Drupal’s theming system gives designers complete control over how a site’s content is rendered for a web browser, and custom themes can give any site a distinctive look. But sometimes it’s useful to make minor tweaks to a site’s appearance using nothing but CSS rules. They allow designers to tweak font sizes, colors, and so on without altering the underlying HTML that defines the site’s structure. In this lesson we'll look at:
- CSS Injector module
- Explain how this works
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Although our “Product review” content type has all of the data we need, the individual reviews still look a bit untidy. In this lesson, we’ll do some final tweaking to make the review display look nice and tidy.
- Setting Field Display Options
- Configuring CSS Injector
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Now that we have a few products, we really ought to add a listing page that lets visitors look over all of the products that have been reviewed, comparing official ratings with visitor ratings and sorting by various criteria. This is a perfect job for Views. In this lesson:
- Create a Product Finder view
- Display Amazon information
- Display voting results
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Now that you’ve manually created a new variant for your front page, this lesson will teach you a much faster way to duplicate an existing variant. This technique is useful if your variants are very similar to one another.
Panels and the Page manager module allow you to create different versions of the same page (called variants) under different circumstances. In this lesson you will learn how to build two different versions of the content on your home page. People who are logged in to your site will see a different home page than people who are not.
Drupal would like to assume that every page on your website will use the same layout. As it turns out, this is often not the case. The home page of your site, in particular, regularly uses a different layout. In this lesson we will demonstrate how you can use Panels to build a unique home page layout for your site.
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In this lesson we bring everything we have learned in this series and just round it out with some tips and tricks now that we have images in our content.
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In this lesson we go a little deeper on working with Text Formats and having the ability to create different WYSIWYG editor situations for different users/roles. We also go over the process of using and editor and best practices when doing so.
In this lesson we cover the IMCE Module and utilizing it to get images into your content. We cover the configurations that are unique to this module such as user upload paths and different per role restrictions when it comes to uploading images. We discuss how this module integrates perfectly with your editors "Image" button and creates a pretty easy work flow for the average web user.
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In this lesson we cover using the Media Module and how it works for both methods of getting images into your content. The Media Module has the ability to be a widget for the image field or a button inside your editor. We discuss the pros and cons of these methods and you could get the best out of both with just a little tip.
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Display Suite for Drupal 7
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This lesson covers all the updates/differences in the latest 2.x version versus other Drupal 7 releases. The new 2.x version of Display Suite is still in active development at the time that this video was published, but we want to make sure you know the changes that are coming when the new version is finally released. This video is very important to view if you are using Display Suite version 2 for the first time and have watched other videos in this series. It covers UI changes/updates as well as feature differences.
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In this lesson we cover how all over the configurations we have learned using Display Suite are able to be exported to code. This video shows how to do this using CTool but can also be done with Features as well.
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In this lesson we cover another "extra" of Display Suite, Views Displays. This basically allows you to take over a view template file and use Display Suite to layout your views.
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In this lesson we cover several extra options provided by the included "Extras" module with display suite. We will show how turning on the Contextual Links extra makes it easier to edit a layout when viewing an entity that is using it. We also look at the Page Title extra that allows you to hide/show the title for a particular layout. Finally we discuss a very powerful feature that allows you to have an option of an end user to select between different view modes.
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Region to Block
FreeIn this lesson we learn how you can take a display region and create a block out of it to be placed in Drupal core's block system.
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In this lesson we cover using the search display portion of Display Suite. This allows you to have a custom layout for your search results as well as your user search results. Display Suite offers lots of functionality here that you just can't get with a core configuration of search.
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Display Suite Fields
FreeIn this lesson we cover adding different type of custom fields to your layout using Display Suite. From adding a custom code field, blocks, to dynamic fields, each of these can be moved around your layout and replicated/modified across different display modes.
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In this lesson Joe Shindelar covers all aspects of Organic Groups and access control. He describes how Drupal's access API allows for Organic Groups to function in such a way that certain groups and/or pieces of content can be hidden from users that don't have access to it. He demonstrates how you can add fields to groups and/or content types to have fine control over this access control on an individual basis versus the defaults. He also demonstrates how you can switch this control at any time to give a user access to content they may not have had access to at time of publication.