My First Civicspace / Drupal Site

I am working on converting the existing Student Environmental Action Coalition website so that it runs on Civicspace/Drupal.



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New Version




Old Version



I still need to do some work on the SEAC logo, the color scheme, increasing the visibility of the navigation menu, and I'm going to rewrite all the forms so that they aren't so long (we had some 400+ line html pages) and to switch from using CGI to PHP for the form processing.



Some of the Advantages that I came up with for advocating this transition include:

• Structure - maintain site structure: there is a stronger structure
  (categories, sub-categories), which you can see from the navigation
  system.

• Dynamic - incorporate dynamic content - ex. feeds from
  campusactivism.org or other organizations once they implement them
  (NYSPC, CIW, coalition partners, etc).

• Blog: let people have blogs to create dynamic content about their
  group, campaign, politics, etc

• Commenting - allow for commenting. You can add your opinions to many
  pages. While we can ban anonymous users, who would spam us, from
  commenting.

• Moderation: we can restrict who can create new pages to people we
  trust, and for others there is a queue system so their page is sent
  to an administrator for approval.

• Editing pages directly - you don't need to upload a page. FTP/Winscp
  becomes largely unnecessary for most people.

• Improvements - this system will be constantly improved. For instance
  people are connecting it to an online database, working on mass
  mailing, mapping, and other functions. It's also being used and
  supported by liberals as a community platform for nonprofits.

  It will be interesting to see how well people pick up on learning how to use the software.