It’s easy to take Drupal’s built-in user management features for granted… out of the box, you can configure your site to allow user registrations, reset forgotten passwords, and handle user logins. We had a use case where we wanted to combine the login and registration forms into a single landing page for anonymous users, to encourage users without an account to sign up with a single click rather than hiding the registration form behind another link.

Texas Lutheran University has started the fall semester with a new Drupal based online application system designed and developed by Proof. Their applicants are able to create accounts and complete the multi page application in one or more sessions, saving progress so that they can return at any time. The application includes detailed biographical and geographical information, education history, interests and more.

fmSpark has been added as one of 11 "Featured Solutons" on the FileMaker website. We are excited that fmSpark is getting this exposure to people who are searching for FileMaker solutions "at the source." There are a number of very cool solutions featured along with fmSpark and it is nice to be in such good company.

Drupal 5.x does not support HTML image inputs (<image type="input" src="..."/>) out of the box. A common solution to this limitation is to provide your own theming function to handle any buttons you want to turn into images, as described at http://drupal.org/node/144758.

It has been an exciting first month for fmSpark. Since we officially released fmSpark on July 1 we have had a fantastic response. Both our site and SeedCode's site have seen increased visits thanks to fmSpark. The feedback from users and our developer peers has been extremely positive and humbling.