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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Meeting of the awesome local Drupal group you always wanted to attend - now ON CAMPUS each 2nd Thursday!
Underneath the Wardlaw building, see detailed directions on our GT Drupal site.
Visit the ADUG meetup site for more information on this month's meeting.
Filling in the Gaps of Contributed Modules
Grady Wring will discuss how Cool Blue Interactive used contributed modules to build a website that builds other websites in a matter of minutes. While 90% of this site was built using contributed modules, the real magic is in the final 10%, filling in the gaps between module functionality.
Our client had a problem. They had dozens of websites all with the same goals and similar content spread across many different CMS platforms, or no CMS at all, and they all looked completely different from one another. Cool Blue Interactive was tasked with bringing all of these sites under one roof, so to speak. Our requirements were to rebuild all of these individual sites in Drupal using the same theme, which we could then use for all new sites in the future as well.
While we could have solved this problem several different ways, we chose to use the Domain Access module combined with other contributed modules to build one site instead of many. In this presentation, we will show you how we glued all the pieces together with a few modules of our own to fill in the gaps and create a truly useful tool for our client.
