At this year’s Drupalcon in Washington D.C., lots of Drupal themers got together and tried to identify the major stumbling blocks that allow us to use the CMS (and it's community tools) effectively. One that was mentioned over and over was the CVS system which is required if you want to contribu...
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This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server’s document root and that is the example we use here.
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On this podcast, Bob dives into the basics of the Organic Groups module. Some people are confused about what OG is and how it can and should be used, so he’ll talk about how to set it up, enable notifications, and theme the page so it's more exciting than the standard "river of news" that is ena...
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This command line video covers the three most common commands for compressing and archiving files, including how to get them back out again. Most commonly you first hit the need for these when you download a file and need to get it uncompressed. We’ll cover the following commands: zip unzip gzip...
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Using three contributed modules (Shorten, Short URL and Tweet) I show you how to create short urls for your Drupal site that are easily shared on Twitter. Note: Click the 'full screen' icon (to the left of the volume control) in order to watch online at full 1280x720 resolution. Copyright 2009, ...
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From time to time people will ask me questions about problems they are having with content not displaying properly in nodes. Site developers may have problems displaying images, javascript, flash and php code. The problem is usually related to the input format chosen when publishing the node. Th...
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One of the hardest things to do after getting your Drupal installation up and running is deciding which Drupal modules that you’re going to use. There are literally thousands of modules to choose from, and so this can be quite a daunting task. It's even more overwhelming if you don't have a clea...
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Lesson One of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos. This video shows how to install Drupal to a localhost on a Windows based computer. Wampserver is used to create the proper environment. UPDATE: Be aware that if you install the latest version of Wampserver and co...
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One of Drupal 6’s nice new features allows you to install Drupal using a language other than English. This video will show you how to get a translation, extract it and run the installer with the new language. We will cover the extraction process using three methods (GUI unzip utility, command li...
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On today’s podcast, Bob answers a viewer's question which is also one of the big mysteries to beginning Drupal-ers: "How do I create a custom homepage other than Drupal's default 'river of news' style display?" Today, Bob gives the bare bones basics on his approach to creating custom Drupal home...
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Lesson Four of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos. This video provides guidance on downloading, installing and configuring several contributed modules from Drupal.org. These key modules are some of the most important ones to add no matter what type of site you ...
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This video shows how to install Drupal locally by using the Acquia Drupal stack installer. This is different from my previous localhost install video which required separate installations of Drupal and Wampserver. Acquia’s installer is an all-in-one package that installs Acquia Drupal, MySQ...
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