Building The Site

Articles that have more to do with the nuts and bolts of disastercommohio.org instead of the mission.

Another upgrade

It's important to keep your site and modules up-to-date if you want to keep control of your page. There were some minor security fixes in 7.12. I haven't noticed any issues post-upgrade.

New Module: Syntax highlighting

In an effort to make source code included in projects more readable we've added Syntax Highlighting.

Syntax highlight code surrounded by the <pre class="brush: lang">...</pre> tags, where lang is one of the following language brushes: diff, jscript, java, perl, php, python, ruby. See the site for additional help.

For example:

Creating Schematics for the Site

There were two hurdles impeding me from finishing my writeup of the Telemetry demo: how to present the various code examples in a visibly-pleasing manner and how to easily draw schematics that are accurate and communicate clearly.

The first problem will be solved later using a syntax mark-up module, the second is tonight's topic.

I saw images like the one below and wanted to make something similar.

Using in-line CSS

If one examines the HTML source on a recent project (http://www.disastercommohio.org/?q=node/33) they will notice that I included a lot of CSS inline in the content. This mostly illustrates where I'm at the "knows enough to be dangerous" stage. I've skimmed a couple of books on CSS and know what effects I want to present in the page, but I'm not smart enough to integrate them into the Drupal Themes.

New Taxonomy Term: MCC

The American Red Cross of Greater Columbus' Mobile Communications Center holds a special place in our heart. We learned a lot while working to modify the vehicle and have spent a lot of hours at demos and drills and incidents in her. We'll be writing a lot about those experiences, so we'd like to link them all together in one place. So I've added a new tag: MCC. I set up a URL alias so that there's a cleaner link to this collection here.

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