Displaying your Drupal Mission Statement on Multiple Pages

Posted by jocelyn September 27 '09

While many sites don't need to utilize a mission statement, it can be useful for adding static content to your theme.

I needed to add copy to the header for a client that would appear on all pages, that they could easily edit and wouldn't involve any editing of the theme files. I immediately thought to use the mission statement that's available at admin/build/themes/settings. The only problem being that by default, the Drupal mission statement only appears on the home page.

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Testing IE6, IE7 & IE8 on one computer

Posted by jocelyn August 28 '09

Recently I had to add compatibility for IE6, IE7 & IE8 to a site I was working on. Only problem was that I can only have one version of IE installed on my machine.

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Inline Messages

Posted by jocelyn August 20 '09

The Inline Messages Drupal module has replaced Inline Errors.

The major difference (and hence the name change) between the 2 modules is that Inline Messages lets you move any form messages (status, error, warning), where Inline Errors only moved form error messages.

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Contributing Projects to Drupal using Tortoise CVS

Posted by jocelyn July 22 '09

While I consider myself fairly technically savvy and have been developing & theming Drupal sites now for a few years, when I had my first module I was ready to contribute, I have to admit that I was feeling a little dumb-struck.

So, in order to help anyone else new to this process, I decided to document the steps you need to take to get your module running on drupal.org.

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Create your own custom override module

Posted by jocelyn July 19 '09

If you've ever developed for Drupal, you know that there are times where it seems very tempting to hack a core or contributed module. Maybe you want to change some text, or add in some extra functionality to forms. While yes it might be quicker to hack the module, you're opening yourself up to a lot of potential problems.

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Inline Form Errors

Posted by jocelyn July 18 '09

I've released my first Drupal module... Inline Errors.

In most Drupal themes, $messages is located at the top of your page.tpl.php. However on most sites, forms such as the comment form are located at the bottom of your page. So should someone submit a comment that has errors, they're kicked back to the top of the page and have to scroll back down to fix their submission.

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