Dec 2023
When we was implementing a customer relationship management for a local client using Drupal, we faced this challege:
- The client wanted to manage records of his patients with many treatment images captured by his iPhone
- Each iPhone images can be large, 5 to 10MB depending on resolutions
- While we can't hold so many large images to the web server, the disk space will soon run out
So we have to find a way to resize and compress images quality on the client side before uploading so they won't place burdens to the web server.
After googling around, we found a tip on this thread mentioning DropzoneJs. So w...
Sep 2023
On our directory theme BizReview showing listings and their reviews, we need a rating mechanism so users can leave their votes on comments and the parent listings will calculate average ratings.
We believe this rating mechanism is popular among listing and shopping websites, so we wrote a tutorial for setting it up on Drupal 9 (and probably Drupal 10).
The good news is this kind of setup is quite straightforward in Drupal using Fivestar module.
1. Install Fivestar and its...
Aug 2021
On our theme BizReview and Listiry, now available in Drupal 9, we have to solve the common problem with displaying nodes on maps.
Here are what we have used in our themes and have verified it is working. Please see the result as below:
Now please follow our tutorial on how to display maps on Drupal with Geofield, Address and Geocoder modules:
1. Install Drupal and Geofield
Install Drupal core:
composer create-project drupal/recommended-project my_site_name_dir cd my_site_name_dir
Install...
Apr 2021
Slideshow is one of the most essential part of any Drupal websites. It is basically the first thing that attracts your eyes when you visit a website. It is large enough and it has many cool transition effects that you can't help take a look at it. Having a long time working with Drupal, I collect and present in this article some of the best Drupal slideshow modules.
There are alot of Drupal slideshow modules, however, I only pick the modules which are in high usage, under active development and support Drupal 7. I downloaded and tested them all to see what are pros and cons of each module.
Now these are best Drupal slideshow modules in my opinion:
1. PhotoSwipe
In the mobile first trend nowadays, being responsive is not the favorable. When we developed a local project named Ecoparker and found out 70% traffic is from mobiles.
It requires us to choose a slider module that must be mobile friendly.
PhotoSwipe is the answer, it is very fast, excellent UX on mobiles and s...
Dec 2020
On a local project with the business directory site Ecoparker, we experienced the struggle of displaying a long list of products in small display screens ie mobiles.
On this particular landing page, showcasing Solforest a vertical forest real estate project, we need to present 10 types of apartments in two categories with sizes and selling prices.
On another page, we have 6 categories, each category has more than 10 products. If we just display them all o...
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