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Drupal Tutorial - How to Override a Block Templates from a Custom Module

When I was creating a new module called Responsive Menu Combined, I wanted to find a solution for overriding the block templates. This is very easy to do when you are trying to do this inside your theme. The solution to do it inside a module is not as straightforward. Read more about Drupal Tutorial - How to Override a Block Templates from a Custom Module

What if Drupal formed a partnership with Balsamiq.

What if Drupal formed a partnership with Balsamiq. Balsamiq hosted all diagrams for each and every project. Every Drupal project page would have a link to Balsamiq diagram page. Read more about What if Drupal formed a partnership with Balsamiq.

Drupal in Higher Education

The recent years have seen the adoption of Drupal-powered websites in educational or institutional websites. This article describes a list of tools to help your University and/or college uses Drupal better. Read more about Drupal in Higher Education

Drupal Tutorial - Upgrading Drupal Core on your websites with Git

In this Drupal tutorial I will outline how to upgrade your Drupal website from one version to the next using Git. This applies to both Drupal 6.x and Drupal 7.x, as well as, any future versions. This deals with the Drupal core files and not the database. Read more about Drupal Tutorial - Upgrading Drupal Core on your websites with Git

Drupal Tutorial - Creating an embedded video or audio player for a link field

Use Case:

Objective

As an administrator or a content editor you want to add a link to your content type.
To the end user you want the link to be displayed as an embedded player.

Example of Adminstrative Workflow

Creating a new field

How to track files downloaded with filebrowser

Today I had a client that wanted to track the private files their users download. They used the filebrowser module as the user interface to browse the private directory. preview of filebrowser There is no tracking system with this module. In addition, filebrowser handles files differently than the default Drupal system. Usually every time a file is downloaded the file_download() function is called. Read more about How to track files downloaded with filebrowser

Problems judging how many hours it takes to theme a Drupal website

From Personal Experience with a Themer and Developer Working Together

A themer can work in parallel with a developer. It usually takes 20-30 hours to theme a site from a psd. However, with a different person theming from developing, a bit more time will be needed for theming. Read more about Problems judging how many hours it takes to theme a Drupal website

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