Drupal School

Drupal School: Saving Image Data From Flash

Elliott Rothman — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:55:00 +0000

This is a rather lengthy episode that demonstrates how to save image data from a Flash application into Drupal. Assumes knowledge of Actionscript 3 & Object Oriented Programming. Uses Services & AMFPHP. For example files, and a preview release of the image services module, please visit: http://www.snipurl/flashdrupal

Getting Started with Zen

Elliott Rothman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:28:12 +0000

An updated version of how to use the Zen theme in Drupal 5.x

Creating Multiple Maintainable Image Galleries

Elliott Rothman — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:23:57 +0000

An updated version on how to create multiple maintainable image galleries in Drupal

Drupal School: Zengaged to Themes!

Elliott Rothman — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:37:40 +0000

More with themeing using the Zen theme. In this episode we design a site in Photoshop, and skip porting it to xhtml/css and move to immediately making it work with the Zen theme.

Drupal School: Themeing with Zen

Elliott Rothman — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:37:42 +0000

Intro to themeing in Drupal. We take a look at the Zen theme, and why it's a great starting point. Cover some basic CSS stuff, and look at how we can begin to create a unique looking theme using the Zen theme as a starting point.

Drupal School: Creating Community Websites

Elliott Rothman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:39:54 +0000

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: Configuring the forum module, checking site info, user preferences, theme re-configuration, how to plan for a community site.

Drupal School: Multi-User Blog

Elliott Rothman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:30:00 +0000

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: Creating multiple user accounts, access control, groups, basic security, removing the login block.

Drupal School: Single User Blog 3 of 3

Elliott Rothman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:23:35 +0000

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: Using Taxonomy DHTML module to automate taxonomy term menus, a look at the Drupal IRC channel, basic theme modification, Firebug and more.

Drupal School: Single User Blog 2 of 3

Elliott Rothman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:19:05 +0000

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: Defining a taxonomy vocabulary, creating categorized lists, the difference between content types, adding menu items, installing and configuring the pathauto module.

Drupal School: Single User Blog 1 of 3

Elliott Rothman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:14:54 +0000

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: Creating the first user account, changing site information, configuring the default Drupal theme, Garland, enabling the blog module, creating content.

Drupal School: Configuring Your System

Elliott Rothman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:11:44 +0000

Configuring Your System: Setting up Apache, PHP, MySQL, installing Drupal.

Welcome to Drupal School

Elliott Rothman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:18:08 +0000

Intro video

Drupal School: Quick Tip: Sites/All

Elliott Rothman — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:10:58 +0000

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: Why adding contributed modules and themes to the sites/all folder is a better practice then the older way of adding it directly to the modules folder. *I forgot to mention in the video, this also allows multiples drupal sites running off of one install to utilize the same modules.

Drupal School: Maintainable Image Gallery

Elliott Rothman — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:03:40 +0000

This Drupal video tutorial demonstrates: How to build a maintainable image gallery in 21 minutes! Relies on: CCK Imagefield Imagecache Views Views Bonus Pack Thickbox

Drupal School: SWFTools

Elliott Rothman — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:20:34 +0000

This episode covers some of the features of the new module, SWFTools, for the content management software, Drupal. In this episode I cover how to setup SWFTools with Jeroen Wijering's Flash Media Player, and configure Drupal to automatically handle file uploads as media to be contained within a flash media player.