Posted by kushkkg on January 17, 2012 at 6:41am
Hi !
I started using Drupal last year and have a live site too.
But now I am facing issues customizing my site or adding new features to it.
Simple things have become hurdles for me-
- I am using a WYSIWYG editor on every page and published data using font-size available in the editor.
Now I want to reduce the font size of all pages data. I tried playing with the CSS and was able to reduce font size of headers and side bar contents but not the page data published using the WYSIWYG editor. So , I am stuck! - I wanted to add a drop-down(combo box) and after a lot of search, I got the module. After installing and enabling it, I was able to use it but not able to put it at a place I want to put it on the screen.
- I heard a lot about Views and tried using it, but was only successful in creating a simple view of latest content on the site and was able to put the block on the side-bar. As I understand, there are so many things one can do with views- like creating sections on each page with an introduction and 'read more' button of different pages and things like that. But currently I am not able to leverage it.
Took youtube tutorials help but not of much use. - I want to learn customization of all major parts of a theme using CSS or any other file so that I can save a lot of time in implementing other things.
Considering all these problems, I feel I need to attend some Drupal training. I am in Mumbai and would love to know if any such trainings/events is planned by anyone in near future?
Any other suggestions welcome.
Cheers
Kush
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For (1), a) it should
For (1),
a) it should definitely be controllable by CSS. Seek a css-expert's help on this.
b) OR, you could identify the pattern of the HTML that is defining the font size from the WYSIWIG HTML and run a query on the node table to replace the font size of all nodes at once.
c) OR, you can use http://drupal.org/project/customfilter
you could identify the pattern and replace it on the fly. This will be resource heavy though.
2) What is it that you eaxctly need to do with a drop down. If its a simple form consider using http://drupal.org/project/webform
3) You tube/other screencasts do help. You must watching some really bad videos. Try drupalize.me . There are some free ones also out there.
4) You should be able to customize almost anuthing with a bit of CSS and playing around with the .tpl files
Try figuring out the above 4 yourself without training! Play with Drupal yourself. It is fun,. Go for a training only as a last resort if you feel you are not game enough to do them yourself.
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