Drupal

Webmonkey interviews Dries Buytaert

Posted: Sat, 21/06/2008 - 12:43

Filed under: Drupal

Brief but interesting interview with Dries Buytaert, about Drupal's history, plans for its future and Acquia's role.

Quick reminder: Drupal NWUK User Group

Posted: Tue, 19/02/2008 - 07:13

Filed under: Drupal

Quick reminder: Drupal NWUK user group is meeting on Wednesday at the MDDA. Whether you know Drupal inside-out or would just like to know what it's all about, come along (if you're going to Leeds GeekUp you'll just have to be in two places at once: we'll try to avoid clashes in future).

Drupal 6 Released

Posted: Wed, 13/02/2008 - 17:47

Filed under: Drupal

It's on the shelves! http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0
Chris and I will run through the new features at the Drupal user group next week.

Drupal Training Course Details

Posted: Mon, 11/02/2008 - 15:35

Filed under: Drupal

Chris and I have sorted the time and place for our Drupal training course in Manchester: Wednesday 9th April at the MDDA.

Pop to the menusandblocks website for more info, or give one of us a call if you've got any questions!

Path checking in Drupal 6

Posted: Fri, 08/02/2008 - 07:33

Filed under: Drupal

The menu system in Drupal 6 has been completely rewritten, but most of the changes are under the hood.

Drupal 6 RC3 released

Posted: Thu, 31/01/2008 - 08:53

Filed under: Drupal

Download it. Find bugs. Let them know.
As the release notes point out, Views 2 is still a couple of weeks off at least, but that doesn't mean we can't have fun trying out all the other goodies in 6.

Drupal NW February Meeting

Posted: Mon, 28/01/2008 - 14:52

Filed under: Drupal

Details here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/419074/
Groups page here: http://groups.drupal.org/north-west-uk

I'm planning to do a talk on Drupal 6 theming, to have a look at what's new, what's cool and why themes can be made of CSS and CSS alone. I wasn't planning on being quite so busy, but I should be able to put something together before then... (he hopes!)

See you there!

menusandblocks: Drupal training in the North West

Posted: Sat, 26/01/2008 - 18:11

Filed under: Drupal, menusandblocks, training

menusandblocks logoChris and I are putting together a Drupal training course and we're really excited about it.

Quick fix for for feed.png in IE6

Posted: Fri, 25/01/2008 - 08:42

Filed under: Internet Explorer, Drupal, CSS

Internet Explorer 6 is still out there and we still have to deal with it. Yucky, I know, but wouldn't life be dull if it was all too easy?

If your theme is using a non-white background, here's a quick fix to display the syndication icon in all its rounded-corner loveliness:

a.feed-icon img {
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=0);
}
a.feed-icon {

Converting a static HTML page to a Drupal 5 theme

Posted: Mon, 14/01/2008 - 22:37

Filed under: Drupal, Themes

I've posted the notes from my Drupal 5 theming talk on drupal.org.uk: http://www.drupal.org.uk/node/474 (at the Drupal NW UK User Group meeting in December 2007).

I'm hoping to put together a talk on Drupal 6 theming for the February meetup. See you there!

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