drupal

Any reasonably complex Drupal website involves using Views for listing items and CCK for the creation of custom content types. Since each website has a unique look, a large part of creating a Drupal website is theming Views and nodes.

Drupal theming has changed with Drupal 6 and so has the Views theming. Here is a quick introduction to the new theming approach in Drupal 6 and Views 2.

The next Northern Virginia Drupal Meetup is on Tuesday, July 8th from 6 – 8 at Teqcorner in Mclean. More information here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12804

Recently, we chatted with Acquia about the Calais modules for integration with Drupal that we developed in partnership with Thomson Reuters.

Listen to the podcast here: http://acquia.com/node/269

Content-Construction Kit (CCK) is a standard way, in Drupal, to add properties to the core content item - a Node. There are many CCK Modules that provide a large variety of field types, from e-mail fields to image or video ones. Even so, sometimes standard toolset is just not enough and we need to write our own implementation. This short run-through of a tutorial will get you started. For more detailed documentation, you can refer to the offical CCK tutorial.

Tonight’s meetup will feature a presentation from Worthpoint’s Amran Anwar about scaling Drupal to 1,000,000+ dynamic page views a day. We’ll kickoff the presentation at 6:15. Hope to see you there!

With all of the recent hoopla we have been stirring up on our blog and in the Drupal community about the Drupal Calais modules, it is easy to lose track of all the other fantastic things we have been doing here at Phase2. Here is a quick rundown of some of our latest projects.

A quick look at some high-level Drupal functions for performing extreme transformations on a form.

On Tuesday, May 12th, we hope to see you at TeqCorner to hear Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing at Acquia, Inc, discuss his views on overall trends in the content management market, specifically in Drupal as a social publishing system.

Phase2 technology has developed and released an integration module between Drupal CMS and the Calais Web-Service. The Calais web service allows you to automatically annotate your content with rich semantic metadata. The Calais module, developed by Phase2 brings the power of Calais into Drupal.

Lately I have been seeing more and more examples of cutting edge sites built on Drupal. My favorite magazine just went completely collaborative online with a great redesign and a full suite of community features - check it out...Fast Company @ http://www.fastcompany.com/.