Adding effects to your Drupal jCarousel implementation

drupal, jCarousel, jquery, theming, viewscarousel

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.

Posted 05/06/2010 - 09:02

Drupal 6 Theming for Module Developers - Suggesting TPLs From a Module

drupal, drupalplanet, hooks, override, panels, theming, views

Irakli:

The ability to write self-contained modules (thank you, Hooks API!) and a very flexible theming layer are two important aspects behind the power and extensibility of Drupal. The following blog post describes how to leverage this power and write "proper" modules - modules that externalize all rendering logic into TPLs, suggest default implementation but allow themers to override default TPLs if needed. Several use-cases are discussed.

Posted 04/10/2010 - 13:08 // 2 comments

Theming Views in Drupal 6

drupal, drupal 6, theming, views

Irakli:

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.

Posted 07/02/2008 - 23:20 // 18 comments

Remove a Drupal tab

drupal, theming

Frank:

Have you ever been looking at a page on your Drupal site (like the login page) and wanted to remove a pesky tab (like the “Request a new password” tab), but could not figure out how to do it? Me neither, until recently. I went spelunking through the Drupal and theming core and uncovered some gems.

Posted 02/22/2008 - 18:17 // 21 comments