Something I learned today
While theming and developing today I switched from Firefox to Internet Explorer and found that my site had no styles! Ahhh! To save you from possible headaches, here's my finding: IE limits Drupal to 31 stylesheets total. The work-around for the bug is to enable CSS aggregation.
Many modules have their own stylesheets, so when you get to a certain number of modules, plus have your own custom theme, you reach a point like I did today where you pass the threshold. Hope this helps someone!!
Read moreFind a Better Name for "skip-navigation" Class
We need to come up with a good name for a CSS class, but I don't want this discussion to clutter up the issue queue. (Let's reserve the queue for presenting and discussing patches that fix functional or programmatic problems.) So I'm posting this item to see if we can develop an idea that is better than the ones we've already come up with.
Read moreThe little CONFIGURE box that pops up
OK, for some reason, the configure 'thing' (someone give me a better word) that appears when logged in as an admin when you hover over certain objects is taking over. The block for the configure is overlapping content I need to click on! Specifically Panels.
When I say configure, let me clarify that the link will look something like this:
mysite.com/admin/build/block/configure/...
Templates interessantes
Alguns temas free que achei perdidos por ai(fora dos sites principais)
http://drupaltrainer.com/theme/slo-base
http://drupaltrainer.com/theme/purple-drupal
http://drupaltrainer.com/theme/lauramba
http://drupaltrainer.com/theme/bluegirl
Read moreShowcasing a showcase - http://stuar.tc/lark
This is the site that I've been trying to finish for well too long, my own personal portfolio. While not an overly complicated site, every little detail had to be just right before I could confidently launch the site.

"Ultra Light" User Experience / User Interface Design & Drupal for Startups
I run a group of tech entrepreneurs called Ultra Light Startups (http://ultralightstartups.com/) and I'm interested in the use of Drupal in startups for several reasons. Many of our members' startups are either already built on Drupal or they are evaluating use of Drupal for a project. Several of our members are also active in the NYC Drupal community. Also, after hosting an event on Open Source CMS's last fall, I became convinced that Drupal was the right platform for several of my own projects, including a planned major upgrade to the Ultra Light Startups site.
Read moreAdaptiveThemes reaching out to the designer crowd
This week I re-launched AdaptiveThemes as the first site to crowd source commercial Drupal themes. Sounds like a radical idea and it probably is. I seen crowdsourcing work for a number of other high profile design projects and I believe these crowd sourced themes can be a huge win for Drupal users and the Drupal designer and themer communities.
The concept is strait forward:
- Designers upload designs
- Themers convert the designs into beautiful Drupal themes
- We sell them and split the profits 50/50, designer gets half, themer gets half
Questions on Theming: Build your own or use an existing theme?
I have just finished my first drupal site and I just need some clarification and input about building themes.
In the site I just built, I used the Zen theme. It worked totally fine for me as far as i can tell. If anything, i feel like it included a lot i did not use and i deleted a lot of the code that i thought was extraneous.
At the DUG meeting last week, someone did a lighting round on building your own theme.
I am just curious, what do most people making professional sites for clients use? Do you use an existing theme or do you build your own?
Read moreAccordion Blocks module released for Drupal
Folks, we're happy to roll out yet another module for Drupal. It's called “Accordion Blocks”. As the name says, this module provides an accordion effect to all your blocks. You can also apply jQuery UI themes through the configuration settings of the module.
This block is for those of you who deploy apps with a lot of blocks on either side bars, and are looking for newer usability enhancements with regards to visibility of the blocks. It not only minimizes all blocks on a Drupal page, but provides a cool accordion effect to help your user to concentrate on a single block at a time.
Read moreAdobe.com Drupal article: Using Drupal themes with Dreamweaver CS4
The second article in my Drupal series for Adobe.com is out now. This article covers Drupal Themes, Dreamweaver tip(s) when working with Drupal, and shows off the Drupal Theme Starter desktop software.
"Understand the fundamentals of a Drupal theme and how Dreamweaver CS4 helps designers produce these themes."
Read the article now at http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/drupal_themes_with_dwcs...
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