This week, we're finishing up our Using Drupal, Chapter 4 series, which covers media management with Media 2. We finish off our site by adding the ability to embed YouTube videos on the site very easily.

During the recent Drupalize.Me site upgrade, we removed the ability to put temporary holds on memberships with an automatic billing reactivation. (Curiously, this functionally created more problems than it ever solved; lesson learned!) Now, we're giving you control by having you cancel your billing, and reactivate it when you are ready.  If you wish to stop your membership for any length of time, simply cancel billing via your account dashboard.

We're super excited to release a new series this week, which has been a highly requested one on our suggestion list: PSD to Drupal Theme. This series walks you through the process of converting a static design into a Drupal theme. We'll be covering strategies for breaking down your design into Drupal pieces, extracting your design assets, and working with those components in your CSS. Along the way you're going to also be introduced to grid frameworks, Sass, and other very helpful general web development tools. At the end you will have a theme that you can install and enable on your Drupal site. Having a little bit of Drupal site building experience, and a little bit of Web experience (HTML and CSS) will be helpful but it's not required, so if you find the world of Drupal themes mysterious, this is a great series to clear the fog.

In 2008 I started on my big Drupal theming adventure by co-authoring Front End Drupal with Konstantin Käfer. Since that time thousands of people have learned Drupal theming through this book, and my presentations and workshops.

A funny thing happened last week. On Wednesday, we performed our weekly code deployment and released a handful of new features/bug fixes to the site. And then, about an hour later, someone on the team found this:

Drupal 8 is coming in 2014. There is a lot of work to do and a lot to learn. We've decided to dedicate a minimum of five hours per week towards Drupal 8 for each person on the Drupalize.Me team.

This week we're chugging along with our PSD to Drupal Theme series, with a look at getting our CSS system setup and figuring out our Drupal elements for theming.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been meaning to get involved with Drupal 8 for quite some time now. But where to start? What’s left to be done? How do I find tasks that match my skills? Enter Core contribution mentoring.

This week, we continue the journey from PSD to Drupal Theme as Emma Jane Westby shows us how to prepare a Drupal site for our theme by generating sample content, customizing image styles, creating and placing blocks, and creating a useful

Welcome to 2014! We're delighted to see you on this side of the calendar.

Our winter elves* have not taken a break and have continued to crank out improvements to the Drupalize.Me platform. This week's release includes fixes identified in over a dozen tickets. A few of our favorites are highlighted below.

One of the Drupal 8 initiatives that really excites me is Web Services. Drupal has never been easy to work with as a web service, but all that is about to change! In this article I am going to explore what has been going on behind the scenes with RESTful Web Services in Drupal Core and attempt to implement some working examples. After reading, you will be able to create a new node on your site via the Drupal 8 Core REST API.

This week in our PSD to Theme series we are getting into the nitty-gritty and creating our new theme in Drupal. We start off by getting the .info file set up properly and then add our style guide stubs to work with.

Back in June, I wrote up a little blog post with some tips for getting a developer environment setup. Recently, I've been working on a new learning series and set up Vagrant for local development. Both experiences left me thinking "Ugh!" It requires so much work just to start working! For a developer, this is time well spent. But not everyone who works with Drupal is a developer. In fact, the list of non-developers whom might want to peek at Drupal is longer than you might originally think. Sound familiar? Read on if you're interested in taking a peek at Drupal 8 without the setup overhead. I've got just the tool you've been looking for.

This week we wrap up the new theme we've created in the PSD to Drupal Theme series by getting it installed and enabled on our site.

Over the holidays, we welcomed Amber Himes and Joe Fender to the team. They hit the ground running and have already made substantial contributions. Drupalize.Me now has eight full-time staff, all of whom are working tirelessly to build and maintain the biggest and best Drupal training service on the planet!

Today we finally completed the migration to our new billing service! It's been a long road, and I'll leave the gorey details for another post. The short of it is that we moved to Recurly and account management is now easier for our members.

This week we have podcast episode 33. It's all about Global Sprint Days, coming up next weekend, on January 25-26, 2014. We talk about what sprints are, what's happening next weekend, and the why/how of getting involved. Go give it a listen, and then sign up for (or create) a local event!