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I work in a public library. That means some people I work with can be a little less than self sufficient with technology. While I love my coworkers (most of them), I do find myself making mental-butter churning the idea "How can I make this process librarian proof?"

You've been there before. You grill your keyboard for 18 months on a page, or code, or system only to have one key user not understand how to add content properly. As the saying in the South goes, "Bless their hearts." But don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. It's the truth. And the reality is that I want things to be easy for everyone. When something is easy for everyone, then it's easy on me.

By the middle of next year I will have few additional contributors on our Drupal site. I'm really excited about it. I think it's a great idea, but in the back of my mind I'm trying to figure out a way to get the contributors to point B without making it too scary or difficult. In my search for a solution I ran across a podcast that just might be my Holy Grail. It's a video podcast from Art Labs called "Drupal School: Custom Content Types (CCK+Imagefield+Contemplate)" The author, Elliott Rothman describes how to make a content contribution type with really simple fields that users fill out complete with Images browse/upload and auto-styling. The end product is basically fill in the blank, no html for a styled entry.

The podcast http://www.theartlab.net/drupal-school-custom-content-types-cck-imagefie...

Modules Used

CCK and Contemplate http://drupal.org/project/CCK

Image Field http://drupal.org/project/imagefield