6 Tips: In the Know

So how do I stay 'in the know' and increase my Drupaliness?

Jan 25, 2008
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Submitted By: Fredric Mitchell
Filed Under:

• Drupal
• General Advice

I'll go ahead and warn the readers that this article won't have any fancy code snippets or super dark magic to turn your site into ten billion dollars of reoccurring ad revenue. What it WILL do is give you some great pointers in ramping up your Drupal knowledge as you begin to take over the world...one Drupal site at a time.

Muahahahahahaha....but I digress.

1.) Stay on the channels

While you probably need some clout to get anything answered or explained in #drupal, #drupal-support is where the n00bies flock...and flock often. Although I wouldn't consid...

Portland January Meetup Tonight

Cookies and Lullabots at Hotel deLuxe

Jan 09, 2008
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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• Drupal
• News

Just a little reminder for the Drupalers in the Portland/Vancouver area that the Lullabot folks will be hosting a meet-up this fine evening (Wednesday, January 9) at the Hotel deLuxe.  If bathing in a sea of Drupal experts while eating free cookies isn't enough, Jeremy and I will be there, too.

The Power of template.php

A few techniques to help your designers.

Jan 02, 2008
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Submitted By: Fredric Mitchell
Filed Under:

• Drupal
• PHP

Theming a fresh Drupal site always gives the designers true glory. Well, its time that I help out my fellow programmers. After all, without us, its just a pretty drupal core.

First things first. I'm assuming that you and the designer are working on a clean theme, like zen. I'm also assuming the use of Drupal 5. Most of the code is available via drupal.org.

So what kinds of things can you do?

Custom id and class tags

The most important thing to know is that Drupal allows the modification of theme functions within this file. This means any...

Drupal Admin Theme

Designed as an admin theme yet can be used as a regular theme

Dec 03, 2007
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Submitted By: Jeremy Caldwell
Filed Under:

• (X)HTML
• CSS
• Drupal

I started working on an admin theme for Drupal over two months ago in my spare time and just got around to packaging it up offering it up for download. I've used it on a a few client's sites and they seem to like it so hopefully someone else can get some use out of it.

As you may or may not know Drupal has the ability to switch from your site's theme to an admin theme when the user is logged in as an admin and in the "/admin" URL. Typically I used the Garland theme for this purpose as it looks different than any theme I've made so it's easy to tell if you the user are in th...

Simplemenu Module Customizations

Making a great Drupal admin menu better

Nov 01, 2007
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Submitted By: Jeremy Caldwell
Filed Under:

• (X)HTML
• CSS
• Drupal
• JavaScript

I'm a big fan of the Simplemenu module for Drupal as it's quite a time-saver when developing a site. It's really handy to have the entire admin menu right at the top of each page.

Clients also love it for it's ease of use and they don't have to navigate to "/admin" everytime they log in and want to make a change to the site. Now they can just hover over the option the want on the top navigation bar accross their browser and drill down to the specific page they want. Very handy and much quicker than manually drilling down to each page. It's been a real time-saver for me so f...