software how-to

How to Post to Drupal using Windows Live Writer

Tue, 09/02/2008 - 11:30pm

I wrote this series on how to post to Drupal using Windows Live Writer because I saw a lot of questions and issues about this on the Drupal forums. I had previously gone through the trial and error process to set this up for a number of people who work for me. We now use Live Writer for initial posts and quick updates to a large site we manage.

I'd like other developers and Drupal service providers to see they can provide this option for clients and that Drupal communicates and does well with modern and useful web technologies such as blogging APIs.

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Configuring Drupal for Posting from External Blogging Applications

Thu, 04/24/2008 - 7:55pm

An external blogging application like Windows Live Writer will allow you to create and publish posts from your desktop to your Drupal site. But, before you can post via one of these applications you’ll need to enable and configure your Blog API module and a few additional settings.

Step 1: Enable the Modules

Enable your Blog and Blog API modules here: admin/build/modules

Enable the Modules

Step 2: Make Content Types Available to External Clients

Select the content types you’d like to make available to external blogging clients: admin/settings/blogapi

Make Content Types Available to External Clients

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Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS for Drupal Themers

Tue, 04/22/2008 - 4:25pm

A brief resource description for Drupal Themers

We'll look at:

What's YUI Grids CSS and what are its benefits?
What's in the library?
How do we use it?

Formats available:QuickTime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv), Text Summary, PDF Summary, PowerPoint Presentation

Note: The sound quality on the low res version is somewhat poor. You may want to watch the High Res QuickTime Movie, or just download the PDF to view.

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