General Drupal_commons user feedback after about a month

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Hi All, allow me to made a short introduction for specify my motivations for this post: 

First take a look on my blog-post: what-drive-me-join-project and one-hour-setting-css-and-clone-different-acquiacommons-theme and my user profile.

After joining and contribute to this Acquia Drupal Commons distribution project about a month ago I am very happy to contribute and help out with my modest Drupal knowledge.

I will try to resume some first-chip-in impression as a basic Drupal user for the sake of a general discussion about usability trying to divide in different discussion sections.

I will try to use very simple words to describe some Howto and Why-so impression testing Drupal-Commons for the first time by a newbie Drupal user so excuse me for some very simple and erroneous expressions and feedback syntax.

 

A.Theme Layout

1. How can I improve the text contrast of Drupal Commons User Interface?

2. Is there an alternative Drupal Commons Theme with more text and layout contrast?

 

B. Region, Content and Blocks Design

1. How do I add/change/modify easily  Region, Content and Blocks  position to focus on my own Social Community custom needs?

 

C. Content organization

1. Can I have a custom content that I can share with Group Admins that are accessible only by User-ID 1 and the Groups Admins?

2. How do I build/manage/organize a section of content that have the purpose of provide general information for Anonymous user, like a front page, an about page, contact page, access denied page, page not found page,  etc. without being always in doubt if this content interfere with the default view, panel, page, context structure of Drupal Commons?

3. Provide general site insight statistics information helps today to advertise more successfully a Social Community project, so how do I use charts and statistic features in a intranet environment if I do not allow internet access to the default Google graphic api  that above mentioned modules need to work?

Note: this is a work in progress, please excuse my no native English and suggest correction and additions if you like. Thanks

P.S. maybe this should be a Wiki, but I'm not confident where to post because I still get confused with so many Groups and do not really at best differentiate some of them here, so support is needed.

Comments

jay

Wolfflow - what do you want here?

Hey -

You list a bunch of questions; but you also say you are providing your impression.  Impressions are usually statements - not questions.

Are you actually trying to provide feedback here, or trying to create a page where you will answer these questions? Once we know that, we can figure out where & how to put your post. :-)

wolfflow

Hi Jay, glad to see you back,

Hi Jay, glad to see you back, yes I want to build a Wiki and provide also link to post that answer best the questions and also allow any of Drupal Commons member to add additional question and answers. I just made the discussion in the feedback group because I really are not confident with English to understand fully where this could suit best. So you may suggest me best and drive me in the right direction. Thanks

jay

Wolf -

Sorry to ask you this, but..

I think your stuff is going to be good enough to put into the Documentation group.  So I moved your page there.  However:

  1. I think you should create a page per topic.
  2. Please re-create them as Wiki pages, so that everybody in the community can contribute to the pages!

I'll fix your english; don't worry.  Just go create the individual pages, and we can work together.

Cheers
-jb

wolfflow

No sorry Jay, I'm mostly

No sorry Jay, I'm mostly thankfully for your feedback and support, so I got it and will implement! 

;-)