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Users, roles and permissions

Submitted by Hagen Graf on 28. July 2010 - 11:28

As in real life, for a content management system, it is not as easy to decide who can do what.

User account

To create, modify and delete content in a content management system, you need a user account. This account contains at least a username and a password. Both are necessary for the system to remember who is the author or creator of that content. Often the e-mail address is queried to send an activation link to that e-mail address. If the potential user receives that e-mail and is able to answer or click on the activation link, most systems assume that this user is a "human being" and not a spam program.Read more

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zero2hero day 3 - looking for example websites

Submitted by Hagen Graf on 26. July 2010 - 18:31

In the morning I tweetet, that I am looking for examples sites made with Drupal, Joomla und Wordpress.

The result were two websites :-)

Templates

Submitted by Hagen Graf on 26. July 2010 - 12:01

A template or theme is a kind of visual editing pattern that is placed on the top of content. A template defines the colors, character fonts, font sizes, background images, spacing, and partitioning of the page, in other words, everything that has to do with the appearance of a page.

A template is made up of at least one HTML file for the structure of the page and one CSS file for the design.

Templates have the big advantage that the design of a website can be completely changed without altering the content.

Content management systems usually have different templates for the frontend and the backend.

A few examples for the use of different templates, which renders the same content:Read more

zero2hero - Day 2

Submitted by Hagen Graf on 16. July 2010 - 19:25

Today I have written a German introduction to Wordpress 3.0. This is the result ... Einleitung.

Shortly after, I received a motivation tweet from @podlebar

I need to find a way how I can deal with writing and grammar mistakes. This morning I had a comment by Marcel about this topic. I wonder if I should use version control or whether this makes it too complicated.

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zero2hero - Day 1

Submitted by Hagen Graf on 15. July 2010 - 18:52

Today I thought about how I'm organizing everything and I described my project (My next three months). @JooDeu, @sigsiu_net, @SeoSuka, @warnemann, @UlrikaHall, @web2feed, @murgeys and @linobertrand retweetet it and @manfredrein has posted the first comment - (thanks for that)Read more

My next three months

Submitted by Hagen Graf on 15. July 2010 - 10:42

The initial plan was to write a Joomla! 1.6 book and to start today. I promised it to my publisher :-)

Now I am thinking about this project ... and I decide to expand the project.

I have experiences in working with Joomla!, Drupal and Wordpress:Read more

The software:
In all professional web projects I was involved in during the past two years the problem was not the software. More or less every task I have seen could be solved with Joomla!, Drupal and Wordpress.
For this reason I would like to write three books :-)
The language:
My mother tongue is German and I know so many German words. But we are only 120.000.000 speakers. I live in France and have to speak French. My knowledge of the French language is lousy, but they have 500.000.000 speakers. And what am I doing right now? I write the first text about my project in my spaghetti English (500 million–1.8 billion speakers).
For this reason I would like to write the three books in three languages German, French and English with the option to add more languages.
The medium:
It's hard to earn money with printed paper so I decide to publish the "books" online for free on our website.
I did this in 2008 with my Drupal 6 book (German) and my Joomla 1.5 book (German and French).
To spread the knowledge I would love to have three apps (iPhone, Blackberry, Android) for the three books in three languages.
The timeframe:
This is a little bit hard. I have three weeks in a month (9am-5pm) in the next three months (until october, 15th 2010).
The process:
I will start writing in German. Then I will translate it into English and my beloved daugther Isabell will proof read it. For the French version I have no real idea at the moment (any volunteers?).
What about you?
You will have three advantages
1. You can follow the process online and live.
2. You will get a freely available course of how to create a Website with those three content management systems.
3. You can participate in the project by giving feedback
Official hashtag
If you write about this project please use the hashtag #zero2hero

2010-01 Timisoara, Romania

Submitted by Christine Graf on 2. February 2010 - 15:46

I was not really excited to go to Timisoara at this time of the year because of the cold weather, but the perspective meeting good old colleague-friends kept me warm.
We came together for a doing2learn project meeting, sharing our work we have done, difficulties we had and still have and discussed how to proceed.

I have been doing these European projects since seven years now and it is very often quite disenchanting and frustrating. There are many players in the ring with different motives which are not always conform with the meaning of the project or the European framework. Mostly, those people who created the project and carried out the work are enthusiastic at the beginning, trying to bring fresh ideas into their organisations and trying to motivate people to broaden their horizon by learning something.Read more

Location

Timisoara

Romania

45° 45' 6.084" N, 21° 13' 50.0736" E

2010-01 Grundtvig Conference Brussels

Submitted by Isabell Schulz on 1. February 2010 - 11:57

2010 is the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion in adult education. To start his year, the European Commission organised a conference in Brussels, Management Centre of Europe, over three days (26-28 January 2010).
It was the first time I attended a conference like this, and I wanted to take the opportunity to not only meet people and new potential partners, but also to promote eduate.eu. I was the first one to arrive at the Centre and, hence could see who was coming in, and who'd be my first target. :-)
Over the three days, I learned a lot about what those people would like to have and what they need. I questioned and listened to them in the plenary, in workshops and, of course, one on one.
I noticed what people want is a tool to disseminate their projects and outcomes, a tool to network and to see what others are up to, a tool that is simple and easy to use.Read more

2009-12 Cieszyn, Poland

Submitted by Christine Graf on 16. December 2009 - 13:48

This was my third trip to Poland. The first one I made in the early 90s, private, searching traces of someone's family. I have uncomfortable memories from that trip, not only because we visited the Auschwitz concentration camp, the whole environment was a bit strange. The second time I travelled to Poland, at the end of the 90s, I stayed in Krakow and I was surprised how vital the city was, even though the whole centre was a big re-construction site.

Now also my third trip, the time couldn't be worse. It was very cold, wet and dark and I haven't seen any blue sky for 4 days.
A French teacher picked us up at Krakow airport to ease the conversation during the two hours drive to Cieszyn (usually, French people do not speak English, might be a prejudice, but it is often true).
On the way to Cieszyn, we passed Oswiecim, saw the museum of the concentration camp and I still got the creeps. I can't imagine how to live in such a place with the visibility of the horrifying past.Read more

Location

Poland

49° 45' 0.7848" N, 18° 37' 53.1804" E

Enough - John Naish

Submitted by Hagen Graf on 12. December 2009 - 18:25

The book has a simple mission

realize when it is enough
- stop working when it is enough
- stop eating when it is enough
- stop consuming when it is enough
- stop YOU-NAME-IT when it is enough

My problem is sometimes to notice when it is enough.

It is this kind of cycle: more work -> more money -> more needs -> more things .... you know it.Read more