Irakli:
Drupal Multisite is a powerful and mature tool for creating platform deployments of Drupal-based web-systems. However creating a release structure that allows atomic deployments of individual sites within a multisite is a somewhat less explored problem. Presented blog post describes one such approach that uses Subversion version control and a set of bash scripts for Linux to automate the process.
Posted Jun 4, 2010
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Joshua:
Drupal can be used to build so many different kinds of cool things that, as developers, we sometimes forget that the users of our sites - and, more importantly, our clients - don't see their website through the same eyes that we do.
Posted Jun 2, 2010
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Samantha:
There is nothing more frustrating than going to a website that is hard to navigate or poorly designed. Users seek information and when that information is difficult to access, it causes a breakdown in communication, frustration, and a bad experience.
Laura:
Recently, I had the happy opportunity to participate in Sunlight Lab's Design for America Challenge. Happy, because I'm gung-ho about this organization's stated mission: "To make government data more accessible and comprehensible to the American public." The five grand prize was nothing to sneeze at, either.
Jeff:
As one of the very first widely adopted and professionally created Drupal distributions, OpenPublish has been an active growing project now through 2 major releases and over 8 minor releases since we first released it in January of 2009. OpenPublish has had a good run so far in 2010 with lots of exciting developments to share. As its creator and maintainer, Phase2 Technology has invested over 3,000 employee hours into this effort. I hope this post helps explain a bit about why we think that effort has been worth it.
Posted May 24, 2010
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Brad :
If you have a Drupal installation, such as Pressflow, that does not initialize sessions for anonymous users, you may have found that the OpenID module does not work correctly. There is an easy way to fix this without resorting to a core patch.
Posted May 18, 2010
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Tobby :
When building a site in Drupal (or any content management system, really), there are often concerns about how the site will perform. It's fairly easy to take measures to reduce the impact of anonymous traffic on server resources (cacheing, using CDNs, etc). However, much of what Drupal offers is the ability for users to interact with the site far beyond that of a traditional static site. So now you have a complete site built, and you're sure it can handle your anonymous traffic, and you want to test how well your site will perform when users log in and start doing things (such as leaving comments).
Brad :
Many sites make use of the jCarousel and viewscarousel modules for Drupal to display slideshows of content. But what you may not know is that there are many ways to add effects to your carousels beyond the standard configuration options.
Erik:
Section Fronts can mean a lot of different things. But in general they are a page that aggregates stories around a topic or section. I will run through using the Views Arguments Extras module to easily implement a section front concept in drupal.
Posted Apr 28, 2010
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Brad :
You may often have content in Drupal that should not appear for certain user roles. There are many ways to accomplish this in the CMS, but restricting them from search results is often overlooked. If you are using Apache Solr for your search engine, you can use the apachesolr module's hooks to determine what search results are returned.
Posted Apr 27, 2010
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