Well, I have now put out my first Drupal powered website: www.mybragpage.com
Background: this is a website that lists all the soldiers from World War II from Tillman County, Oklahoma. You can read about it on the opening page. I created the site for my mother, so that she could help to keep this information alive. I have two grandpas on that list!
Graphics: OK, it's the standard Kubrick theme... but it will change someday! I installed the tinymce module, so my mom is still having fun with the colors and fonts.
How I set up the people's name: I have each person as a node, with their name as the title, and the short bio as the body. I used a custom node, just so that I could control the display. Using the attachment module, the author can upload a picture. The first picture uploaded is used as the portrait.
What I learned: Just as the title page says (thank you, front_page module!!!) this information started out as a high school project. Each name had its own html file, using roughly the same layout. Different editors were used on different names, however, so the files were by no means identical! I wrote a script that pulled the necessary bio and picture information from the html files and saved them as nodes, complete with the file upload information. Needless to say, I learned a great deal about node construction! There were well over 1,000 names (html files)! In the end, only 20 or so names had to be hand edited because of import problems. Now, we just need to get the source information (it's supposed to be on its way) and continue the data entry!
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