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Release Day: Site Building with Blocks and Themes

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Addison Berry

This Wednesday we are continuing our Site Building series with some videos that cover changing how your site looks. We dive in to the world of themes, regions, and blocks, which not only change the look of your site, but let you control some steady bits of content should be and when they should appear. The new videos are:

More Site Building: Content, Taxonomy, Views, and Menus

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Addison Berry

Today we're continuing our Site Building with Drupal 7 series by looking at some of the major building blocks for putting a site together. Once you have a site installed, and you have the hang of adding contributed modules, you need to get into the site and start playing with the pieces. The newest videos in the series are:

Site Improvements with Our Latest Sprint: Sparkleworks

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Addison Berry

In our latest sprint -- Sparkleworks -- we sprinkled some magic pony dust (and also wrote a little code) to make more improvements to the Drupalize.Me site. The two main improvements we made for this release have been popular member requests; we've added a listing of your entire video history, and we've added newest and most popular video lists. Today we also have a new video for our Wednesday release day, Tips for writing secure code.

Release Day: Configuring Your Ubuntu Web Server

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Addison Berry

To round out our local development web server videos, we've added a companion video to the recent Installing a web server on Ubuntu. In Ubuntu web server configuration we learn how to configure the various pieces of our local development web server. We'll get clean URLs working by enabling the Apache rewrite module, and increase various settings for MySQL and PHP.

Release Day: Set up a Local Web Server on Ubuntu

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Addison Berry

Following on last week's videos about setting up local development web servers on Windows and Mac, we also have one for Ubuntu: Installing a web server on Ubuntu. This video is not explaining how to set up a big, beefy web server where you would host your real website. This video is just like the Mac and Windows ones, in that it helps you get your own personal web server on your desktop or laptop, to use for development and playing around with things.

Release Day: Module Development Looks at Databases

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Addison Berry

Happy New Year! The Module Development series is wrapping up by working our way through another major API in Drupal, the database layer. We have five videos to walk you through it.

Release Day: More Module Development

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Addison Berry

For this Wednesday, we're adding more videos to the Module Development for Drupal 7 series. We have three new videos for you:

  • Altering forms with hook_form_alter introduces you to one of the most used hooks in Drupal development. It lets you change any form in Drupal and is a great tool in your kit.

Release Day: Form Api, Theme Functions, and More Drush

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Addison Berry

It's that time of the week again! This week we are continuing two of our series: Module Development for Drupal 7 and Introduction to Drush.

For the Module Development series, we are wrapping up the discussion of the Render API with a look at integrating with the theme system. Then we move on to four videos about the Form API system and how to do some fun things with it:

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