Blog: Content Management

Over the past few weeks I took a look at several modules that deal with relating nodes and links to other nodes within the Drupal system. Last week at Drupal Con AMS 2005 Ber Kessels presented on relations systems in Drupal. Defining relations within content can serve as an important supplementary navigation system, particularly on websites where users do not rely on a main navigation system to find content.

For example, take a site like Yahoo! News. If I go to Yahoo! News on a daily basis I first check the headlines. If I find an important article
to read and follow the link to read the article, on the article's page I am given several choices at the bottom of the page. Often, the choices include to select to read other articles based on the same topic as the story I just read, to see related photos, to read related opinion articles, or to read stories that fall under the same topic as the story I read. I may initially use the main navigation system to go and read top articles in the business section, and  once I find the article that interests me and I read it, I can use the website's relations system to read other content related to my attraction.

When will there be a cross-browser cross-platform WYSIWYG editor for CMS's that really gives you what you are seeing, and gives it to you no matter what browser you're using to enter the content?

We just got out of a three day conference over at the World Bank called Web for Development - Telling the Development Story to the World. You can check out the agenda here: http://tinyurl.com/7t4fh. The World Bank has somewhere between 600 and 1000+ websites, of which 40 or 50 are corporate websites, and the remainder, everything else.

I'm interested to see or read about the improvements being made to the image.module, particularly And James Walker is also working on improving the current image.module to provide common services for image handling. This will allow a bunch of separate methods for using images (in a gallery, in a post, ...) to be implemented without duplicate code. these changes sound...

Something which would improve content administration in Drupal would be bulk category-to-node assigning. For example, if you have 200 images to upload, and they must be assigned to 10 different categories, you must import them in ten batches (using the image module). From the content administration overview, if you could click off on the nodes you want to categorize, then select "categorize selected nodes to this term" it might speed...