Images for design not content

Since I am designing my site, I need to be able to work with files directly with CSS, not as Drupal pieces of content. So, I dug around a bit and the best thing to do is to put your images into someplace that will be easy to manage under the doc root of your site. Which in my case is the HTML directory. So i continued into that area, going into sites and created an images folder there. I need to keep the images in the sites folder because my upgrade proc for core removes everything but sites. so once i place the file there I can reference it in the css by its path. so for example, http://docresource.org/sites/images/filename.ext

Adsense update

Well, I am making some progress on the adsense integration. I have the account setup and have confirmed that the bank info is correct but it has been over a week and it is still at the verification on the adsense interface. Not sure what that might mean except that they may not want my site to host ads. anyway, this is what you see when you are in the waiting status.

Views Upgrade and subsequent patch

Well, to my chagrin (AGAIN) I have had to patch the Views module after a routine upgrade. This time was better than the last but it still wasn’t fun.

You have to patch the views.aggregator.inc file. you can read earlier posts about this to get some of the additional details.

this is before:

// ———————————————————————-
// Aggregator category feed table

$data[‘aggregator_category_feed’][‘table’][‘join’] = array(
‘aggregator_item’ => array(
‘left_field’ => ‘fid’,
‘field’ => ‘fid’,
),
);

// ———————————————————————-
// Aggregator category table

$data[‘aggregator_category’][‘table’][‘group’] = t(‘Aggregator category’);

$data[‘aggregator_category’][‘table’][‘join’] = array(
‘aggregator_item’ => array(
// ‘left_table’ => ‘aggregator_category_feed’,
‘left_table’ => ‘aggregator_category_item’,
‘left_field’ => ‘cid’,
‘field’ => ‘cid’,
),
);

And this is after:

// ———————————————————————-
// Aggregator category feed table

$data[‘aggregator_category_item’][‘table’][‘join’] = array(
‘aggregator_item’ => array(
‘left_field’ => ‘iid’,
‘field’ => ‘iid’,
),
);
//
//
//

//
// ———————————————————————-
// Aggregator category table

$data[‘aggregator_category’][‘table’][‘group’] = t(‘Aggregator category’);

$data[‘aggregator_category’][‘table’][‘join’] = array(
‘aggregator_item’ => array(
// ‘left_table’ => ‘aggregator_category_feed’,
‘left_table’ => ‘aggregator_category_item’,
‘left_field’ => ‘cid’,
‘field’ => ‘cid’,