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I am testing Drupal on my Win 2000 PC. So far I like what I am seeing. This may help other webmasters who already have a site.
I have a site that has many pages and these said pages have been in the search engines for over 4 years. My dilemma I want to upgrade the site using Drupal for RSS feeds, Forum, Latest news ET.... Without losing these search engine rankings.
I'm concerned that Drupal's system for generating initial user passwords is likely losing users on my community-oriented, non-techie sites. I recognize that the random strings may be more secure, but for many purposes, the security issue is much less important than the usability issue -- i.e. making the sign-up and sign-in process easier for users. Some suggested improvements:
- instead of generating totally random strings, create strings that are a mix of real words and numbers, as flickr does (for example, an initial password might be kite27potato)
Is there a module which can cause "edit this" type links to display on a content page, say a book page, inviting users to contribute or edit content? It is a bit convoluted to login, go to administer on the menu, find the content item, then find your item in a listing, click Edit.
If this needs to be done within a specific module, perhaps module authors could consider this. Or perhaps a hook could be created like the help hook that would enable a standard way of presenting "edit this" type links for any kind of content.
I only noticed this today...but, you can now tag your posts for the version of Drupal it refers to ...nice one guys (the guys at Drupal.org) it's a minor change, but, it will help immensely in future when searching.
As a quick suggestion..is it possible to automatically tag all posts made before, let's say, September 1st 2005 to be tagged as "Drupal 4.6 or earlier"?
I think it's unlikely that people will go back and edit all their old posts to re-tag them appropriately. So at least that will give the older posts some sort of legacy.
Messing around with the code, I've noticed an annoying paucity of nice identifiers. Too often information is indexed by integer when it could have perfectly well have been a nice label.
hook_block() is my first target. I scratch my head over the meaning of $delta (bad variable name too - it's not changing it's selecting)
So each different block type a module declares has an integer index. We have "Module Block #1", "Module Block #2" etc. I guess the design decision made sense once upon a time, but no more. I can have "Tree Block" and "List Block" instead!
We conducted a standard six-user usability test on BlufftonToday.com recently. I watched the two-hour video synopsis yesterday and was struck by the number of people who found the "formatting guidelines" on the input form to be confusing. As soon as we figure out how to shut them off, we're going to declutter the form. The "compose tips" link supplies the same information for power users.