For Drupalers in Western Montana, here's your chance to come out of the woodwork, gather, share what you know, and have fun with other Big Sky Drupal fans.
This is your group! Please join, start discussions, make friends, and use this group to learn and share what you know.
Free Acquia Drupal Webinar: Scaling Microsites for the Enterprise
Organizations no longer manage one or two websites. Every department has multiple sites, however this proliferation of microsites raises challenges.
Drupal Gardens offers a scalable Drupal-as-a-Service platform tailored to the needs of enterprise customers who need to deploy and manage their library of microsites while complimenting their primary web properties. Join Acquia for this one-hour webinar where attendees will learn:
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December First Tuesday Missoula Drupal Meeting
We will hold our monthly informal Drupal meetup Tuesday, December 7, 6:30pm at Zootown Brew coffee on Broadway.
This will be a casual, open meetup. Many of us enjoy time for informal learning and networking so that's what we'll have tonight. Got a Drupal problem you're stumped with? Looking for just the right module for your new site? Want to show off something cool? This is the right forum for that!
Hope to see you there!
Meetup Details
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
6:30 to 8:30 pm (or whenever)
Zootown Brew
121 West Broadway
Missoula MT
(406) 543-2549
UM Web Standards
I am fishing for thoughts on how to create a consistent header on every page of a Drupal 6 site in order to be compliant with the UM Web Standards - similar to what is at the top of the FireCenter page. Would this best be accomplished with a php snipit or 3rd party module? Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks so much,
Niels
Drupal 7 RC1!
At long last the critical bug count went to zero today - and they shipped Release Candidate 1. It might be a few more weeks until they ship though - but we're getting there.
Harold
Structured Drupal Class - Build A Powerful Custom Website With Drupal
Our popular Getting Started with Drupal series will be moving to a more formal setting in early 2011. Andy and Scott will be offering a structured beginning Drupal course at The Lifelong Learning Center here in Missoula.
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Drupal panels
OMG! Do I love the panels module.
I haven't delved deeply into panels and mini-panels just yet but...
I was driving myself crazy coding my front page so I had a two panel gateway into two separate sites. Actually they are all on the same install and really just one site. I wanted two distinct pictures (jpegs) that represented each the site/side they were hyper-linked to and to have the text above centered. No matter how I Div'ed the node in the editor I couldn't get even and centered text nor the hyper-linking pictures satisfactorily positioned.
Read moreMultiple themes-same Parent site
I desired a module to allow theme switching and special node type assignments. I wanted to have a splash page that led to two different looking sites even though it was one master site.
Drupal core doesn't yet have this feature built in like other CMS's do. ThemeKey to the rescue!
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CANCELLED: Getting Started with Drupal Part 7 – Adding video to your site
Class has been CANCELLED due to lack of signups. If there's interest we'll reschedule it.
On Thursday November 18 we continue the media theme in our monthly 'Getting Started with Drupal Series'. This month we'll cover: Adding video to your site.
What we'll cover in this class:
- Different approaches in Drupal to adding video
- Using Embedded Media module to create fields that embed video from YouTube, Vimeo, local files and other providers
- Using Video Filter module to freeform embed video anywhere you can add text
- Touch briefly on advanced options like creating your own video workflows, storing videos on amazon S3, etc.
This is a hands-on class, so bring your laptop and follow along! (You can still benefit even without one, though.)
Read moredrupalize.me
Our friends at Lullabot have just launched drupalize.me, a subscription site with access to the entire Lullabot video library. This includes all the videos in the Lullabot learning series (some of which Lullabot donated in DVD format to our group library) as well as many other hands-on videos from the Do It With Drupal conference. In essence this is Lullabot's Lynda.com-style training video site, just for Drupal (well, and jQuery too!)
Subscriptions are $55/month. Use the coupon code SUPERDRUPAL for $20 off the first month. That offer expires on November 19th. Considering the price of the DVD's, if you're serious about learning Drupal this is a terrific opportunity.
I'm talking to Lullabot about possible discounts for our group members, and will update you when I know any more details.
Read moreAcquia Webinar on Drupal Commons Thurs 11/11
I thought some of you would be interested in this:
Under the covers of Drupal Commons - the "Instant Community" distribution
Drupal Commons is a pre-assembled Drupal distribution you can use to build a community site. Whether for internal collaboration or for an open community, Drupal Commons slashes the work required to stand your site up.
In this webinar, find out what’s inside Commons, and how to use it – and extend it.
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Zootown Brew. Thursday 11/11/10 6:30 pm. Caffeine + Conversation.
Hey all-
I'll be down at Zootown Brew from around 6:30pm until 8:30pm working on a current Drupal site and getting my necessary caffeine intake. Anyone who wants to come down, "talk shop", hang out, answer questions or share solutions should definitely join.
