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At Vejle Idrætshøjskole we invite the community to participate in our some of our lectures. Of course we list the lectures on our lecture webpage. The list is easily created using a custom content type and some views.

I am constantly trying to make it easier to be an editor at Vejle Idrætshøjskole site. Now the time has come to make it easier to create photo galleries. Earlier I uploaded the photo galleries to Picasa Web and created a custom input filter, which could embed the photo galleries as a slideshow into the page and used PWI to embed a photo gallery.

However, when watching the editors doing that, I just knew that I had to change the approach.

I struggled with some minor stuff with Drupal 7, which I do not think I should be struggling with. However, I found some small modules which helped me solve the problems. I think these small modules should be a part of Drupal 8.

I am working on a site for Vejle Idrætshøjskole in Drupal 7. The content editors are non tech, so I am trying to improve the admin backend, so the experience for the editors will be better.

The strength, but also the weakness with Drupal is finding the right tools for the job. There are a lot of great modules out there, but which should one utilize, and where should you build your own custom stuff to achieve what you want.

This article is an attempt to show my thoughts when trying to make the admin area better for non-tech admins.

On Vejle Idrætshøjskoles site I needed to make pdf's of all the lectures, so I could create a small booklet. I created a lecture content type with a title, body and an image. I made a simple pdf of each lecture, but wanted to include a barcode, so people seeing the pdf could just scan it on their smartphones and go directly to the page and registration to participate in the lecture.

On Vejle Idrætshøjskoles website I wanted a small teaser slideshow with a picture, title and a link to the actual content. To accomplish that I used Views 3, Views Slideshow, Nodequeue and a little bit of custom css.

I struggled many hours to improve the technical side of SEO on Vejle Idrætshøjskoles website. Here is what I discovered:

I have just figured out, how I can create my own app server. If you want to follow in my steps, I have created an install profile, you could utilize (and maybe give some feedback to). The install profile for the Drupal App Server is available at github. As a working title I have called the install profile Open Apps.

vih.dk is a site for a Danish Folk Highschool. The school has some teachers that teaches different subjects. A teacher teaches several subjects, and more teachers can teach the same subject. We have created both teachers and subjects as content types, and thus both teachers and subjects are just regular nodes.

fjvu.dk was just redesigned. We needed a custom frontpage and on the subpages we needed control over how many sidebars we used. We chose panels everywhere with the precision theme. I expect that you have knowledge on how to install and enable the needed modules.

First I started my own subtheme of precision which is located at github.