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Creating a Custom Panels Layout in Drupal 7 (Video Tutorial)

by , Developer & Client Experience Advocate

There are a lot of great tutorials on the web and, as Chris pointed out, Drupal is a pretty developer friendly platform. With some chutzpah and the power of Google, you can build just about anything in Drupal. But for the beginner to intermediate Drupaler, even a well crafted text tutorial can be just a bit outside their knowledge and hard to follow. As someone who learns visually, sometimes I just wanted someone to show me how to do something. In that spirit, I offer up this lesson on creating your first custom Panels layout. I hope you find it useful and if you have questions or feedback, feel free to leave them in the comments. Read More…

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Why You Should Spend the Extra Time to Write Drupal Update Scripts

by , Web Developer

Drupal update scripts are a great way of automating database updates. They are extremely important to contributed modules when changing the database schema and updating existing data to the new schema. Specifically I will be discussing using update scripts in your custom modules as part of deploying new features. I'm not saying update scripts should replace using the Features module, in fact I use them together, update scripts are great for things that might not be managed in features. This will be the first in a two-part series that will cover using Drupal update scripts. Read More…

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Another reason why developing for Drupal is more welcoming than WordPress

by , Web Developer

I think we've all heard a few things about how Drupal and WordPress compare to each other. One thing I haven't heard much about is the "please contribute, here's how" factor to Drupal and its modules and the lack of it in the WordPress community. This can be seen in the site for Drupal modules and the site hosting WordPress modules. Read More…

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Global Drupal Training day is today!

by , Marketing Strategist

Global Drupal Training Day Today is Global Drupal Training Day! While Metal Toad wasn't able to participate with a local classroom event (our offices are in the final phase of reconstruction.. look out for the blog post on this soon!), we have a lot of talented Drupal experts that have been sharing their knowledge on our blog right here. We love open source software and give back to Drupal anytime we can. If you are new to Drupal, you can dive right into our Drupal knowledge base, or check out a few articles here: Read More…

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