If not, till next time! ;-)
-Brett
Read moreTwo cool podcasts Nodequeue & Node References modules from Mustardseed
If you have never seen Bob and his podcasts from Mustardseed, now is your chance to and to bookmark his lessons. Granted some 'casts do not go deep down the rabbit holes but he does give great tutes to get one started.
I had been struggling to understand all the switches and what the cause and effect is with aspects of some Drupal modules. The two referenced podcasts help sort some of this out. Hope they help you as well.
This podcast is regarding Node References:
http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode37
This podcast is regarding Nodequeue:
Read moreLarge-Scale Web Site Infrastructure and Drupal | Linux Journal Nov 01, 2010 by Jerad Bitner and Nate Haug
Setting up a Drupal Web site is pretty simple these days, until it gets popular, then you need to bring out the big guns and start finding and fixing the performance bottlenecks. In this article, we show some of the techniques that can allow your Drupal Web site to scale to the grandiose levels you originally hoped for.
*Thanks to Christopher Cable for this story
Read moreNovember Missoula Drupal Meetup 11/4 @ 6:30pm
Normally scheduled on the first Tuesday evening, we will be having our monthly informal Drupal meetup Thursday November 4th, 6:30pm at Zootown Brew coffee on Broadway in order to accommodate those who want to attend the Day of the Dead Parade on Tuesday.
This will be a casual, open meetup. Many of us enjoy time for informal learning and networking so that's what we'll have tonight. Got a Drupal problem you're stumped with? Looking for just the right module for your new site? Want to show off something cool? This is the right forum for that!
Scott and I have each have some cool new stuff we've been working on we can talk about.
Hope to see you there!
Meetup Details
6:30 to 8:30 pm (or whenever)
Zootown Brew
121 West Broadway
Missoula MT
(406) 543-2549
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10 Essential Drupal Modules for Higher Earnings | Website Magazine
WordPress, WordPress, WordPress – all anyone talks about anymore is WordPress.
A recent comparison of the top CMS/blogging platforms found that WordPress is growing at a significantly higher rate than competitors Joomla and Drupal. However, upon closer inspection of the data, it is apparent that Drupal ranks first in one very important category – earnings. At least among freelance and work-at-home Web professionals.
Read moreFree Acquia Drupal Webinar
Dear Colleague,
One of the more complex problems in managing large Drupal projects is keeping development, staging and production environments in sync. As projects grow in complexity, including multiple developers and more features, it becomes ever more important to have a reliable, repeatable process for deploying new functionality to the production website.
Join Joshua Brauer, Acquia Client Advisor, for this complimentary webinar where he'll cover:
Using version control for your Drupal project
Migrating your code, files and database between sites
Wordpress Vs. Drupal: Web Pro's Follow the Money
Great article on why choosing Drupal may help you make more money as a developer.
"Freelance job search engine DoNanza released its quarterly State of the Work-From-Home and Freelancing Economy report which reveals how the rival CMS/Blogging platforms fared in the third quarter of 2010, most notably WordPress, Joomla and Drupal." http://bit.ly/9sgwqu
Read moreCo-Working Session
We're gonna try something new next week. I'll be working downtown at ZooTown Brew on Monday, October 25 from 1:00pm - 7:00pm, and I invite any interested group members to stop by for part or all of that time for a bit of co-working.
This means that, if you come, you can just sit and work on your own projects, converse with others about Drupal or CSS or whatever, or look to others for help with any specific questions you may have.
How to get the most out of this session
Everyone is welcome to attend. You don't have to help anyone else out, if you don't want to. However, most people have something to offer other people. If someone has a question to which you know the answer, don't hesitate to help them out.
If you have questions/problems you want some help resolving at this session, here are some tips to get the best results:
- A general "help me with Drupal" probably isn't the best way to approach it. Think of a specific area or two in which you need the most help.
- This isn't limited to Drupal questions. HTML, CSS, etc, etc are welcome topics, too.
- Respect that others may be working. If the topic drifts too far from where it started, it may be time to reel things back in or give the helper/helpee a break.
Creating a Simple Photo Slideshow in Drupal
Drupal has taken it pretty hard regarding its image handling abilities. I won't say that it's not warranted. Drupal 7 has really made some improvements to image handling. The instructions here are for building a simple photo slideshow in Drupal 6. The process would be different (read "easier") in Drupal 7.
Read moreCSS. hmmm..
Ahhh, nothing like a rousing Drupal session to get the spark going! A big thanks goes out to everyone who attended. Great questions, great answers!
After getting the Drupal gears lubed up a bit more, I am continuing to see where a solid foundation in CSS can go a long way in continuing development. I am familiar with firebug and have done some minor themeing, but I really need to reach out and grasp how CSS works on a higher-level to be more efficient and continue onward with things like Javascript and the DOM.
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