Security - We will get there

It's about time and I have no excuse to postpone the upgrade for this little site.

Basically I want to leverage the latest SEO, social networkings tools etc and get rid of the security risks of the older versions. At the same time, I am combining my drupal sites together so I can host new drupal applications more easily.

To fix the CSS security vulnerabilities.

I did the backup for both files and db, then copy over the new version, copy back the file .htaccess and sites/default/settings.php, then run the update.php. All went smoothly and the site is up in 30 minutes.

 

Recently drupal.org turned off the site search function but suggested to use google instead. Here is the snippet from Eric which is great for my drupal based website too.

"I almost always use site:drupal.org -site:lists.drupal.org -site:cvs.drupal.org -site:api.drupal.org at google.com to search through the forums and the rest of Drupal.org."

From the Improvements to the Drupal.org infrastructure posted at drupal.org, you can have some idea on what the folks are working on.

Here is the whole article for my reference:

Addressbook Alinks Automated Node Title Backup Calendar Case Tracker Category Chat room Copyrite Currency Exchange Digg this Drake::Drupal-CakePHP bridge Node time tracker Views scheduler Node Teaser Node style Leech prepopulate

• 10 Minute Multisite Install & Configuration
• Drupal group for Ruby on Rails
• Drupal screencast from openconcept.ca
• Building a custom module in Drupal

This  nodeaccess module will give me more granular control based on both node type and individual node. The configuration has two steps. To determine which node type has this type of grant capability and grant the node's permission to either role or user.

Just installed the Technorati module and hopefully it will work soon.

1. Customize theme Always create themes directory under sites/all and copy the theme your want to customize under it, then change the name of the theme directory and enable it from drupal admin. When combine Firebug to modify  the css style sheet, you are ready to go.

I came across OpenWebSuite as I was searching for a tool to develope theme for drupal. It can help you create both html and css files with some sort of generator/code insertion/snippet etc. And it can do tag auto-completion as well.

It's still in the early development but worth to have a look. When combined with Firebug, I should be able to get my themes done much easier.

Other tools like TurboCSS, Personal web editor etc I came accross are either too premature or just don't serve my purpose.