Alexander on Web Development

The Interaction Design Association or IXDA for short, is a professional network of more than 15,000 members and 80 local groups around the world. IXDA was founded in 2003 and provides an online forum for the discussion of interaction design issues. Their redesign was performed by Growing Venture Solutions, one of United States most respected Drupal consulting firms.

I found this video on http://www.nicklewis.org/

After a more than a couple 24 hour coding marathons today I am very proud to announce that Dialogo Digital (http://dialogodigital.com, #EditoresDialogo) launched it's redesign to the public. The modern design was conceived and created by web designer Joel Martínez of String Puerto Rico (http://stringpr.com/) in late September 2009. It took me around 8 weeks to convert Joel's standards compliant XHTML into a full Drupal theme.

Three main templates were developed: one for the front page, one for the news sections, and one for the news articles.

PG Engineering Solutions (http://pges.net), a Puerto Rico based Engineering firm in charge of developing projects such as the San Juan, Puerto Rico Urban Train is now using Drupal for it's web site.

I built this site in only one week using a vanilla Drupal 6 distribution (http://drupal.org/drupal-6.15). A premium theme from TopNotchThemes (http://www.topnotchthemes.com) was used in order to reduce both development time and cost.

I need to construct a newsticker for Diálogo Digital. We have been re-redesigning our news site for about 8 weeks now (except for the web designer that prepared the plain HTML/CSS files) I am alone. Initially I felt inclined to use a community provided (contrib) module, but here were my options:

• http://drupal.org/project/newsticker It is built for Drupal 6, uses JQuery's serialscroll plugin, outputs the newsticker into a block. Does not use Drupal's node system.

• http://drupal.org/project/views_ticker Built for Drupal 5 only, so it wasn't really an option.

Károly, or better know on the #Drupal community as "Chx", is a renowned drupaler who writes for http://drupal4hu.com and can be almost always be found giving support to fellow community members at the #drupal IRC channel.

He has contributed many #drupal patches, and on this video, he enlightens us of the upcoming Drupal 7 API architecture, very important:

So you are using the devel module to see what preprocessing and #theming functions are getting called in the page-taxonomy.tpl.php pages in your #Drupal installation (hereafter simply referred to as taxonomy pages). Are you wondering who is generating all that stuff inside the $content variable? Why can't you get an array of $node objects, just like when you get a single $node object when viewing each individual node page?

[inline:devel_page_taxonomy.PNG=page-taxonomy.tpl.php $content variable viewed with the devel module]

By: Davy Van Den Bremt of www.drupalcoder.com

Aegir is a set of Drupal modules that helps you maintain your Drupal sites.
It does this by providing you with a simple Drupal based hosting front end for your entire network of sites. To deploy a new site you simply have to create a new Site node. To backup or upgrade sites, you simply manage your site nodes as you would any other node.

In Norse mythology, Ægir was the god of the oceans and if Drupal is a drop of water, Ægir is the deity of large bodies of water.