Back in the day, you could make a website with a single page of code. Technically you still can, but it would either be extremely simple for today's standards, or a big confusing mess. It's interesting to note that even then, this single file would most likely be called "index.html" and would work...
Before my time at CP, our site was going to get re-themed and the team looked to upgrade the site to Drupal 7, which was still in development at the time, but ultimately left it in Drupal 6. One of the major reasons for not upgrading was lack of support for Nodereference in Drupal 7.
Now that...
The long-awaited launch of Drupal 7 was finally announced early this morning. Everyone in the Drupal world is excited about what promises to be the most user-friendly, and most capable, version of Drupal yet. With three full years since the launch of Drupal 6 to improve the CMS, creator Dries...
For most Drupal configurations, it is advisable to use exporting functionality. In addition to facilitating version control and code duplication, this method offers more direct control over the node's settings, fields, etc.
Recently I tried to export the code of an ImageCache preset, but found...
The Site Map module in Drupal automatically generates a site map page for your site (not to be confused with an XML site map). By default, the Site Map module creates one list of links, but if you have a complex site, this can be a really long list.
When this issue came up on a client's site...
Two highly anticipated CMS releases, Drupal 7.x and WordPress 3.x, are both set to appear in the next month or two. Drupal 7 is currently in Alpha release, but is aiming for a Beta release later this month. WordPress is a little bit ahead, having published a Release Candidate on May 28th. In light...
Signwriter is an excellent Drupal module that "allows you to use TrueType fonts to replace text in headings, blocks, menus and filtered text. It does this by replacing text with an image generated from a TrueType font file which you provide."
One of the neat things you can use this module for is to...
I presented on the Drupal CMS Multi-Site at CMS Expo in Chicago, and I wanted to share some of what I spoke about in the blog.
Why Use Multi-Site?
Multi-site technology has been around for a few years now. A multi-site is when one code base manages multiple websites. We were doing multilingual...
I was excited to attend CMS Expo in Chicago May 3-5 because it was a great opportunity to catch up on the buzz of Drupal, Joomla, WordPress and Plone. eZ Publish, Hippo and Alfresco were also in attendance. CMS Expo originally began as a Joomla user group, but there was such a demand to compare...
CommonPlaces is proud to be a sponsor of the first DrupalCamp in New Hampshire. We are even more proud that our own Michelle Lauer has led the way in organizing and planning this event.
DrupalCamp NH is being held on May 22nd at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester. Tickets sold out in...
