Re: Drupal
- From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:30:38 -0500
Yes, Mojo Portal sounds like it's from heaven and all you need to do is blink
to have your site built.
As for the Drupal questions, if you are developing live on the web server
hosting yoursite then you can do all of your view building and theme
modifications live on the server.
Views are built with a GUI which is accessible, but has a pretty steep learning
curve even for those who can see the GUI.
Themes consist of CSS files, image files, template files (which are mostly html
with a hand full of php print statements), and a templat.php file which
consists of the theme override functions, if you need to use any.
So, you can do theming without knowing anything about PHP, but a little
knowledge is useful.
It really depends on where your site is hosted the degree of access they
provide to your files. If you have a web host that allows you access to upload
php files and to modify the permissions for the files that is all you need to
be able to upload and modify modules and themes.
HTH,
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On 2010-12-15, at 11:03 AM, Katherine Moss wrote:
> That’s why you use Mojo Portal. Mojo doesn’t have any of these type of
> issues. It’s fully customizable.
>
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of RicksPlace
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 7:51 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Drupal
>
> Hi Everett: I have done a little poking around google to look at some Drupal
> sites. I find many, many with very rough interfaces when using a screen
> reader and some that you could not tell from a custom website - really nicely
> laid out. Most of the Government sites were pretty nice and straight forward.
> If I want to build or modify templates, views and third party modules would I
> need the PHP development stuff on my local machine or do the Drupal Hosts
> allow for that level of programming by the nature of Drupal itself?
> Most of the sites I have looked at that are demos displayed by some of the
> hosts I have looked at re not very clean with a screen reader. Duplicat links
> like having a link labeled HOME and then right after the link having a List
> with one link in the LIst labeled HOME. Of course the Screen reader reads the
> Home Link then something like List 1 with 1 item and then cursoring down you
> get the HOME link, the second HOME link, again and then the notification that
> you are at the end of the list. I notice this type of duplication allot in
> Drupal sites but not in all of them. This would be the type of thing I would
> want to get rid of so my sites look like normal, hand coded, websites and not
> canned webpages. Anyway, Can I make the programming mods necessary online or
> would I need a local development environment to work with the MySql DB stuff,
> the PHP and whatever else might be involved.
> Thanks:
> Rick USA
>
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