Oct 2012
This is another helpful guest post from OSTraining. The topic today is how to disable broken Drupal themes and modules.
It's happened to all of us who use Drupal. We've installed a new theme or module and our beautiful homepage now looks like this:
Here are ways you can try to solve this problem and get your site back online.
These solutions are a good place to start but none of them will work for everyone. The right solution for your site will depend on which version of Drupal you're using, what modules and themes you have installed and which part of the site is broken.
Solution 1: Disable via the admin
You can try to visit the admin area directly by using URLs. For example, you could try to add /admin/ to your site's URL.
If t...
Oct 2012
This is a guest blog post from Richard Larson and it may contain promotional items.
Drupal is in a word AMAZING. Well let's make that several words. AMAZING, STUPENDOUS, the best thing since sliced BREAD (and we all love turkey sandwiches except when all the little turkey bits end up in the keyboard.) The crazy thing is that the average website owner or blogger doesn't know as much about Drupal as they should.
Now this is something that needs to change. Drupal is one of the most sophisticated content management frameworks around and the best part is that the end user of Drupal themes doesn't need any programming skills to install or administer Drupal. Drupal is easy to use and sophisticated. Now this is such an easy sell.
Here are some quick ideas on how to sell Drupal and help get the word out!
Promotional Items: Turning mere T-shirts into Dynamic Drupal Duds
Promotional products are still one of the cheapest and best ways to create brand awareness. Promotional items these days include everything from T-shirts to USB drives sporting your logo. Mouse pads, pens, coffee mugs, computer bags, the list of great promotional items is endless. The best part about promotional p...
Oct 2012
This is the guest post from OSTraining. OSTraining is a well known company which provides online training, classroom training and onsite training for Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress. I find it is very helpful to feature posts from OSTraining on Drupal tutorials on our blog. The topic today is "Adding a Weather block to your Drupal site".
One of our students is building a local tourism website. They wanted to show the local weather on the site but without any of the big, ugly branding that often accompanies weather displays.
In this tutorial, we'll show you how to use the Weather module to create a local weather block.
The Weather module works great, but it can be confusing to configure. This tutorial will walk you the set up from installation to publication.
Installation
- Go to http://drupal.org/project/weather.
- Download, install and enable the Weather module.
Configuration
- Click on Configuration
- Locate Weather in the User Interface block and click on...
Mar 2012
Last week many of our theme demonstration sites were not working. Users only saw a blank screen with "Fatal error" or "Warning messages". Thanks Hennie who reminded me about this issue.
The reason was our mistake when carrying out the Drupal update process. After update the Drupal core with the latest package Drupal 7.12, we forgot to run the /update.php script. That is quite amateur I know, sorry about that.
When you use our themes, we have include the Drupal core and contributed modules with our packages. When Drupal and those modules release new versions, you will need to update them. So I think it is good to provide a guideline for updating Drupal and Drupal modules because you will be frequently using it.
1. Backup
First, backup your Drupal site. Play it safe. If anything goes wrong, you do not lose anything.
- Backup database: We include the backup_migrate module with the installation profile so it will be out-of-the-box for use. Just go to /admin/config/system/backup_migrate and hit "Backup now". ...
Jan 2012
This is a repost from Tuthanh's blog, the founder of Symphony Themes. The original article is available at: http://tuthanh.com/blog/be-proud-when-you-are-small
What do you think when your team is down from 10+ to 2? Move from a 100m2 office full of office equipments to a 20m2 simple one?
I started the 2011 year with a large office, a team of 10 staffs including developers, designers and an accountant, chasing a dream of becoming a large technology company with different cool products. After a year, I have 2 permanent staffs including me, moved to a much smaller office and focus on one or two projects only.
Many people call it a setback. I call it an advantage.
In these recent weeks, I still wonder can I continue this stuff for long. In everybody's mind, you look great when you have more people. When people ask you about your company size, I reply "20-30 staffs", they often say "Wow, great". Now I say "2 staffs", they say something to show their politeness.
And when I read the 37signal's book "Rework", it eases my mind. It said:
"Don't be insecure about aiming to be a small business. Anyone who runs a business that's sustainable and profitable, whether it's big or small, should be proud."
Yes, why...
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