Even though this has now been out for two months, here are some photos (finally!) of the finished product. It’s available at Arise! (and soon some other local spots) for purchase. Only $6!

Though I didn’t do the drawings (that was Dylan, Michelle & Jasmine), I did all the layout and design in Indesign, dropping in all the locations we exported from the google map in the Drupal site. I traced all the bike routes, which nearly gave me carpal tunnel.

Check out the website: atlas.arisebookstore.org to make additions for next year!

For the first time in many years, I alphabetized my records — and counted them. I have 276. A modest number — I’m not a collector by any means. The high counts? Elvis Costello and the World Inferno Friendship Society each with 5, Guts Pie Earshot with 6, The Smiths with 7, and The Clash with 8. No duplicates, and only one that was still sealed.

I did the following presentation at DrupalDaze last weekend. It is for very beginner users to understand how Drupal themes are made!

First, make sure your site (or page) is very stripped down. Take out anything that might make it complicated — like javascript or anything dynamic. You can add functions back in later.

We’ll start with a page that looks like this as an example:

http://www.pinkslipmedia.org/ideacoop

It’s pretty simple. You have two menus (one won’t be dynamic since it is image-based and the other in a sidebar that can readily expand with other blocks) content title, content, images, and a footer.

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Credit where credit’s due — The Art Lab’s original post about this “maintainable gallery”. I’m only updating this with adding on how to do multiple galleries.

First: a fresh install on Drupal 5.8 (Drupal 6 modules aren’t QUITE there yet, I tried!)

Enable Clean URLs

Required modules

• CCK
• Imagefield
• Image API
• Imagecache
• Views
• View Bonus Pack
• Thickbox

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Drupal Daze is this weekend. I’ll be posting my presentation notes here shortly as I prepare. Very exciting!

So pleased to be able to make this poster. I’m so psyched for this show, even a month in advance…

** Forgot to note, this show was July 21, the date was corrected before it went to print! **

Please listen to Always Wanting More. You will be.