham) if anyone prefers to ping me.

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David Needham, Chapter Three
"Your Drupal experts in San Francisco"

Using Drupal for a large, (mostly) static site

Hi, I am currently looking at using Drupal for a rewrite of a large Government website. Our site has thousands of pages, and the structure is 5-6 levels deep in places.

I'm trying to learn what I can from the Drupal documentation and playing around with modules, but must admit it has a steep learning curve. Both of the previous CMSes I've worked on (Sitecore and Silverstripe) use a tree structure to represent pages, and so menus and URLs map quite obviously to pages in the tree. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how this would work in Drupal.

The only way I can see to do it at the moment is to create all of the pages, then link them in a menu and use the Menu Block module to show the correct parts (primary nav: levels 1 & 2, secondary nav: levels 3+). But with thousands of pages, wouldn't this create a menu that is too difficult to manage using the Drupal Admin interface? The documentation I've read about menus show sites with only 10 or so pages so this isn't a problem for them.

I have also just started to read about taxonomy, which I can see working well for some content like News and Events but I'm less sure about more static pages that we would like to place in a specific part of the site. (e.g. if we retrieve all the pages tagged as a "policy", can these be ordered however we like or does it have to be alphabetical?)

How to move content within my web page?

Hi Everyone,

I am completely new to Drupal. I am able to figure out what to do and so on, but as a person who knows html/css, I just can't seem to figure out how to move content to a different part of my web page. An example might help explain my question better.

If I have a navigation menu on the right hand side of my page, with css I would add a little margin or padding depending on the situation and that would push the nav menu to where I want it.

How would I situate various menus with Drupal?

Thanks,
./Randy

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