News and announcements

I am with Veterans for Peace a non-profit group on the ground in New Orleans. We have been bringing food, water and supplies to a number of independent community organizations in New Orleans. These organizations are coordinating and acting for the collective good. We would like to have a Drupal portal built and maintained for these groups. We are seeking volunteers who could do the initial setup and training. It is not neccessary to be physically in New Orleans. We have quite a few geeks already here who could do most of the heavy lifting.

I released a country level ip locator Drupal module.
You can download and/or test it here http://www.para.ro/en/node/130.

The mail_validator 1.0.2 released.
You can download and/or test it here: http://www.para.ro/en/node/122.

Upgrading your existing mail validator module is strongly recommended.

I developed a new Drupal 4.6.3 module (or plug-in) which validates an e-mail address.
You can download it from http://www.para.ro/node/95. There is a demo there, also.

Drupal Theme Generator version 1.0
©2005 by Sam Raheb
October 16, 2005
Designed for use with Drupal versions 4.6.1 or greater

Features:
• Generate an unlimited amount of site themes for Drupal CMS type websites in minutes
• Supports both flat (non-graphical) and graphic enhanced themes
• Includes META tag support
• Includes 4 graphically enhanced 3D website themes
• Includes a theme development test area
• Easy to use spreadsheet interface
• Totally customizable

System Requirements:
This program was developed in Microsoft Excel 2000. You will need Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, or 2003 to run it.

Why developed it?
I have been using Drupal since May 2005 and noticed that there is a short supply of themes available for users. Also, since this time there are very few new themes introduced. It takes quite a bit of time to develop a single new theme, therefore I can understand why.

For these reasons, I decided to write an Excel program that generates both the xtemplate.xtmpl and style.css theme files based on user design inputs. After uploading these two generated files to your web server, you will have a completely new looking website. This way you will never have to wait for new themes to be introduced because you can generate completely new ones in minutes.

Where to get the Program:
http://xlecom.com (look under the "Other Items" Menu)

Included Themes: