Graham Edgecombe

Update on the new website

I've been doing yet more work to my site and have done a few updates including adding a contact form, allowing user registration, updating the way breadcrumbs work and changing the default login redirect to the home page. Thanks to various Drupal modules, I've been able to do this quickly and easily and discovered quite a few new things along the way.

The first thing I wanted to do was to make breadcrumbs work correctly with my menu structure. A module called menu breadcrumb made this extremely easy with just a few configuration options which I changed to suit my needs.

Now, for example, if you visit the Stone Age Online page you'll see 'Home > Projects > Stone Age Online' in the breadcrumbs which is a vast improvement to just seeing 'Home'.

I've also fixed the email settings on my server and made postfix relay to the SMTP server. This means the contact form now works and I'm able to enable user registration without worrying about no activation emails getting through. Of course, I've also added a captcha to the user registration and contact forms.

To change the default login to redirect to the home page was one of the most interesting points. I installed the 'Triggers' module which seems pretty cool. I just had to make a trigger to redirect to the home page upon user login. But the triggers module seems a lot more powerful than that, so I'll probably be investigating it further.

Overall quite a few useful and interesting changes to the site have been made today!