Susquehanna Chapter ADK

During March 2008 the Susquehanna Chapter ADK web site was renovated. The site now runs on a free open source content management program named Drupal. Information about Drupal can be found at http://www.drupal.org/ You can read more about Drupal further down on this page.

What does this mean for the average user?

The change to Drupal should not be too jarring for most visitors to the the site, which is http://www.susqadk.org

If you have linked to individual pages on the earlier web site you will end up at this message. Nearly all the content from the past site is also on this site. If you look to the left you will see a number of links to pages that were moved and sometimes updated from the earlier site. Here's an example.

In the past to find the "Links" page from this site you would go to the following:
http://www.susqadk.org/sitelinks.html/
Trying to go there now produces an Error Message and brings you to the page that you are currently viewing.

Now the same information and a little bit more is located at the following:
http://www.susqadk.org/node/8

Please update your links and bookmarks accordingly.

If you have trouble finding information that was on the previous version of susqadk.org please try entering a key word or words into the Search at the top left of the page.

You do NOT need to log in to view the content of this web site. Maintainers and contributers to the site need to log on to add or edit information. As the club becomes more familiar with the site more members will be invited to contribute to the site.

Information about Drupal can be found at http://www.drupal.org/ A major advantage of Drupal is that it allows people to contribute content to the web site without requiring them to tediously acquire the skills of a webmaster. Perhaps the advantages of Drupal can be compared to the simplification of photography accomplished by George Eastman when he founded Kodak™ as related in following web page. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/kodakHistory/

Mr. Eastman took an interest in photography when it was in its infancy. When he first started taking photographs the equipment necessary to take a picture weighed nearly 100 lbs. That was just the camera, tripod, glass plates and accessories. If you wanted to see the photograph that you took you would need to invest in and equip a darkroom with all the trays and chemicals. Mr. Eastman came up with small affordable portable cameras that could be easily carried and used. The cameras could be sent back to his company for the processing of the photographs. The images could be captured and shared without becoming a slave to a ton of equipment and a chemist in a darkroom. Mr. Eastman and Kodak™ made it possible for people to produces images without having to cross the hurdles that Mathew Brady and other early photographers overcame.

In the same way Drupal makes it possible for anyone who can peck away at a keyboard to share their thoughts with everyone having access to the world wide web of the internet.

How do they put it? "Take only pictures. Leave only footprints." Oh and be thankful to George Eastman and Drupal.