Friday, May 6, 2011

Overall feelings for drupal

I am glad that we used drupal for this course becuase it made me see a different side of webpage design. I think I liked it better than dreamweaver becuase it is easy to use and the codes are even easier. I think that this is someting that I could use in the future after I graduate.

Views

This module can also be used to help set up panels. This is a good module to have becuase it helps make your panels work even better. With veiws it can help you better make columns and make your website look more perfessional.

Panels

This was actully one module that I could easily figure out how to use. The way I established this on the website was by using this panal to show my timeline of important events of radio. This was easy to use all you had to do was to go to add content, then you choose panels. They gave you different options on what you wanted to use than you just plug your contact in.

Jplayer and Media

After I tried the Audio and it didn't work I then decided to use Jplayer and Media. I had no luck with these either, and I also could not find any informaton on how to get it to work. Since I could not work with the audio modules, I ended up loading the podcast on a website called archive.org, and ended up just embedding the files on the site.

Audio

This module is desinged to help you put audio onto your website which I was going to use to put my podcasts on the website. I could not figure out this module however and it was difficult trying to find helpfull hints on how to work this on the site.

Administration

This module is to help you easily set up navigation and has easy ways for you to format your site. I found this easy becuase since I am new to Drupal it has dropdown menus that help you navigate through your site. This module also was helpfull when it came to format the site.

Marinelli

This was the first template that I choiced to use, however this template just gave me a headache it was hard to use, so I ended up changing to Danland. Danland is so much easier to use and I even found it easy to change the slideshow picture at the beginning of the site.