Posted on November 2, 2006 | Tags:
We’re happy to announce that the initial blog-based site for the NewAssignment.Net project has launched:
http://www.newassignment.net/
This is a Drupal 4.7.4 install with a modified Andreas09 theme. We’re utilizing Ber Kessles’s quicktags module for easier editing (as opposed to a “WYSIWYG” editor like TinyMCE) as the principal writers are all comfortable looking at HTML. We’re fans of HTML literacy, part of our commitment to capacity building, and I’m looking forward to embracing Ber’s module and writing my own hooks.
You can see the editing interface as it stands here:
This editor will expand over time. Using the FormAPI and the templating system, we plan to create a special page for editing posts — similar to the Wordpress “dashboard” in feeling — which allow for a much larger editor window (with a larger, more readable font) as well as special sidebars devoted to posting options.
As you can see, we’re also using the Image Assist module, by Benjamin Shell for placement of inline images, which required a couple of tweaks:
