Category: Tutorials
Audrey Foo: CVSing back your drupal site. -
The benefits of using source control are great. It is like working with another developer, to review your code changes, even if you are all by yourself, not to mention being able to rollback any changes that you have made.
When using drupal, I like to grab core, modules and themes using cvs rather than downloading files. I find it easier to keep core and modules up-to-date while maintaining the patches I might have applied to a module.
Appnovation Technologies: Guidelines for Adapting Web Site Designs for Mobile Delivery - Tue, Feb 23, 2010 by Scott
Page Content
People on a mobile device are not ‘browsing’, but rather they are looking for a specific piece of information.
Use the clearest and simplest language instead of a discursive style for site content.
Divide pages into usable but limited size portions.
We've been playing around with Managing News here for a few months now, and it's an interesting beastie. Here's a nice article from Development Seed about extending the mapping in Managing News.
Development Seed: Customizing Maps and Geo Data in Managing News -
Using custom map tiles and open geo data to build a hyper local news tracker
Managing News ships with its maps and geotagging features preconfigured for tracking global news on a world map. But user interface improvements in Managing News Beta 7 make it easy to use an alternate map layer and import custom location data so you can track news in a specific geographic region.
This screencast shows how I was able to tailor my maps to focus on the city of Washington, DC and plot the stories published on various neighborhood blogs. I used open geographic data from the DC government and the DC Nightvision tileset from MapBox.
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[Drupal Planet]
This is another brief tutorial article on creating panels in Panels 3 - Panels 2 is essentially dead, so it's time to start to learn the new more-complex world of panels 3. Thanks to Michelle Cox for this.
Bewildered by the new Panels 3 software and how to deal with it? Michelle Cox explains this part in a tutorial.
Handy Tutorial from the GotDrupal folks on how to set up relationships in views 2, and what that is all about.
This is a nice brief tutorial from the great folks at Advantage Labs that shows you how to do theme overrides for attachments.
