Focus on enhancing Drupal's usability rather than just scalability to attract more designers and non-developers, making it an intuitive and enjoyable...
If you've got some technical expertise and you're looking to increase your blog traffic stick to this winning formula: the "How to". A successful how...
Quick tips for Drupal developers on views exposed filters, taxonomy term order, and optimizing CDN caching with F5 load balancers. Enhance your...
I'd like to take a moment and recognize the accomplishments of my team.
Continuing on with the previous topic of essentially “what is Drupal?” we move on to the discussion of PHP and its importance in being able to build...
Learn why using mainstream payment gateways like Authorize.net or Paypal is crucial for secure ecommerce with Drupal's Ubercart. Avoid pitfalls...
Metal Toad sponsors Drupal Design Camp Boston 2010 to bridge gaps in the design community and enhance Drupal's usability, fostering collaboration and...
Like any good Gen-Y-er, knowing I would be starting a job at a web development company that specialized in Drupal technology, my first step was to...
If you are in the market for Drupal development, you may feel like you are trying to pick a car mechanic without knowing anything about cars. Like...
I was trolling around the Internet today looking for drupal hosting benchmarks and I actually had a little trouble finding something current.
Learn how to programmatically change the content-type meta tag in Drupal 6 and 7 themes, enhancing your site's HTML5 compliance.
When Webchick announced that Drupal was moving to Git at Drupalcon, our office erupted in pleasure at the news. Lots of great Drupalists are already...
Every conference is better with events, but finding them can be such a pain when you're trying to absorb all the info in the seminars.
A previous post described how to reposition node comments with Drupal's hook_menu_alter(), to facilitate a tabbed interface. One side effect that...
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When discussing the benefits of open-source frameworks (especially Drupal), I've often heard, "But if everyone has access to the source code, how...
Here's a tiny shopping cart block for Ubercart that fits right in with the menu. Of course the standard block could be themed this way, but this is...
If you haven't already heard of it, the Theme Developer is a great tool. It works like firebug, but for Drupal.
When you first start creating a Drupal theme, you might be frustrated by the large number of stylesheets that are included by default in your theme...
If you've ever worked with a rich data model in drupal you know it can be a pain to load up all the children and parents of a node within the...
So there we were, facing a Flash based video player that could have multiple tabs of many videos apiece.
During the theming process for the Emmys, specifically Emmys.com and Emmys.tv, we were presented with 2 differently styled marquees. On Emmys.com,...
Performance benchmarks for Drupal caching solutions reveal Boost as the top choice for small sites, emphasizing the importance of efficient cache...
By default, Ubercart sets the breadcrumb on the checkout page to simply "Home", which I personally find a bit odd. Because it calls...
A lot of what's written about performance tuning for Drupal is focused on large sites, and benchmarking is often done by requesting the same page...