MidCamp — the Midwest Area DrupalCamp — is underway and Aten has joined the Drupal fun. The conference is being held at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). We’re excited to support the event and contribute content, with sessions from James Nettik and Scott Reynen.
For cause-driven organizations, a website is a place to highlight impact, share resources, and build support. While a blog or brochure site can achieve some of these goals, it rarely does it all. Unfortunately, we all too often find organizations confined by the free and low-cost online platforms accessible to them. With that in mind, we’ve built OpenAid. It’s a free and open-source website starter kit developed for nonprofits and grassroots organizations. Its feature set is robust, its architecture flexible, and it can be installed in minutes.
A while ago I made a tool named Sheet2Module, which uses the Config in Code (CINC) module to allow Drupal site builders to make content types and fields directly from Google Spreadsheets. This made a lot of people interested in CINC, but I've found much of that interest was based on a misconception that CINC is focused on spreadsheets.
It has snowed here in Denver once again, so we’re excited for SANDcamp 2015 in sunny San Diego, February 26th through the 28th. The event promises to be full of great Drupal content set in the middle of Mission Bay.
Clients often request the ability to control the crop of the images. In this post we will look at the Manual Crop module, and apply it to what we set up in part one.
Views is an indispensable and powerful module at the heart of Drupal that you can use to quickly generate structured tables or lists of consistently formatted content, and filter and group that content by simple or complex logic. But in pushing Views to do ever more complex and useful things, we can sort of paint ourselves into a corner sometimes. For instance, I have many times created multiple Views displays on a single page that contain overlapping content.
Solid imagery can make or break a design. In our current world of changing screen sizes, screen resolutions, and bandwidth the effective use of imagery has not only become more important, but a lot more challenging.
I often need to create custom Ctools layout plugins. These plugins provide a flexible alternative to Drupal’s core page region system. Creating them is actually quite easy but can feel like a lot of tedious copy and pasting. I recently published a Yeoman generator to help speed things up.
Drupal webforms are useful in a variety of contexts, but the most typical context is something like a contact form: user-facing functionality that needs to exist when a site launches, and be easily edited by a site owner post-launch. In that context, webforms should be created automatically for a smooth, predictable launch.
Let’s say a friend (or a new client) asks you to make a small change to their Drupal website. You’ve never seen this site before and the original developer(s) are long gone. Of course the text is in some obscure block. Sometimes finding where to make the requested change is easy. Sometimes it’s not.
