Posts about Drupal

February 1, 2012 by Art

Battle of the Drupal 7 Modules: CKEditor vs WYSIWYG

CKEditor is the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor of choice around the Digett office. While some may bemoan the use of a WYSIWYG editor at all, even an experienced developer can usually save a lot of time during content entry by using one. Drupal does not come with a built-in editor but there are many excellent options; CKEditor is the cream of the crop.

January 27, 2012 by jd

Leave Arial and Times in the past — @font-your-face to the rescue

If you are a graphic designer or Drupal themer, you don't need to be stuck using Arial on your website; you can easily use a great typeface from one of several providers and implement them using a Drupal module called @font-your-face.

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...

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