Web Administrator Report

 

I spent some time getting familiar with Drupal in order to help APLA members become involved and active with the APLA website. I met with Donald Moses who gave me an introduction to Drupal and what it is capable of doing.

 

The first major task was to transfer the APLA membership database from Microsoft Access to mysql and to split up the one table into four to take advantage of the relational database structure. The second part of this project has been to transfer the database onto a web server and to make it accessible for updates ,new additions and reports. The PHP scripts have been created and will eventually (hopefully) be included in Drupal.

 

I helped members create a Games section on the APLA website. They have been quite active with it and out of this, I enabled the Drupal module that allows you to optionally specify an alternative URL by which an APLA website node can be accessed. This should help to make the website a little more user-friendly.

 

I have been in contact with a number of other conveners and executive members to make some updates on the website as well as to add users and change passwords. I have also included instructions about adding content to the website.