Php on UO Shell the bare minimum
I wanted to redirect a shell site to a new WPMU site on the UO’s Web Site Lite setup. http://sites.uoregon.edu/. Web Site Lite is great, but it has limitations. Since I wanted to redirect all the old...
View ArticleOUS updates site and broken links
We’ve come across a few broken OUS site links recently and I wanted to pass on a fix. Here’s an example: The IT Performance Appraisal Instructions were formerly at:...
View ArticleAdded jQuery browser check for ODT and Skillport eLearning
I noticed a mac user getting frustrated when trying to log in to the eLearning site the other day. The log in process was hung up on the loading screen for a few minutes: I pointed out that it said...
View ArticleUsed jQuery to add a header for a group of courses
We had a group of courses for Take our Daughter and Sons to Work Day added to Making Tracks that all used the abbreviation of the name in their title: TODSTWD. They didn’t spell out the event name...
View ArticleUpdated administration theme
I updated the Admin theme so things will look a little different now. The old theme has some conflicts in the code that is causing drupal to erase any former page urls… this is a bad thing. Changing...
View ArticleInstalled a new admin menu
I moved the administrative menu out of the body of the site today. Putting it in a flyout menu in the upper left hand corner of the site. . When opening the menu you’ll see your standard options the...
View ArticleDrupal 6 – Theming search results to remove the cruft…
The default search page output contains an ‘info’ line below each result. This line contains the Author name – content type – last updated date – # comments – # attachments. I wanted to hide most of...
View ArticleAdded new styles to node titles and background image
I updated the styles on the hr site today. Removing the box around the page title and lightening the background image. Before: After:
View ArticleUpdated the 'featured nodes' view for each book
I created a new block display in our frontpage_book_section view to display a more customized output. Previously we had boxes with each ‘promoted’ node showing the title, teaser and ‘Read more’ link....
View ArticleUpdated views to speed up admin pages
Commented out recordCount function in feedback and site_migration_list views. That function was running very slow; 540ms per page load in the case of the migration block. Perhaps it’s the lack of...
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