Drupal

The task

It's the first time I look into this.  I have some data in Excel and want it go into CCK fields. Concrete case: import pictures for the MIMO gallery and create the normal node and CCK fields easily. Of course I could save CSV or import to mysql table if I have to. 

Choosing the Module

First glance at 6.x modules indicates that Migrate seems to be most appropriate and ready for use. So, I start testing it on a test server.

Migrate

I have too many drupal sites now and updating modules etc (i.e. standard tasks) start to get annoying. I wonder if there are already tools to control drupal remotely and if I should write some small scripts using WWW::Mechanize or something else.

Also, I wonder if I should write web tests for the drupal sites I am developing.

This is just an idea. Here are some links I find helpful:

puh. I think this was the third attempt I tried to fix this problem. Finally, it seems to work. As so often, the problem seems usual enough and one sometimes wonders that Drupal is not better with these very common things. But, let's be more concrete.

I have a site where I want to display news. News are classified in various categories using taxonomy terms. Now, I want these categories to appear in the menu and the menu items active when I see the posts. Just common-sense functionality, one would think.

So todayMarinelli Strange Text I battled with theming for the first time. I like the Marinelli theme, but the text behaves unlike standard Drupal themes, so I decided to make that more conform to Drupal standards. Attached is the result. I changed the ul and ol li as well as blockquote. Currently, Marinelli tends to display text a little awkward by default.