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Web Team—December 2008

marinemetadata.org release 1.1 was accomplished, major update to site functionality

December showed significant updates to the marinemetadata.org website. We rolled out version 1.1 of the site (1.0 being the first Drupal release of marinemetadata.org, though the tag wasn't created until October, with 1.0.1 coming in November).

New Features

Feedback
1. Click link at bottom to expose form, fill out, send, and form disappears
2. People with admin access will see feedback messages in the form itself
3. Messages can also be viewed at admin/logs/feedback, where they can be checked off, indicating they were 'dealt with' (need workflow for this)
4. Checked in IE7, FF3, Chrome, Safari 3
Save as Draft (creates a new revision without making the newer revision active)
1. Enabled on Guide content type only for now
2. Allows a new revision to exist but not be made current
CCK Blocks
1. Enables a CCK field on a node to appear in a block
Default filter type on a per-content-type basis
1. Sets glossay-full-html as the default when working with Guide
"In this section" header added to book navigation
New Guide type
1. node/add/guide
New Guides template with some new blocks
1. Not all blocks implemented. Missing: citation (simple) and glossary terms (harder)
2. I don't like the position of the guides authors, but it's a simple change. This wasn't on the mockup from Caryn.
3. Converted samples can be viewed here:
  1. http://dev.marinemetadata.org/guides/vocabs
  2. http://dev.marinemetadata.org/guides/vocabs/vocdef
4. Pathauto is configured to use the vocabulary Guides URL Path
Glossary Module
1. First off, want to say that I think this is REALLY useful and well-implemented
2. Enabled for guides content using existing Guides Glossary vocab.
3. Currently highlights a word, italicizes it, creates a hyperlink to the glossary definition, and provides a tooltip on hover which includes the definition. Uses the html dfn element, which is a standards-based way to tag definitions
4. Visit the whole glossary at: /glossary or browse the guides pages which have been converted (or edit one and change the input type to glossary-full-html).
5. Problems remain: when set to highlight the first instance of a term only, if the first instance of a term is in a tag you explicitly tell glossary to ignore, it doesn't change the formatting of the term in the ignored tag but it also doesn't get the next instance and modify it. For example, we probably don't want terms in <h2> tags to appear glossary-stylized, but that's the only way some terms will show if we use only the first instance. Personally, I think we could highlight all terms. I don't find it obtrusive while reading.

Bug Fixes

Taxonomy Manager functions properly (http://drupal.org/node/280202). Note: you may need to hit ctrl+F5 or otherwise clear the cache to see the results.
Probably others (maybe unreported). Issues database will be updated as necessary.

Custom(ized) Modules and Themes

CCK Blocks (customized to make content appear in lists)
Feedback (heavily customized)
Added page-nodetype-guide.tpl.php to customize guide content. If you want a block to appear on the right-hand side of guides, put it into the "guides right" category.
Book module customized to add 'In this section' (copied to sites/all/modules/custom)