Posts Tagged ‘drupal’

Switched to Wordpress

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008

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After spending hours trying to configure and customize the drupal interface we have decided to go back to wordpress.  The possibilities are limitless and platform is beatifully built for optimum customization.

A major issue that drupal presented was the inabilitywordpress-logo to to have a homepage that is totally different from the rest of the the drupal platform outside of a “node”.   The drupal platform encourages the author to only write text or code in a “node”, which is the drupal platform for publishing.

With Polycareers, we wanted to have different sets of information shown in different locations of the site, which made things quite a bit more complicated.  Wordpress is an amazing platform that is designed for the simple everyday blogger and the hardcore programmer.

Solution for PolyCareers’ rating system

Friday, November 21st, 2008

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A core feature of PolyCareers is to allow students to rate their experiences at an internship or job. In order to receive a holistic survey of a person’s experience, we want to allow multiple rating criterias such as Recruiting Process, Work Quality, People, Workplace Environment, etc.

Finding a single criteria rating system was easy (using Fivestar, a rating module) but figure out how to do multi-criteria rating required a lot of time in the Drupal forums. Finally I was able find a solution: Content Construction Kit, a module for Drupal that allows you to add custom fields to node. In our case, the custom fields would be Fivestar ratings and the node would be a company review.