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Re: 5 tips for choosing the right company to move your site to Drupal 8

Wim Mostrey — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 01:24:06 -0000

Your first question should be: is there a reason to migrate my Drupal 6 site to Drupal 8 instead of Drupal 7. As mentioned in https://www.drupal.org/8/faq#3 "there’s no site maintenance reason to upgrade right away. Drupal 7 will be supported long after Drupal 8 is officially released." Especially for sites that have a lot of custom code, it might be a better idea to get estimates for a migration to Drupal 7, as it will most likely be easier, faster and thus less expensive to do.

Re: Is Drupal's complexity turning people off? Hurm...

Wim Mostrey — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:26:22 -0000

You're right, it's Blogspot.com instead of Wordpress.com.

Re: Is Drupal's complexity turning people off? Hurm...

Wim Mostrey — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:40:44 -0000

Hi David,

I'm not sure what your expectations are. If you're happy with Drupal 6, then just continue to use Drupal 6. Just because Drupal 7 is out doesn't mean you have to migrate all your sites immediately. Drupal 6 will keep getting supported the next 3 or 4 years, in which many of the contributed modules (including the Media module) will have stable releases.

Comparing a self-installed Drupal installation with a Wordpress.com blog doesn't really add up. Wordpress.com is a service. It might be a good experiment for you to host your next few projects on DrupalGardens.com which runs Drupal 7 as a service. It's a good way to get used to Drupal 7 in a controlled and well-tested environment, using stable modules.

Best of luck,
Wim

Re: Persist your session across your desktop and mobile site

Wim Mostrey — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:40:30 -0000

I'm curious: does the leading dot mean that the cookie would not be shared with http://drupal.org (without a subdomain)?

Re: Certification schmertification! Metrics schmetrics! Measuring the Drupal social/rockstar graph

Wim Mostrey — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 01:38:09 -0000

Kris (EclipseGc) and Moshe nail it: CTR is all about measuring a person's activity on drupal.org.

Perhaps the whole commotion comes from the term 'Certification' in the name 'Certified to Rock'. If it had been named the more lightly 'Drupal.org's Reputation, Uberty, Productivity and Activity Level Meter' (DRUPAL Meter) then everything would be just fine.

Re: Increasing participation through social logins

Wim Mostrey — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:15:31 -0000

There are some disadvantages about using a system like Disqus and that is that your site will never gather user information. So for instance you will not be able to send them a newsletter or have them participate in a quiz. When talking about social logins I think about allowing people to use their twitter or facebook credentials to log-in to your site. And yes, there are plenty of Drupal modules that allow you to do so:

http://mostrey.be/registrat...

Re: First alpha of OAuth Connector released

Wim Mostrey — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:56:54 -0000

The functionality is much needed and the ability to add custom connectors that use the API is great. When it comes to usability and graphic appeal however the module leaves much to desire. The last few months a couple of good alternatives have appeared, such as Gigya: http://mostrey.be/registrat...

Re: Drupal Association election application

Wim Mostrey — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:50:00 -0000

Good luck Tim, and don't forget to fill in the form ;)

http://association.drupal.o...

Re: Finally got my new landing page off the ground! =)

Wim Mostrey — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:34:09 -0000

Hi Sacha,

First of all I love your slidecast! I feel like there's too much information on the new landing page. For instance you have duplicate navigation links. On top you have a link to "about" and "blog" and on the second column you have a link to "more about me" and "check out my blog". I also feels you're trying to put too much information which tends to overlap: so you have the two blog menu links and then there's also "recent blog posts" and "random blog posts". Then you have the "blog topics" tags and the "what I'm reading" is another tag cloud. And then there's all the "about" information. You have the duplicate links, the actual about page, the information on the front page and the slidecast.

Here are the content blocks that I would keep: On the left I would remove the about information and just keep the recent blog posts and recent books. On the right I would have just one column with your slidecast and the upcoming events. That's it. The links to your linkedin and twitter profile could go in your separate about page, along with the information you currently have on the "Welcome" section. This would mean that your frontpage would fit in one screen for most people.

Aaron Winborn made a great topic about minimalist drupal themes on which I replied with my thoughts on the subject, you might want to check it out.

By the way, a while back IBM did a great series of articles on implementing open source solutions and specifically using Drupal to do so: http://www.ibm.com/develope.... Those articles made it to the Drupal Planet and received a lot of praise from the community.

Re: A Derivative of Open Source: What is Crowdsourcing?

Wim Mostrey — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:37:07 -0000

A while back Emma Jane also posted an interesting article on Crowdsourcing and Gift Economies, definitely worth checking out.

Re: Making Efficient Tag Clouds With Drupal’s Taxonomy

Wim Mostrey — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:31:27 -0000

It should be noted that there is a patch RTBC to increase performance for the tagadelic module: http://drupal.org/node/193057.

Re: Why I am using Skribit

Wim Mostrey — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:23:58 -0000

Is there a specific reason you are not using Skribit anymore? It brought up a couple of good ideas and blogs so I'm curious to know why you stopped using it again (at least on this site as far as I can see).

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

Wim Mostrey — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:17:23 -0000

The 10th commandment is "No really, do not hack core".

Re: Unspoken Rules of Drupal

Wim Mostrey — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:26:55 -0000

Or a discussion on RTE or WYSIWYG. For a bit of magic, mix both and start a discussion about why we can't include the TinyMCE software with the TinyMCE module.

Re: Blog to it - Development

Wim Mostrey — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:11:51 -0000

The url has changed since, it has lost the /dev suffix. The correct url is now http://blogtoit.millwoodonl....

I really like where Blog To It is going, I think there's going to be a great synergy between DrupalMU and BTI. Good stuff!

Re: Drupal 7 Code Freeze = Two Months?

Wim Mostrey — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:58:03 -0000

And that's a good thing. In the first few months of Drupal 6, with lack of a D6 version for views and panels I was afraid D6 was going into history as "the version that got skipped". With it having a much longer lifespan and the first apha version of Panels2 available, I'm glad this isn't the case. Expanding the lifespan definitely seems like a good idea to me, making D6 an important milestone in the history of Drupal and a springboard for Drupal 7.

Re: Is Drupal too general?

Wim Mostrey — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:29:04 -0000

What you're looking for are installation profiles. These are basically packages of modules that you install on top of a basic Drupal installation. There's for instance "Innovation News Installation Profile" to set up a newspaper website, "Single-User Blog" for blogging, "Wiki installation profile" to set up a wiki, ... The thing with packages like Elgg and Moodle is that they contain "everything you need" but customizing them can get tricky. A basic Drupal installation provides you the basics of an CMS/CMF and you can install contributed modules for each specific function you require.

You make it sound like installing contributed modules but really that's what Drupal is all about. It doesn't force you to run your site this way or that way, it allows you to pick whatever solution you like. One example: Wordpress comes with a wysiwyg pre-installed while Drupal does not. Drupal however allows you to choose which wysiwyg or mark-up module you prefer, or if you even want one altogether.