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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
After just completing my first Drupal theme created from scratch, it was a big learning curve trying to style certain aspects of the content, especially some of the Views generated content but that’s a discussion for another day. Wrestling with the different settings and style sheets included with modules took a bit of time and although it’s only a basic theme, I was quite pleased with it. After completing this and fighting with the code to a certain extent, I was curious what changes would be made to theming in Drupal 7 after the involvement of Mark Boulton and the whole D7UX project. (more…)
Tags: design, Drupal 7, Drupal themes
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Drupal 7 Alpha
Sunday, January 24th, 2010
Drupal and Wordpress are the two Content Management Systems I use regularly when developing sites, and as Wordpress updates to 2.9.1, Drupal has recently released the alpha version of the upcoming Drupal 7. Having heard a lot about the progress over the last few months, and of the contribution to the D7UX project by Mark Boulton, I was curious to see what the alpha version would be like and yesterday I downloaded a copy to play with in a local environment and there are a few major noticeable differences from previous versions straight away.
Tags: alpha, D7UX, Drupal 7, review
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First Steps after installing Drupal
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
Having installed Drupal a fair number of times now, I’ve got into a routine of essential things that I run through for each and every project regardless of the details of that topics, things that are generic to any Drupal installation and thought I would share them here. These are the same steps that I go through each and every time, before adding the project specific modules and functionality etc.
Tags: configuration, Drupal, drupal first steps, modules, themes
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