Deprecated - Usability feedback

Drupal uses lower-case titles in its navigation menu and everywhere where tabs are presented to the user. Is this intentional? It looks very unprofessional and visually distracting. Is there some way to enable title-case titles? (Other than manually editing all menu items or creating a 'translation' to proper English.)

Thanks

Hi,

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who's helped build this system. I've been building sites for a while now, and never really liked the idea of giving up control of the code to a CMS. However, over the last couple of months I've played around with a few of the CMSs around (phpwebsite, joomla mambo etc.) and was about to give up on the idea altogether before I had a serious look at drupal.

Two issues are particularly important for me producing code that validates and can be made accessible and making a search engine friendly site, only one of the other systems offer this "straight out of the box" and the other one phpWebsite doesn't seem to have much support.

My experience of installation was that it was remarkably painless. I'm not somebody who really likes to read instructions until I get stuck, and I found the whole setup so intuitive I only had to read a couple of lines here and there to get the whole thing running.

However, I did have one major headache, that was with SEF URLs. I'm new to apache, all my previous sites have been on IIS and it was the SEF URLs functionality that convinced me to make the switch. So a couple of days ago I'd never heard of an .htaccess file. When I switched on SEF I immediately got an error message that was very unelightening. I went through the forums and the support guide but there wasn't really very much succinct information about the .htaccess file that shed any light on the problem.

As most of the standard drupal themes work with flexible layouts, I think it is important to keep in mind, that from a usability perspective the extended line length provided with these themes is in almost any circumstances less than ideal.

To quote a passage from "Web Style Guide - Basic design principles for creating web sites":

Wow - drupal is quite simply amazing!

This morning I built a web site with it - it is much simpler than Joomla or Mambo (same thing I guess) or any of th othr CMS's I tried.

Great job everone!

Brian

http://www.allaboutdolphins.net

I'm not sure if I'm missing some concept, or if this is a limitation of the 4.7 core profile.module. I'm building a site for an organization with profile fields for "Officer" (checkbox) and "Officer Title" (list selection). This gives me a very nice "organization leaders" page with 10-12 profiles without any coding (fantastic feature). I am also using the taxonomy_access.module to classify [other] content as public or members-only.

Issue #1: I don't want members to edit these profile fields and assign themselves as officers.

Issue #2: I *do* want anonymous users to be able to view the organization's profile page at:

   www.example.com/profile/profile_officer    // show officer names & positions held

For example, I don't want Joe Janitor to edit his profile and assign himself as "President" of the organization. This should only be defined by an administrator. I *do* want anonymous users to see the organizational structure.

Is there a way to accomplish this without hacking? The options available at administer > settings > profile are as follows:

• Hidden profile field, only accessible by administrators, modules and themes.
• Private field, content only available to privileged users.
• Public field, content shown on profile page but not used on member list pages.
• Public field, content shown on profile page and on member list pages.

Hi,

I've been into the whole web development thing for a few years.

The first CMS I have ever used was PHP-nuke, I was not happy as I could be, I found it overly complicated, insecure, and it doesn't masquerade itself into the site design and meaning that well. I often find the PHP-nuke's are less made for display of content and more for Community purposes.