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In this series, we are going to cover two modules that assist in laying out content when building your Drupal website: Context and Bean. We will cover advantages, disadvantages, and differences between Context, Bean, and Drupal core as a standalone product.  Drupal works on what is called a "block system" that allows site builders and content creators to layout portions of their content into different areas (regions) of a given page.

Ready to get up to speed on current PHP tools and techniques? This week we're excited to provide to our wonderful members more new PHP videos from our partners over at KnpUniversity, a leading provider of PHP and Symfony video tutorials. All of this week's tutorials are also completely FREE!

It is claimed that "every HTML table in Drupal 8 is responsive." What this actually means is that tables in the Drupal 8 admin UI are responsive and also that in Views, if you select a Table format, you have the opportunity to prioritize columns that will hide upon reaching narrower breakpoints. The strategy that is employed is that of adding "priority" classes to table cells and a "responsive-enabled" class to the table tag. At a tablet breakpoint, the "priority-low" table columns will hide and at the mobile breakpoint, the "priority-medium" columns will also not display.

You want to learn HTML and CSS, or maybe you just need a refresher on the current state of web technology—where should you start? This is a question we get asked a lot at Drupalize.Me. Our theming and module development videos often assume that you're familiar with basic HTML and CSS, so here is a list of our favorite resources.

Drupalize.Me is looking for a Drupal trainer and developer to join our team.

We're delighted to release another installment of PHP for Beginners videos from our amazing partners over at KnpUniversity. In these video tutorials, you'll learn all about HTTP responses and requests and step-by-step, how to process a form using php and JSON. Leanna takes you under the hood of a web page, showing you what information is being passed along and how you can make use of it in your PHP script.

Recently, the biggest piece of news in the Drupal 8 world is that we are finally down to just one beta-blocker. This is really great, but what does it mean exactly? Well, in the big picture it means that we are very close to releasing a beta version of Drupal 8 for everyone to start playing with, and this is a major step towards getting the final release out the door.

This week we're releasing a new series entirely devoted to using the Drupal 7 Token API. This series covers everything you need to know about creating, exposing, and using tokens in your Drupal modules. Since tokens can be a bit confusing, we kick things off with a presentation that covers what tokens are, some history, what problems tokens solve, and the token syntax. This is followed by the Drupal 7 Tokens Site Setup lesson that walks through the specific use-case that we'll be solving for in this series and a demonstration of the end result so that if you're following along you'll know where we're headed.

Plugins play an important role in Drupal 8, and understanding how the entire plugin system works will help us better understand how, when, where, and why we use plugins.

In this week's podcast, episode 47: Drupal as a Services Platform, we discuss as all things web services, REST, and headless Drupal. The next issue of Drupal Watchdog features articles about Drupal as a Services Platform. Several authors in the issue and the executive editor will be sharing various perspectives on web services in Drupal and in the wider world. With hostess Amber Himes Matz and her guests Peta Hoyes, Scott Hooker, Lin Clark, and Larry Garfield.