Becoming friends with the Drupal Color module — Part 1 | Mearra. This is a tutorial how you can easily take advantage of Color module on your custom theme on Drupal 7. Color is a module that comes with the Drupal core. It offers very nice re-coloring of your theme with minimal coding. Many popular themes are taking advantage of the Color module, such as AdaptiveTheme, BlogBuzz, Pixture Reloaded, RootCandy, Sky and multiple others. This is the basic configuration part of your friendship with Color and will only handle the background color/text color changes. The Part 2 (coming up!) Will take your relationship with Color into a more intimate level. So let's get started with the basics. A custom themeColor module enabledFew lines of code There's an archive attached at the bottom of the post with the implementation that I'm going to create here. I have a simple theme that looks like this by default.
Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. Now your theme directory should look something like this: Step 6. /** * PART 1. Step 6.1. // Color schemes for the site. How to create a simple Drupal 7 theme from scratch. By Megan McDermott, 21 September 2011 - 11:30am Drupal theming can seem complicated and overwhelming. Even basic starter themes are filled with confusing PHP and convoluted CSS. What's a designer to do?
Never fear, it is completely possible to create your own theme from scratch. This article will demonstrate a step-by-step process for creating your own Drupal theme, including a .info file, page template, regions, and CSS. This article will assume that you have some basic knowledge of Drupal setup, theming, and terminology. It will also assume that you know all the HTML and CSS you need to build your design. The previous version of this article can be found at How to create a Drupal 6 theme from scratch. Why create a theme from scratch? Instructions for creating a Drupal theme usually tell you to start with an existing theme or base theme and customize it for your needs.
The other problem with this is that it doesn't help you to understand how Drupal theming actually works. 1. 2. 3. <? 4. Web Hosting Services, Reseller Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Servers by HostGator. Drupal Theme from a Photoshop Design in Seconds! Social bookmarking profile (DrupMarks) 10 must have Drupal Modules - Geshan's Blog. Drupal is one of the most flexible, modular and customizable open source Content Management System (CMS) powering thousands of websites (my list here). It is not only easy to kick start a site using Drupal but advantageous in numerous ways, primary the seamlessly pluggable modules and themes make Drupal an obvious choice.
Drupal 6 is out and being widely used but modules of Drupal 5 have not been fully transformed to Drupal 6. Here are 10 must have modules in your Drupal 5 site to have solid base for your site. Let’s divide the 10 modules in three parts: create the nodes, add some jazz and finally protect and administer.The first four modules are to create your nodes effectively, then add some jazz to the created modules with the next four modules then protect your site from spam and fast and effort free administration. A. 1. 2.TinyMCE: Tiny Mexicode Editor claims to be the most popular rich text editor for form text area. B.Add Some Jazz: Geshan Manandhar. Top 12 Free Content Management Systems (CMS) Building websites by hand with all html/css pages was fine a couple years ago, but these days there are a ton of awesome Content Management System options out there that make our jobs as developers and website publishers SO much easier! So, What Exactly Is A Content Management System?
According to Wikipedia, they describe a CMS as follows: A web content management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is a content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A CMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential Web maintenance functions. So take a moment and look over the list below of the 12 best free cms options available. Some might seem really familiar (we love wordpress) and some others might be new to you. WordPress ↓ Joomla ↓ Drupal ↓ SilverStripe ↓ Cushy CMS ↓ Frog CMS ↓ MODx ↓ Open Enterprise. Open Enterprise is designed to greatly simplify deployment of typical Drupal websites and popular components. It leverages the novel Apps model to enable one click installs of a growing library of popular plug and play features such as blogs, FAQs, events, locations and photo galleries.
Its primary goal is to make Drupal simple enough for non-technical people yet retain all of Drupal’s legendary power and flexibility. Open Enterprise was designed to serve three needs: Enhanced Drupal base install – By moving the bulk of site building to Apps that can be installed at any time, the Open Enterprise core is able to be lightweight and adaptable for virtually any Drupal project. The core contains essential modules, usability enhancements and a clever WYSIWYG implementation.
Watch the 5 minute Open Enterprise Demo Small Core One of the unique things about the OpenEnterprise distribution is our introduction of the "Small Core" concept. Installation Available Apps Available Themes. Comparison of Rotator / Slider modules. This page came about as a result of this post that lists Tabs and Slideshow Modules in the Similar Module Review group. The linked post lists several modules that provide either tabbed content or rotating content.
There are two general use cases here: A device to provide access to large amounts of regular site content from one area of the page (tabbed content).A device to showcase featured content, often on the home page, in an eye-catching manner (rotating/sliding content). This comparison page is limited to the latter use case. It is open to discussion whether the ideal eventual outcome of any consolidation between the best features of the best of the modules would be a package that includes both types of feature. Also, note a caution about misusing carousels: Most popular modules overview There are many modules that provide some sort of slideshow / rotator functionality, so it can be difficult to decide which one to use. Other available modules overview. Build Kit. Get started building with Drupal fast. Build Kit is a basic distribution meant to capture elements that are generally useful and make building Drupal sites and Drupal distributions easier. Build Kit helps site builders use install profiles and drush make for defining projectsmanage the dev > staging > live workflow problem using Features and exportableskeep track of important upstream patches that are critical to Drupal distributions Requirements In addition to the standard Drupal requirements you will need the following to make use of Build Kit: Getting started (7.x) Use drush to download Build Kit $ drush dl buildkitChoose the "Build Kit" install profile when installing Drupal Extending Build Kit The Build Kit documentation includes information on extending Build Kit.
The Simple project provides a good example of a Drupal distribution extending Build Kit. Looking for Kit? If you are looking for best practices for building Features try Kit. Projects using Build Kit Simple. OnePage. Tabs and Slideshow Modules (Views based and Otherwise) | groups.drupal.org. First I'll say that this is the very first time I ever joined a group. However, the impulse was overwhelming just to discuss my last 2 tiring weeks of trying to figure out just which rotator/slideshow/tabs module to use. I'd upload a module, then read all the instructions in the readme.txt, also read everything on drupal about the module, and lastly Google any possible instructions that may be available about the module. And finally I'd discover that the module just doesn't do, what was most expected.
So, now I search again for another module that may have what I was looking for, then the exact process as described above was completed all over again, resulting in the same outcome. And yes ddblock was downloaded to my desktop, but it's turn had not come up yet to be loaded. Besides, ddblock has a whole lot of documentation and I'd have to read through all that. Now right around the end of week two, I ran across this group and things begin to look much clearer than ever before. Corporative site. Essentials.