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One of the criticisms one hears about Drupal is that it does not include a WYSIWYG editor in the the core distribution. I've never had much of an opinion about this one way or the other. I do most of my substantial writing locally and use the old copy and paste technique to get the resulting xHTML that is generated into Drupal.
For a number of years, I used an html editor called HomeSite for generating and testing my web pages and also as the tool for writing articles and blog posts. It's not a WYSIWYG tool, but I've become quite adept at inserting the xHTML markup as I'm composing text over the years. My mode of operation has changed recently and this is why:
HalfVast6 for Drupal 6.x – This theme, like a number of my Drupal themes, is derived from the classic Zen theme. It is a variable-width theme with a green and gray color scheme. It was originally built for a site that is no longer active. If you plan on using this theme for anything substantial, I recommend that you give the style.css file a good look as it needs some "dusting and cleaning."
- halfvast6 .zip (52.8 KB)
- Compatible with Drupal 6.x
- Tested with IE7+ and Firefox 2.x.x, 3.x.x on Win XP Pro SP3 and Win Vista Ultimate SP1; Firefox 2.x.x, 3.x.x on Linux
- Last updated on 2008-08-21.
HrprFlash for Drupal 6.x – This was the theme in use at HR's Industrial Strength Portal back in 2008. It is based on an original work (NewsFlash) from RoopleTheme. It is a variable-width theme with selectable color schemes. The default color scheme is hrprflash, which uses various shades of blue.
- hrprflash.zip (111.1 KB)
- Compatible with Drupal 6.x
- Tested with IE7+ and Firefox 2.x.x, 3.x.x on SP3 and Win Vista Ultimate SP1; Firefox 2.x.x, 3.x.x on Linux
- Last updated on 2008-11-29.
Drupal 6 RC2 was released yesterday. And, I must also say that the more familiar I have become with Drupal 6, my previous opinion that building Drupal themes is not as straightforward as building Joomla! templates has mellowed quite a bit.
Why the change of heart, you ask? Read on to find out...
Drupal 6 RC1 was released on 21 December. The last Beta (4) was fairly stable so maybe it won't be too long until a Drupal 6 stable release hits the streets. I think there's a good chance that the Drupal 6 and Joomla! 1.5 stable releases might occur within weeks (or maybe days) of each other.
I've been fooling with both Joomla! 1.5 and Drupal 6 for quite a while now. Both are significant improvements over their predecessors. For example, Joomla! 1.5 has made significant improvements in their SEF implementation and intoduced template overrides; Drupal has made significant improvements in caching and has also simplified theming. Buildng Drupal themes is still not as straight forward as templating in Joomla!, but this lastest release takes a big step in the right direction.
Congrats to both the Drupal and Joomla! core teams for making my two favorite CMS's even better!
Today, Packt Publishing announced that Drupal was the winner of its annual Overall Open Source Content Management System Award for 2007.
Joomla!, which was last year's winner in this category, placed second in the voting and also won the Best PHP Open Source Content Management System category award. Drupal garnered second place in that one.
I've been a Joomla! user since the project's inception and have been using Drupal now for the better part of a year. It's nice to see both of them recognized for their contributions to the open source community and to the IT community at large.
