I'm just back from Le Tour de Langkawi 2007 . Before that, I was in Jelajah Malaysia 2007 . Both are bike races spanning half the Peninsula. I hadn't planned to join Le Tour this year but got pulled in at the last minute. So I had to drop everything as it was just a week before the race started. Now I need a few days to recover looking into what I wanted to do with this website. C'est ma vie!
I have changed the editor from FCKeditor to TinyMCE. This may be temporary here as I may go back to FCKeditor or something else. I needed to use TinyMCE for my other site myhashim.com. TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor has the ability to include a button to insert photos from the Gallery2 albums I have on that site.
Drupal has released version 5.0. This site was running the beta-2 version before. I updated the files to the official release version last night without any problems so far. Drupal issued two release candidates after the beta, but I did not have the time to try them out. I have just finished my stint with Jelajah Malaysia 2007. I also moved the FCKeditor and Gallery modules to the /sites/all/modules/ folder instead of the /modules/ folder I used earlier.
I am in Ipoh city attending a meeting for the Jelejah Malaysia 2007 road cycling tour. Ipoh is one of the start venues of the seven days race. Coincidentally, Ipoh is deploying a free citywide broadband service with 26 base stations scattered around the city. I tested the service using my notebook whilst having coffee at the Old Town Kopitiam terrace with a city official. He said that the contractors were having a problem getting the internet connection stabilized. I managed to get a connection at 54 Mbps and the signal was very strong, but I lost it after a while.
I am using the Garland theme with a custom colour scheme. In the Garland theme, the mission statement, if selected to display, appears at the top of the content area. I wanted to change the background of the mission box to a different colour. Using Firefox web dev tools, I discovered that the id for this box is aptly named mission. I looked at the style.css file for Garland and finds that there is an entry for #mission. The background-color parametr is set to #fff which is basically white. I wanted to set it to a yellowish colour so I reset background-color to #ffc. I then ftp-ed style.css to /sites/hilmy.cara-cerna.com/themes/garland/ on the server. Then comes two issues:
I have enabled the blog api. I am testing whether I can post a story from my pocket pc phone. I am using a tool called Diarist by Kevin Daly www.kevdaly.co.nz. I need to set the url parameter to http://hilmy.cara-cerna.com/xmlrpc.com and provide my login username and password. Here goes...
In the first attempt, using the Generic Blogger API, everything went into the title and nothing in the body. The title is surrounded by h2 tags. I changed the input format to accept Full Html. Here goes another try...
Nope, same thing.
Next I try the Generic MetaWeblog API. Yes, this is a lot better but the style formatting isn't showing. I check the html source. Yes, the styling is there. Looks like the input format is still set to Filtered HTML. That is a Drupal issue so I will have to look that up. Looks like I can blog from my pocket pc now.
I have installed a website using Drupal cms.
I did it again! I wrote, wrote, wrote and wrote, opened another page, then realiised that I had not clicked the submit button.