Getting Drupal’s Access Control Module to Work Properly

After setting up some content types — some public, some internal. I installed the Access Control module, set up internal content not to be visible to anonymous users — but without any effect.

After some research, but without success, I realized the *Advanced* section at the bottom of the Access Control tab for each content type. And now the magic trick: Increase the weight and you are done. So I guess the build in access management was fighting the Access Control module, so it is up to you to make your favorite module stronger by giving it more weight. — I doubt this is intuitive. Additionally, it is for sure difficult to simply find the tiny little select box down there in a section, which is by default folded.

education portal for the city of Augsburg

A new portal has been launched for the city of Augsburg. It is meant to be a central platform about all kind of information and events concerning education in and around Augsburg (Germany). Different layouts have been created in the course of a seminar, the one to be realized, has been chosen by a person in charge of the municipality. Two students of the “winning” team and myself, we formed a team, got a work contract by the municipality and implemented the website on the basis of the Typo3 CMS within one year, besides our studies.

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Content and navigation as zoomable UI and masked floating layer

See the Zoomable UI/floating layer navigational approach of my old (unmaintained!) home page (in german).

This version of my homepage features a new navigational concept combining the idea of zoomable interfaces and a masked floating layer. I created this application as experiment while searching for concepts and idea about how to integrate contents and navigational layer.

After informal feed back of user i asked to give it a trail, I had to find, in the end, this RIA will stay more an experiment than a easy to use information portal.

The text and media contained is in german and has not been update ever since, additionally the guest book is deactivated. Therefore give it a trail but do not take the content serious .