[Cross posted from support.bryght.com]
Our latest screencast: Tabs with arguments and taxonomies

[Cross posted from support.bryght.com]

Check out our latest screencast: creating tabs with CCK and Views.

Are you an expat seeking Tokyo Yokahama information? Then Tokyo Yokohama Information Source is for you.

When I lived in England and Germany back in the mid 1990s, I would have loved to have run a one stop shop information source community site for expats like this site. I had the desire to do this but not the tools because the web was in its infancy.

Tokyo Yokohama Information Source (a Bryght Light Drupal 5 site) illustrates the progress we have made with our web tools. Tokyo Yokohama Information Source is a "one stop" shop source of Tokyo Yokohama Information that was quickly designed and implemented using Drupal and the Bryght Basic Install profile by one person with one person creating content. This would have taken several people and much more time back in the 90s.

This site shows you how far and how quickly you can take the default Garland theme and make it your own. Bryght reseller Kelina Kwan has added a beautiful logo and changed the colors and she's picking up on cool Drupal features like Views (e.g. see the event listing) and figuring out how to use CCK and Views in a future iteration of the site. Kelina's a self described Drupal novice but her previous HTML, CSS, flash, and audio experience have accelerated her learning.

Act locally, think globally. That's one of the premises behind Bryght VPS site, ChangeEverything.ca. Community members (anybody in the Vancouver and Victoria, BC area) on ChangeEverything.ca submit "changes" (things they would like to change in their lives and communities -- implemented as a custom content type using Drupal's content construction kit) no matter how large or how small and the community works together to help accomplish those goals.

ChangeEverything.ca is illustrative of an online community truism: after you have a solid and reliable technology infrastructure like Drupal to build an online community upon, the social i.e. the people part of the community matters more than the technology part.

And the people part is hard to do even if you have done this before. Accordingly, the Vancity team (the organization behind ChangeEverything.ca), led by William Azaroff, did some very smart things. First, they hired Social Signal who have oodles of online community experience to coordinate the site and community design. Second, Vancity hired Kate Dugas who administers and nurtures the ChangeEverything.ca Community with a deft hand.

[Cross posted from my screencast story on support.bryght.com]

Roland's done four screencasts for Bryght Light sites, Bryght Virtual Private Servers and anybody using the Bryght Basic Profile for Drupal 5 (instructions for downloading and installing the Bryght Basic Profile):

• Changing a colour in the Drupal 5 Garland Theme
• Uploading a logo to the Drupal 5 Garland Theme
• Creating a custom content type using CCK for Frequently Asked Questions
• Creating a View for Frequently Asked Questions custom content type

And more to come!

RichardP has asked for video uploading and embedding screencasts (thanks!)! What would you like to see? And in fact what would you like to see in Bryght documentation in general? It doesn't have to be screencasts, it could be good 'ole text documentation with screenshots or any other form of documentation.

Other then the fact that we'd like to focus on Drupal 5 and we'd like to be complementary to the excellent documentation on Drupal.org, there are no constraints! Contact us and let us know or email roland AT bryght.com.