information for admins

(NB you need to log in as admin of the G:up site to successfully follow the links in this section. Furthermore some are accessible only to user admins and some to site admins).

This should be read in conjunction with information to users

revised user roles

Roles allow you to fine tune the security and administration of Drupal. A role defines a group of users that have certain privileges as defined in user permissions.

At this area you can define the role names of the various roles. To delete a role choose "edit".

By default G:up has the following user roles defined, in ascending order from least privileged to most privileged:

Role name	Role description
anonymous user	A user that has not registered on this site
authenticated user	A self-registered user. This is a temporary role to allow limited access between registration and admin approval. User administrators should upgrade authenticated users to known user status once approved.
known user	This is the role for the majority of users on the site. Known users have ability to post most types of content but without access to the more advanced features. Known users have no administrative access rights.
advanced user	This is the role for users with more technical competence or greater involvement with G:up. Administrative access is still not allowed.
site admin	This role grants full privileges for site administration. This role should be limited to those carrying out technical maintenance of the site. Site administrators should not have the ability to access private user information, change individual users' roles, or change the access rights associated with any role.
user admin	This is a limited role allowing the ability to administer user information without being burdened by lots of options pertaining to site administration. For data protection reasons, use of this role should be restricted.

Any user may be granted one or more roles if required. The site manager has virtually unlimited access rights and can do everything that can be managed through a web interface. There is only one single site manager account. Access of this account should be carefully controlled for obvious reasons.

'site admins' - once a new module is enabled or added, a 'user admin' will need to alter the access controls, or you will need to arrange temporary 'user admin' status and work with the Management Group around any necessary data protection issues arising.

user profiles

general information

A new user profile (which also forms the registration for for the site) has been developed. This has been designed to support the project and its activities. In particular it takes into account forthcoming developments - the new 'events module' that will allow online bookings through the site, and the 'consultation module' that will enable active engagement in consultation through avariety of means. It is also designed to support G:up in its monitoring and evaluation of engagement in the project. The extension of teh consultation module being carried out, will make the user profiles very powerful as it will be possible to quickly and easily email people by combination of elements of their user profile - e.g people from organisations working with under fives in Warwickshire.

NCVCCO and WMVYSF are shown in a 'networks' category for people interested in being kept in touch with their news.

On the down side, this does mean a lot of information is being asked for,and some users may question this.

data and data protection

Further consideration will need to be given as to what information young people are asked to submit when they register (including how we validate that they are actually young people) and how a joint database across project websites might be managed. At the very least it is planned that a single user login will give access to G:up and the consultation and support (virtual G:up) sites.Gerbrand at Engage Tactical Media is working on the joint database.

Clear thought must be given in due course to data protection and the use of information. Once a policy is in force then the necessary adjustments should be made to each field in the user profile (in particular the explanation to users about each field, and whether or not each field is compulsory for completion). The user profile fields can be edited here.

futher development

The different elements of the profile currently appear in alphabetical order (by default). Once it has been agreed finally what should be retained in the profile and how it should appear to the user, it would be recommended to assign a number to each profile category, so thet they appeared in the desired order on the registration form.

All current users need to be encouraged to update their own user profiles.

searching

Currently it is possbile to search the following categories (if the user has the right permissions - again it needs consideration which users should be able to see which information about other users):

• people from organisations working with under 5s
• people from organisations working with 5-12 year olds
• people from organisations working with 13-19 year olds
• people from organisations working with 20-25 year olds
• people from BME organisations
• people from disability organisations people
• from faith-based organisations
• people from rural organisations
• people from community-based organisations people from social enterprises
• people from organisations working across the West Midlands region or beyond
• people from organisations working in Stoke-on-Trent
• people from organisations working inStaffordshire
• people from organisations working in Telford and Wrekin
• people from organisations working in Shropshire
• people from organisations working in Wolverhampton
• people from organisations working in Walsall
• people from organisations working in Sandwell
• people from organisations working in Dudley
• people from organisations working in Birmingham
• people from organisations working in Solihull
• people from organisations working in Coventry
• people from organisations working in Warwickshire
• people from organisations working in Worcestershire
• people from organisations working in Herefordshire

The final example is shown as a link - all the above examples can be linked to by a similar pattern in the URL. This could potentially be a powerful tool for access to information (excluding personal info) about users and their organisations. Of course it is only as good as the data in the database!

Initially it may be worth updating this info rather than relying on users to do so, NB Gerbrand should be contacted before attempts to alter profile information on individual users (other than on the user settings page) as a current bug that appeered with Drupal 4.7 means this results in errrors thet could potentially crash the system.

G:up language

A new gup language has been created. This means that any text written on the main Drupal-defined bits of the site can now be changed into a more friendly kind of English (where appropriate).

Many adaptatations have been made to introduce greater clarity or to make the instructions site specific or sector specific. As new modules are added the language 'strings' will continue to grow and new translations can be added at any point.

The string describing use of email addresses needs to be updated, but the nature of the 'translation' into G:up speak is dependant on the data protection policy adopted by the project. THIS NEEDS URGENT ATTENTION. To edit this node the site manager or a site admin needs to login and go to this page.

content types

The use of different content types has been rationalised, to make the site simpler to use and contribute to for the average user, and to help ensure information added ends up where it should and with the right information attached to it for easy site searching.

blogs ahve been disabled as they are not in use and produce an unwanted and confusing link in the user menu. They can of course be re-enabled at any time it is felt appropriate.

the Drupal content type known as stories have become 'news items' on the G:up site. Where possible this change has been implemented throughout (it is integrated into the G:up language). However, some modules contain language strings that are not editable so the word 'stories' may appear to admministrators on occasion.

categories

A new system of categorisation has been applied. Users will automatically be asked to apply category terms from three drop vocabulary menus (location, sector, info type)when they submit events or news items.

The rationale for not applying this to other content types is that most of the other content will be better searched for through key word search or through the site structure. It might be hard to categorise posts about minutes of a meeting or an update on the funding the project has got or info on its ethos etc, and it might add to confusions. Of course this can be applied across the content types if desired.

Categories can be applied retrospectively to content (by editing the appropriate 'nodes' (events, news items). It may be something worth considering, to assist searching of past information. The problem there might be with this is that info that would now bestbe categorised as a news item may previously have been submitted as a page or book page (and couldn't therefore be categorised. Also there may be limited value in categorising past events...

blocks

The theme does allow blocks to be placed in any of the usual places on the site, for reasons of style and ease of use we have adopted a convention of only enabling blocks in the left sidebar. We recommend this is followed.

There are currently no links in blocks to discussion forums. This is because there is currently no activity there. This may be something to promote in future, when it may be desirable to enable the latest forum postings block for example on the engage page.

tinyMCE and tinyMCE profiles

two tinyMCE profiles have been generated. for most users it is enabled as default for easy editing and formatting of text. The default for site admins is to have it disabled, as it can interfer with settings iin more complex admin functions where html is used. individual users can over-ride these through adjusting settings in their own user account.

front page module

The front page is generated by the php code accessible through the front page settings. This depends on the front page module being enabled!

G:up themes

We have created a theme G:up_blue for use on the main G:up website. We recommend that users are not given a choice over the theme they use to view the site, without good reason. The theme is custom built to the site and its structure, and some other themes may not support structural features that the site relies upon for navigation, including the front page. Also key elements like our logo and title are embedded in the theme.

We have created two derivate themes. G:up_green is for use on the the virtual G:up (support)site, and G:up_red has been developed for the consultation site. As the consultation site if for both organisatins and young people we felt it would be appropriate to adopt the colours of the young people's theme (developed by Engage tactical media) and the style of the G:up theme.
We do not even recommend use of these derivative thems for the main site as other features will not fit so well (for example the navigation logos on the front page).
Now we have an established template, further derivatives (with appropriate new three colour, colour schemes)could be made with relative ease by somebody with Drupal theme development experience or knowledge of css.

Tests with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Camino all showed our theme to work well. To accommodate Internet Explorer (which is now quite outdated)we have had to make a number of choices we would have preferred not to. The title bar text "growing up in the west midlands" has been generated as part of the logo image, which means changes need to be made to the page template filr to reinstate the title text for use of the template on other sites.

The management may like to decide if it makes a theme available for use by partner sites, derived from the G:up tehme which we feel offers many user-friendly features.

upgrade to Drupal 4.7

The theme (and derivatives) have been designed to work with Drupal 4.7 and were developed using the release candidates 2,3 and 4.The final release of this software came out on the day of submission of this work, so there may be a number of new bugs arising that will need addressing in the future.

There are a number of differences that admins may notice with 4.7 and it is well worth becoming familiar with these. More information can be found here.

further information

Additional support and information can be found through this site and its discussion forums, also through G:up training events - email the G:up project administrator for further information about dates and locations of training.

More information and support for administering Drupal sites in general can be found here .

Information for users

site navigation

site layout

The site has been structured to reflect the different core elements of the project.

G:up will take you to information about Growing Up in the West Midlands, the strategic forum meetings, current project activities and archives of work carried out by the management and delivery groups.

young G:up has been prepared to provide links through to the work being carried out by young people through the project - their local websites and their regional collaboration. At the time of writing this work is still in its early development.

virtual G:up provides a link to this 'support' community and website. engage is where you want to be to see the latest postings on the site, to find out about news and events and to get involved in networks.

influence will take you throught to the project's consultation site for young people and the sector (also under development at the time of writing).

develop will lead you to the part of the site that is about sharing and developing practice - this is due to be completed in May 2006.

Of course, it's a dynamic resource and teh sections of the site and their use will grow dynamically as you get involved and make your own mark.

Enjoy it!

navigation bar

The use of a new navigation bar showing the site's 'primary links' supports clear navigation throughout the sites and sub sites of the project. As the links are scrolled over further information appears about the content of that area of the site.

navigation menus

Depending on your position in the site, appropriate additional navigation menus then appear in the relevant site section down the left hand collumn.

breadcrumb navigation

The 'breadcrumb' trail that let's you follow your way back home through the site's navigation is now beneath the main navigation bar at the top of the page, with a 'you are here' message.

site search

A new site search block aids easy navigation by keyword, category, recent post, event, date of post, as well as a user search and a link through to the site's images.

categorisation system

The category search benefits from a new system for categorising news and events. Each item is 'tagged' with information about the ares within the region to which it is applicable, the sector(s) to which it relates (children, youth, play), and the type of information.

being an active user

user roles

all users that are known to the project and that have registered on the site are able to play an active role in developing its content.

There are new user roles (see the info for admins section for more information) that give people different privileges and access rights. If you feel you do not have the appropriate access for the role you would like to play then please contact us info@www.growingupinthewestmidlands.info.

login

A new distinct login/logout has been developed and positioned alongside the main links in the top navigation bar.

tinyMCE rich text editing

Most users (apart from site admins) have the tinyMCE settings enabled as a default - this provides a convenient text editing toolbar when you come to add content to teh site. You can override this setting by visiting 'my account' and clicking on tinyMCE rich text settings.

content types and adding content

There have been some changes to content types.

News Item is now the content type to select if you wish to share information that is relevant to the children's youth or play sectors in all or part of the region.

Events should be used for any events you would like to promote.

Book pages should be used for adding content into the main G:up site and its hierarchical structure,based on Drupal books.

comments can be added to any content as previously.

email a page

There is now a facility to email a friend a page from the site that you think may be of interest.

general information

For more information about being an active user of the G:up or any other Drupal site then please visit the Drupal User's handbook.

Our approach

First and foremost the site has been developed to be useful and accessible to its core users (people working in voluntary and community organisations in the children's youth and play sectors in the West Midlands).

Both structure and design have developed to make the site as user-friendly and accessible as possible. This is based upon what people have said they want (something clean, clear simple and easy to navigate) and on observations that have been made of people using/ stuggling to use the site.

The features developed are designed to be accessible through different browsers, on different connection speeds, on different screen sizes and in different font sizes.

Background to the design:

• The website that will be the main application for the logo is primarily for an adult audience. However their interest is in services for young people (0-25) so the logo should reflect this.
• The logo must reflect the spirit of Growing up in the West Midlands, which perceives itself and wants to project itself as energetic, dynamic, inclusive, collaborative and innovative.
• Within the network, members feel trusted and supported, that they are part of a professional organisation and producing quality work. Growing up in the West Midlands is also very conscious of facilitating young voices to be heard AND to make a difference. They are also a lobbying force.

Additional considerations:

• No strong photographic imagery or existing imagery or budget for fresh photography
• Very long title – that different people are shortening in different ways eg ‘G-up’
• Legible design required for mostly a screen application and without taking up a lot of the web page.
• Visual style of logo should help theme the website – eg colour palette of logo to be rolled out across sub sites, icons derived from the visual style of the logo to be used to support navigation.

The end product:
The final logo, as featured on this website, has an energetic, hands on feel. The immediacy of the hand drawn, chalky letters reflect the ‘lets get on with it’ nature of the project. The G creates an upward pointing arrow and the slash lends a positive assuredness. The three bubble heads represent the three stages that ‘Growing up in the West Midlands’ concentrates on, with each face developing a new feature (the second a smile and the third a nose). They are light hearted but clear. Children or adults might have drawn these, perhaps for fun or perhaps to illustrate a point to others at a meeting! The G:up abbreviation is clearly explained in the strap line (educating the first time viewer how to refer to the project). The type is classic, practical and professional, with the emphasis on the ‘growing up’.

This approach to the logo allowed the project team to theme the website with chalky, hand drawn icons and headings drawn in the same hand drawn typeface. Functional and professional looking yet accessible and friendly.

Search engines (source wikipedia)

A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system, such as on the World Wide Web, inside a corporate or proprietary network, or in a personal computer. The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of items that match those criteria. This list is often sorted with respect to some measure of relevance of the results. Search engines use regularly updated indexes to operate quickly and efficiently.

Without further qualification, search engine usually refers to a Web search engine, which searches for information on the public Web. Other kinds of search engine are enterprise search engines, which search on intranets, personal search engines, and mobile search engines. Different selection and relevance criteria may apply in different environments, or for different uses.

Some search engines also mine data available in newsgroups, databases, or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorthmic and human input.

 

Most common search engines

www.google.co.uk

www.ask.co.uk

 

No One Knows

Beware of the Answers

The web has very little review of its content, any one with browser access can add content and create pages to highlight their views and opinons. (for example you can easily add content to this web site and comment on this page by using the comment button at the bottom)

This means that you need to consider the quality of the information you are reading. Consider, why the author has published the information, is the site reputable, is the content or author biased.

If we consider the publication of the news. I would suggest that the Guardian web site may have a different view of an event to the Daily Mail.

 

What is the internet?

The internet is a term which refers to the manner in which computers are linked across the world.

When you plug your modem into your computer and connect your are joining a network of millions of computers.  To enable you to join and access this network you forstly connect to your ISP (internet Service Provider).

The ISP provides you with an easy way of connecting and provides you with a degree of security. i.e. you need to enter your name and password to log on. 

Having logged on to the internet your browser will then display your home page (a home page is the page you have chosen  to be the first page you see when you log on)

Once connected you can visit millions of pages on the world wide web.  It is called a web because in same way that a spiders web has multiple ways to move from one point to another (e.g. each strand of the web meets many intersections, any intersection allows the path to be changed to reach the destination, so if a strand is broken the link can be maintained.

Every computer has its own address on the web (yours is managed by your ISP) and given the address people can access any computer.

People who own web sites have purchased a URL (unique reference locator) or Domain Name.  The use of Domain names e.g. www.growingupinthewestmidlands.info has been created to make web addresses more memorable.  behind the scenes a web address is a set of numbers e.g. 82.94.217.139

 

 

 

 

General Overview of the Website

Your website is powered by a content management system (CMS), which essentially means that much of the information on the website can be easily changed by you or your group's members. Members may login to the site with their user name and password and create and edit content, adding pictures, discussions, newsletter articles, and many other forms of information etc.

Classic (static) websites required experts not only to set them up but to enter their content using complex-looking hypertext mark-up language (HTML) statements, and such sites were therefore much harder to maintain by members of an organisation or group – often, these websites would quickly become out of date and fail to reflect accurately the work of the group as that work evolved.

The particular content management system documented in this manual is called Drupal and is one of the most flexible and extensible systems among many other similar systems in a new generation of high quality CMSs developed and made freely available by the open source community. Drupal has been designed specifically for supporting rich interaction of on-line community groups.

General Layout of your Website

In general, your website will have a layout similar to the following.

Note that, depending on the specific theme (the look) of your site, the graphics and the layout may look a little different to this – your site might not have blocks on both sides of the page, or you might not have blocks at all, depending on how you decide to configure your site.

Getting Started: Creating some Users

Fundamental to your CMS website is the idea of allowing multiple users to manage content and functionality of the site – lightening the load of responsibility of a single person. There are two ways to create a new user on the website:

1. An anonymous user may self-register a new account – albeit one that must later be authorised by an existing administrator of the site.

2. An administrator user may create a new user and then later disclose to the new user their access details (i.e. their username and password).

Firstly, this document will describe how to self-register a user, then user administration will be described.

Editing your first page

All good websites should have a 'home' page, the first page that is seen by a person when they go to your website. Currently, your site has only one page – the home page – and it doesn't yet say anything about what you do. As an introduction to editing content of your site, we'll begin by editing the home page.

In order to change the page's content, we need to log in as a registered user who has editing privileges, so let's log in as the editor edward that, conveniently, we created earlier.

Notice how, when we are logged in a as a user with an editor role, the home page appears with 'view' and 'edit' tabs. This means that, if we click the edit tab, we can edit the contents of the page.

Now, you are presented with a form that allows you to edit many aspects of the page. Let's concentrate on the 'body' field, which allows you to edit the contents of the page.

This page can be edited in a similar fashion to a word processing document, though the look and feel of web-pages is often restricted somewhat over that of a word processing document. Nevertheless, text can be entered here, and manipulated with various styles (e.g. headings, bold, italics, bullet points, etc.) - the best way to find out what the various style buttons do is by hovering your mouse pointer over them for a few seconds until an explanation of a particular button is displayed. Also, images can easily be added to your web-page.

This is your website, so write anything now on this page, and try some of the buttons to see what they do.

Now, as in the previous steps, scroll to the bottom of the page and 'submit' your changes by clicking the submit button.

Managing and Using blocks

Blocks are containers for additional information that you can add to areas of your webpages. The menu, usually featured on the left-hand side of your site's pages is actually a block. Blocks can make your site more interesting by showing summaries of recent activity on your site (e.g. forum or content changes, etc.) and can allow a user to easily navigate to parts of your site from any page that they are viewing. When logged in as an administrator, you can easily add and remove a wide range of blocks to areas of your site – usually blocks are placed on either the left- or right-side of your pages.

To configure your website's blocks, log in as the administrator and then select the 'blocks' icon from the 'administration' area of the control panel.

The page you see now displays a list of all of the available blocks.

The first column in the list, 'Block', gives the name of the block; the second column, 'Enabled', tells you whether or not the block is displayed; the third column, 'Weight', shows how heavy the block is and thus whether the block should float to the top of the page (above other blocks) or whether it should sink down to the bottom of the page; and the fourth column, 'Placement', describes where on the page the block should be displayed.

The best way to find out what a particular block does – if its name does not suggest this to you – is to simply click the 'enabled' box and submit the changes. The block should then appear on your page. It is recommended that you try enabling at least the following blocks to see what they do:

• Newsletter

• Who's online

• Active forum topics

• Chatbox discussions

WARNING: Unless you are very confident with advanced management of the site, it is very important at this stage that you do not disable blocks 'User login' and 'Site menu', since these are required for user log-in and site navigation.

Set your website's general information

To let visitor's know who you are, it is important to enter some information about your website and organisation. To do this, login to your site as user webadmin and click on the 'settings' icon of the 'administration' section of the control panel.

Now, enter your site's specific information (name, general email address, a slogan, perhaps, and a mission statement), then scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'save configuration'.

Summary

Well done, you have now learnt the essentials of managing and using your website. You have achieved the following:

• Understanding the general functionality and layout of your site

• Creating and managing users of your site

• Creating and editing content of your site

• Manipulating blocks to make your website more interesting to a visitor

• Setting general settings of your site

With these skills it is possible for you to build up your site into a rich source of information for all the world to see. Since all extended functionality of this highly flexible content management system (Drupal) is based on similar principles to those covered in this document, you can potentially explore the options yourself to discover how to use such features as online discussion forums, online live chat rooms, blogging (online diaries for users), email newsletters, etc.

Stories

In the introductory documentation you looked at how to create and edit pages of content for your website. In an almost identical way to creating a new page, you can create a news story for your site: on the 'create content' pane of the control panel, click 'story'.

The subtle difference between a story and a page is really only how you expect it to be accessed and interpreted by a visitor of your site: when you create a story – as opposed to a page – the story will by default be promoted to the special news page of your site, with the most recent news article appearing at the top of that page; whereas a page will usually be linked to from a menu on your site and will not be related to a specific date or time (e.g. contact information, services that are offered, members of staff or volunteers, etc.).

To see how news stories can be presented on your site, create two or more different stories and then click on the 'News' item in the main menu.

Currently your site has a 'home' page set as the default website front page (the first page that a visitor will see) and the news page is accessed using the 'News' menu item, but if you decide you would like the site to be a very news-oriented site, then you may want to set the front page of your site to be the main news page (a page called 'node'). The process of changing the main page of your site is described in the advanced website management document.

Creating and Using On-line Discussion Forums

Follow through the topics below:

• Creating On-line Discussion Forums
• Creating Forums
• Forum Containers
• Using On-line Discussion Forums
• Posting a topic
• Posting a reply

 

Managing and Using On-line Newsletters

A newsletter may be considered to be special website page that, after you have finished editing it (e.g adding pictures and text), it can be emailed to a list of subscribers to that particular newsletter – usually newsletter subscribers are members of your website, but this is not necessarily so. By default your website will have at least one newsletter that people can subscribe to, but, if appropriate, you can create as many different newsletters as you like. An easy way to have members subscribe to a newsletter is to add that particular newsletter's block to your website, then they may simply click on the 'subscribe button'.

This screen gives you some options for managing your newsletters. The tabs along the top, reading 'Sent items', 'drafts', 'newsletters', 'subscriptions', respectively allow you to view sent newsletter articles, view in-progress newsletter articles that have not yet been sent, manage your newsletters (e.g. create new newsletters or edit existing ones), and manage subscriptions to your newsletters. Let's take a look at the 'subscriptions' administration page by clicking on the 'subscriptions' tab.

The subscriptions page allows you to manage subscriptions to your news letters. Although you will probably prefer to let members of your site control their own subscription to newsletters (i.e. rather than you having to manually subscribe tens or hundreds of people), you may want to subscribe some people who are not members of your site. To do this, you can click on the 'import subscriptions' option on the subscriptions page, whereupon you will be able to manually add a list of email address.

Events

To create an event, just as you would create any other type of content, click on the 'create content' pane of the control panel, then click 'event'. Now, set the start and end times of your event and enter a title and the body of the event, then click 'submit'.

If you have the events block displayed on you site, notice how the calendar now shows the date of your event highlighted.

Click on the name of the month to begin browsing the calendar and you will see your event.

 

Browsing an online calendar in this way is a very nice way for members or general visitors of your site to find out what your group or organisation is up to.

Adding Videos Clips to a Site

One way to easily add a video clip into your web site is to attach the video file to a page.

To attach a video clip to a page

When in edit mode you have a number of options available to you, the 'File Attachment' option allows you to attach a file.
 
1.  Ensure that the File Attachment option is expanded
2.  Click on 'Browse' and find the video file on your machine
3.  Click 'Attach'
4.  A bar will show the progress as the file loads onto the server
5.  Once the file has loaded you will see that it is listed, note that underneath the listing is the full URL of where the file is stored
6.  Submit the page
 
When you click on the attachment the file will launch using the video player on your computer.

To attach a video clip to an image

Having loaded the video clip you can now link it to an image.

The steps to attach a file to an image are:

1. Place the image you wish to use into the page, and on the link option choose Go to URL from the drop down list. At the side you will see the box for the URL will appear
2. Copy the URL location from the file upload area and paste it into this box
3. Click 'Insert'
4. Don’t forget to submit your page

Troubleshooting

Problems that may occur if the browser does not understand the format of the video; it may just download and not playback. You should ensure the video is stored in a popular format (eg. Windows Movie Video, QuickTime or MPEG-2). Most computers have video players for these already installed.

If necessary convert the video file from your video camera into a more common format, and consider compressing the video to reduce traffic and improve playback.

Keeping a Drupal book contents sticky in the left column

By default, a navigation menu for a Book (hierarchical structure of pages) will appear in the left column only when you have opened one of the pages of the book.

How to get the Book navigation menu sticky in the left menu?

The Staffordshire CVYS site has all their static content organised in a book, and wanted this feature.

The trick was done by creating a new block (administer -> blocks), select 'PHP code' as input format. And copy the code that you find on Book Module: How to make a book navigation block appear on all pages.

Don't forget to change the value of $book_top_page on the 2nd line to the node number of the index of your book.

(Mind you, you can only do this when you are logged in as an administrator.)

RSS links for top ten games

Found some good RSS Links, for example to post the top 10 online games to your web site

Choose Administer, Aggregator,

and choose 'Add Feed'

Give it a Title 'Top Games' or something

and in the URL copy and past the following http://www.play2day.co.uk/rss-10.xml