links for 2009-07-28

  • Fancy Login adds javascript based, lightbox-style login functionality to your site. When the user clicks on any link that links to /user/login, they screen dims and a login box is created in the center of the screen.
  • Atom is an XML specification that identifies information contained in a Web site. Using Atom, Web developers produce feeds that enable other Web developers (or consumers who use feed readers) to quickly locate and view information of interest on a remote site. Think of it as a Web site's index, available to anyone who wants it. Using PHP, a popular language of choice for most host providers, a Web developer can easily produce an Atom feed that can then be made available to the various feed readers and other Web developers. The ultimate result is a state-of-the-art information solution that enables the Web content to reach a much wider audience.
  • This module provides a Drupal interface to use the W3C Markup Validator.

    It also provides a module that validates all the pages on your site and stores the results for later review.

    Currently the module only validate nodes and views (page displays) but it's planed to expand it to validate more page types.

    (tags: drupal module w3c)
  • This module loads and manages OpenSecrets bulk data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP).

links for 2009-07-25

  • The Link Resolver Module provides Drupal with a local mechanism to add and maintain institutional link resolver data (institution name, resolver url, etc). Data can be added manually but is also "automagically" captured via the WorldCat OpenURL Gateway IP lookup service as users visit your site, imported en masse via CVS (a default list is included in the module) or added via a WorldCat Registry Institutional ID lookup.
    (tags: drupal module)

links for 2009-07-24

  • Gigya Socialize provides a single API that aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Twitter, and OpenID webmail providers including Google, Yahoo, and AOL. The Gigya module for Drupal is fully configurable, requiring little time to install.
  • This module pulls together the techniques Jeff Eaton outlined in http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach to automatically create a simple gallery where each gallery is a node with an embedded view of images that were assigned to that gallery. The module creates the content types, sets up the imagecache presets, creates the default gallery view that is embedded into the gallery nodes by Views Attach, and adds css to make it all look nice.
  • This document shows how RSS 2.0's <cloud> element can be used to connect a small Twitter-like network of people and 140-character status messages.

links for 2009-07-23

  • This module provides a toolbar at the bottom of the window, like Facebook's Application Bar, which shows links (from a menu) on the left and notifications (from system messages and/or other modules) on the right. It is meant to provide an easy way for users to see alerts or get to certain parts of the site.
    (tags: drupal module)
  • Link Weights is a utility module that allows you to rearrange the order that links display in the links section of nodes. For example, with this module you can display flags and commenting links before sharing and printing links.
    (tags: drupal module)

links for 2009-07-08