The Humans Behind Your Drupal Website

Last Updated on Saturday, 8 June 2013 10:27 Written by David Gurba Monday, 10 June 2013 12:00

As a web developer going on 10 years now. I’ve inherited and handed-off a number of completed websites in my day. While developing and releasing a website often times we overlook providing documentation listing out the Modules, Libraries, Service Providers, Designers, Developers and Tools used in creating a website.

Useful Drupal Module: Rabbit Hole

Last Updated on Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:50 Written by David Gurba Thursday, 6 June 2013 12:00

Often times in a website requires easy content creation workflows. In addition to Articles, Pages or News Posts sometimes a site requires for instance:

1. Uploading and maintain a list of images and teaser text for a jQuery SlideDeck or Slideshow.

2. Provide some tag references for allowable dates: Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Winter 2014; for display use with annual events.

Simple Site-Wide Status Message to All Visitors

Last Updated on Friday, 31 May 2013 09:57 Written by David Gurba Sunday, 2 June 2013 12:00

There are many modules to customize status messages on a Drupal website. Such messages could inform your users of scheduled maintenance downtime or other relevant notices you want any user to see when they visit your website. I suggest you consult this community comparison on drupal status message modules.

If these are too heavyweight for you there is a very simple solution. In your theme’s template.php file add the following line of code anywhere in YOURTHEME/template.php:

Install Drush on Arvixe

Last Updated on Thursday, 30 May 2013 11:14 Written by David Gurba Thursday, 30 May 2013 12:00

Developing and Administering a Drupal website can be tedious with so many module, permission choices and configuration values.

Drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal. Drush allows you the website developer or administrator to easily download, enable, disable, uninstall, and update modules/themes/profiles/translations using an interactive shell in a familiar Linux package management style. For instance you can `drush dl views` and then `drush en views` in a Drupal webroot to install the Views project. Or, you can update your entire site and its Drupal related dependencies with `drush pm-update`.

Drupal 7 Overridding HTML Output Based on URL Conditions

Last Updated on Friday, 24 May 2013 01:39 Written by David Gurba Saturday, 25 May 2013 12:00

Drupal 7 supports downloadable sitewide themes. Sometimes we want a specific site path to exclude many regions of a site and present only the page content. Or for instance if a remote site is fetching the page contents and embedding it in their site, we would not want to show all the banners, sidebars etc on the page. In the below example a client website can request any page of the website with an additional url parameter &remoteembed and the page output will be stripped of banners, header, footer and sidebars for remote embedding into another website.