How-To and Documentation

Jun
13

Making Drupal Admin UI feel a little like Wordpress

Sun, 13/06/2010 - 16:14 — admin
drupal Admin UI

Recently, i've had a few requests from design companies asking how they can make Drupal Admin UI feel a little like Wordpress because a lot of their clients have become accustom to using Wordpress admin UI and is comfortable with administering their site with a separation of the front and backend. However, these design companies are trying to move away from Wordpress and offer Drupal as a long term solution. Furthermore, the design companies didn't want me to spend a lot of time customizing Drupal so that the admin UI is a bit more like Wordpress. read more »

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Mar
20

Making CSS position:fixed work on IE6

Sat, 20/03/2010 - 02:23 — admin

One of the things that i had to do earlier for a client's site was to add a feedback button which link to a feedback form. It was to sit on the far left of the page and about 270px away from the top which had to be in a fixed position (not scroll along with the page). This was easily achieved in all browsers using CSS position:fixed read more »

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Nov
25

OSMOBI tutorial - Making Drupal or Joomla sites mobile

Wed, 25/11/2009 - 03:48 — admin

Osmobi makes any Drupal or Joomla site mobile. Osmobi is powered by the open source platform Siruna.

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Oct
13

Installing uploadprogress on MAMP

Tue, 13/10/2009 - 19:56 — admin

When you use Drupal imagefield or filefield module, you'll have noticed that it uses uploadprogress to show a nifty progress bar. This is optional but it's a nice thing to have and it's actually not that difficult to install. Just follow this article: http://smbjorklund.no/how-enable-pecl-uploadprogress-extention-mamp

UPDATE:

Here is the extension that has been precomplied so you can just simply drop it into your folder and activate it. The zip file contains uploadprogress.so and zip.so (so you can use zip extension files).

Download: extension.zip

Unzip the file and place both *.so file into directory: /MAMP/bin/php5/lib/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/

Then add this line:

extension=uploadprogress.so
extension=zip.so

to your php.ini file which can be found at /MAMP/Config/php5/

Make sure you restart your web server.

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Sep
09

Drupal security checklist

Wed, 09/09/2009 - 15:22 — admin

As Drupal comes ever more popular, it will inevitable become more visible and targeted by hackers. We have seen it happen with other popular open source projects like Wordpress and Joomla. There'll always be a threat to security whether it be open source or proprietary CMS (closed source). Therefore, precautions should be taken to prevent and secure your site as much as possible. read more »

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Sep
08

Setting up virtual host on local machine running MAMP 1.8.2

Tue, 08/09/2009 - 23:15 — admin
MAMP 1.8.2

MAMP 1.8.2 has been released and all is looking good. So what's been updated in this package:

  • compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Apache 2.0.63
  • MySQL 5.1.37
  • PHP 4.4.9 & 5.2.10
  • APC 3.0.19 & APC 3.1.2
  • eAccelerator 0.9.5.3
  • XCache 1.2.2
  • phpMyAdmin 2.11.9.5 & phpMyAdmin 3.2.0.1
  • Zend Optimizer 3.3.3

The rest of the info can be found here: Version History (MAMP) read more »

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Sep
04

Screencast 1 and 2 on using Drush 2.0

Fri, 04/09/2009 - 12:18 — duvien
Drush 2.0

For those of you that prefer using a command line to get the job done quicker (because it is generally faster than clicking around a GUI), you love Drush.

Drush is a command utility module for Drupal that allow a site admin to execute commands in a terminal window. Here is an excellent screencast by Owen Barton showing you how to use Drush.

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Jul
18

Setting up virtual host on local machine running MAMP 1.7.2

Sat, 18/07/2009 - 00:30 — admin
virtual-host

When your working on a development site, it's always best to mirror your production site. In most cases production site is always going to be installed in the webroot (root directory on your web hosting server). But how do we mirror this setup for MAMP running on a local machine if your development sites all lives under one directory where the sites are being served up by Apache web server? read more »

Jul
03

Some useful tips when developing a Drupal 6 site

Fri, 03/07/2009 - 02:46 — duvien

Some of these following useful tips are probably what you already know if you have been spending some time building Drupal sites. But these hints and tips that have certainly been very useful to me and i hope you'll feel the same. read more »

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