Sunday, September 26, 2010

Unit 5 The benefits of TinyMCE

Here is an example of the way cool things TinyMCE can do. I copied some html code automatically generated by TinyMCE into my blog just to give the reader a flavor for the amazing functionality made possible by numerous third party modules installed and configured into Drupal. The professional looking text descriptive of Congress Park from a Wikipedia article that follows below is an example of how TinyMCE can help make blogs look better.

Congress Park is a 17-acre (6.9 ha) site in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. It was the site of the former Congress Spring Bottling Plant and the former Congress Hall, a large resort hotel, which together brought Saratoga Springs international fame as a health spa and gambling site. At the peak of its popularity it was a place where the wealthy, major gamblers and stars of the entertainment world mingled. The park's artwork includes a statue by Daniel Chester French and a landscape design by Frederick Law Olmsted, among others.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987[2][3] after having originally been submitted and listed as the Casino-Congress Park-Circular Street Historic District in 1972. The later listing excluded some of the property outside the park and halved the overall size of the district.

Congress Park is currently operated by the City of Saratoga Springs as a park, bounded by Broadway, Spring Street, and Circular Street in Saratoga Springs.



Select and install a Drupal module of your choice.

I decided to install the SiteMap module site_map-6.x-2.1.tar.gz to my Drupal, since the site map feature is something I have always found useful on other web sites as a way to discover the contents of a web site. The install and configuration went well, and I configured it so even non-authenticated users/visitors to my collection web site will be able to use the site map feature. I inserted it into the navigation menu using Administer>Site building>Menus>Navigation

I believe the SiteMap module will make my collection easier to navigate but also in a real world context more discoverable by researchers as Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found by search engine bots.

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