Web Development

I was using Omega and needed to make Youtube embeds be responsive to match my responsive design (without installing any module) and have them resize correctly along with the rest of my content. After some Googling and research, I came up with this solution.

The trick from WebDesignerWall is very simple. You need to wrap the embed code with a

While doing a Drupal 6 to 7 upgrade for a web project, I was wondering if there was a way to upgrade my imagecache presets to Drupal 7 image styles. Image styles in Drupal 7 are the equivalent of Imagecache presets in Drupal 6. I found out that you can do it via Features or finding another solution (the one posted by Drupal user Vladimir). Here's how I migrated my Drupal 6 imagecache presets to D7 image styles. Create file in "Drupal_ROOT" and paste the following code: 

You can disable comments from your content types admin by editing the content type on which you want to disable comments.
Go to admin/content/types, In the Comment settings section, set Default comments setting to Disabled. Save the content type. You are done! But, this will only change new posts, what for the existing posts? You have to change them manually by editing each node. It can be a bind.
We are going to do it via SQL snippets which I've tested on Drupal 7 and should work for Drupal 6 as well (in my case I have a content type 'quotation'):



There are many ways on how to show your recent tweets in Drupal sites. I am going to show you two methods to achieve this.

Custom code
Using the following code in a custom block. Working for both Drupal 6 and 7.

A known issue in Drupal 6 where cache_form table isn't cleared when the items are expired. This causes cache_form to grow without an end. Solution?

In phpMyAdmin, truncate the cache_form table using the following query:

This issue is fixed in drupal 7.

Voilà !

This post focused on elements relating to design, content and development. This time, we’ll move onto the important issue of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

SEO is such a hot topic these days. How do you get your web site within the first page or two of the search engines? How do you increase your Google page rank?

There are companies who dedicate themselves full time to doing SEO at a pretty penny. Something a lot of people can’t necessarily afford to pay for or spend the time on.

This post covers essential resources related to Drupal — the basics, modules, Drupal design inspiration, Drupal themes, tutorials, starter themes, blog editors and Drupal-projects.

1. The Basics

Just getting started with Drupal? Looking for some general resources to have bookmarked for when you need them? These resources will help you cover the basics of Drupal and provide documentation for much of your future work with the platform.

Drupal.org
The Drupal home page and location for downloading the latest version.