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The Path to a Mobile Drupal: Techniques, Tools and Failure
by: John Albin Wilkins
Recently, I received an email invite for a webinar on mobile device development. I tried to sign up via my iphone, but was told that my mobile device wasn’t supported. True story.
As mobile device usage grows exponentially, the web developer community’s assumptions about user experience are being challenged. We’re realizing that what we thought we knew about how to build web sites was becoming too formulaic, treating our users as cookie cutter entities. Fortunately, many have started exploring ways to deliver appropriate user experiences, not just for “mobile” users, but for all users.
How to Customize a Drupal Distribution
by: buildamodule
In this webinar, Chris introduces Acquia's Drupal distribution, Drupal Commons. Even though the presentation talks about Commons, the customization is applicable to most Drupal sites. This session covers:
1. How to customize text in a few different ways
2. How to use the Context module to hide a block
3. How to use the Views module to change the order of a content list to be sorted alphabetically.
4. How to use the Views module to change the number of items displayed and add a pager.
5. How to add a custom Box / Block and use it to replace content on the home page.
A look at Drupal's core comment system
by: drupify
A quick introduction to Drupal cores comment system. Topics include common comment settings, permissions, and ways to administer comments.
Publish a blog
by: drupify
Learn how to publish a blog with Drupal 7's built in tools. The screen cast will go through creating a new blog post, managing and configuring some blog settings such as display and publishing options, and creating tags to relate content by keyword.
With One Click
by: DrupalCon London
Presented by
Marcus Deglos
Joel Spolsky describes the Joel Test as his "highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team" and one of the questions he asks is: Can you make a build in one step?
If you're a Drupal developer who's making changes to a site, your deployment process to push those changes to live probably goes something like this:
1. SSH to the live server
2. Checkout the updated code from SVN
3. Go to the admin modules page, enable some modules
4. Go to the configuration pages for those modules, make some changes
by: John Albin Wilkins
Recently, I received an email invite for a webinar on mobile device development. I tried to sign up via my iphone, but was told that my mobile device wasn’t supported. True story.
As mobile device usage grows exponentially, the web developer community’s assumptions about user experience are being challenged. We’re realizing that what we thought we knew about how to build web sites was becoming too formulaic, treating our users as cookie cutter entities. Fortunately, many have started exploring ways to deliver appropriate user experiences, not just for “mobile” users, but for all users.
How to Customize a Drupal Distribution
by: buildamodule
In this webinar, Chris introduces Acquia's Drupal distribution, Drupal Commons. Even though the presentation talks about Commons, the customization is applicable to most Drupal sites. This session covers:
1. How to customize text in a few different ways
2. How to use the Context module to hide a block
3. How to use the Views module to change the order of a content list to be sorted alphabetically.
4. How to use the Views module to change the number of items displayed and add a pager.
5. How to add a custom Box / Block and use it to replace content on the home page.
A look at Drupal's core comment system
by: drupify
A quick introduction to Drupal cores comment system. Topics include common comment settings, permissions, and ways to administer comments.
Publish a blog
by: drupify
Learn how to publish a blog with Drupal 7's built in tools. The screen cast will go through creating a new blog post, managing and configuring some blog settings such as display and publishing options, and creating tags to relate content by keyword.
With One Click
by: DrupalCon London
Presented by
Marcus Deglos
Joel Spolsky describes the Joel Test as his "highly irresponsible, sloppy test to rate the quality of a software team" and one of the questions he asks is: Can you make a build in one step?
If you're a Drupal developer who's making changes to a site, your deployment process to push those changes to live probably goes something like this:
1. SSH to the live server
2. Checkout the updated code from SVN
3. Go to the admin modules page, enable some modules
4. Go to the configuration pages for those modules, make some changes