Posts about Development

January 25, 2012 by Art

Revisited: Mega Menus in Drupal 7

Back in September, I wrote a blog post about making Mega Menus in Drupal. After publishing the post I found numerous issues with the proposed method and ended up using another method on the project that precipitated the article. After recently receiving a few comments on the original post I realized that it was time for a followup.

January 18, 2012 by Art

Change the Output of a Single Field on a Drupal 7 Node

Overriding the output of an individual field on a node can be done by overriding the node template, but it sure does feel like overkill for just one field. Sometimes it would be great to just override the field itself without touching the field values in the database.

January 11, 2012 by Art

Overriding Page Templates per Content Type in Drupal 7

Overriding a template file is relatively common task for a front-end developer, but depending on the base theme used it’s not always clear how to go about doing it.

January 4, 2012 by Art

Digett's Favorite Drupal 7 Contrib Modules

We've been using Drupal 7 for all new sites for the past few months now, so we’ve put together a base site that we mirror to begin development on each new site. These are the contrib modules that we use on our base site. The modules in the Foundational and Everysite lists are always enabled by default.

December 28, 2011 by Art

Lessons Learned from a Hacked Website

Within the last couple of months one of our client’s websites was hacked. This is a rarity, and we responded swiftly to restore a previous version of the site; however, we still needed to get rid of the actual problem. Through the experience there were a number of lessons learned that anyone, whether client or developer could benefit from.

December 21, 2011 by Art

5 Fields Modules for Drupal 7

The addition of Fields in Drupal 7 core has created quite a shakeup in the modules that interact with fields and create new kinds of fields. In Drupal 6 they were all CCK field modules, but now many of them have changed names or been replaced completely with new modules that better leverage the Drupal 7 entity concept. Over the last few month, these five modules have become some of my favorites for those sites...

December 14, 2011 by Art

Adventures in the Drupal Community

An early new year’s resolution for me is to become more involved in the Drupal community. It’s something that I’ve been thinking about for months, but Angie “webchick” Byron’s keynote at DrupalCamp Austin on November 19 gave me the tangible steps and motivation to...

December 7, 2011 by Art

5 Tips for Running a Drupal 7 site on Rackspace Cloud Sites

Tips for running Drupal 7 on Rackspace Cloud Sites

Without going into the positives and negatives of Rackspace’s Cloud Sites platform, there are a few tips that we’ve learned that will help you Run, Deploy and Maintain a Drupal 7 site on this platform.

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