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Creating a Google Maps/Amazon.com/Banned Books Mashup

Part One of God Only Knows How Many Steps...

Dec 27, 2007
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Submitted By: Justin Stanley
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And now for something completely different…

Sorry to disappoint all the little nerdlings who come around here only for the Drupal goods, but today’s post won’t be at all related to our favorite CMS.  We’ve talked about different Drupaly topics for weeks, now it’s time to shake things up a little.  Today, kids, we’re going to make a basic Google Maps mashup.

Yeah, I know.  The world needs another Google Maps mashup like I need a hole in my head, right?  Who cares.  They’re fun, and we’ll try to make our s...

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Simplemenu Module Customizations

Making a great Drupal admin menu better

Nov 01, 2007
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Submitted By: Jeremy Caldwell
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I'm a big fan of the Simplemenu module for Drupal as it's quite a time-saver when developing a site. It's really handy to have the entire admin menu right at the top of each page.

Clients also love it for it's ease of use and they don't have to navigate to "/admin" everytime they log in and want to make a change to the site. Now they can just hover over the option the want on the top navigation bar accross their browser and drill down to the specific page they want. Very handy and much quicker than manually drilling down to each page. It's been a real time-saver for me so f...

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Drupal Theming

A standards approach to custom Drupal theme creation

Sep 10, 2007
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Submitted By: Jeremy Caldwell
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After working with Drupal for over a year now I have learned many different ways to go about creating a custom Drupal theme. I have tried taking existing Drupal themes such as Garland and Blue Marine and hacking them to pieces while inserting my DIVs and classes trying to get things to work and look right. That just creates a huge mess of code and often contains unneeded elements (code bloat = not a good thing).

I've found that the best method for me to create custom Drupal themes is to first code up the site using static HTML/CSS, as in create an index.html file and go to town. I al...

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