Mustardseed Media Video Podcast (iPod)

Triggers & Actions

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:55:22 -0700

On this week's podcast Bob gives a quick overview of Triggers and Actions functionality in Drupal 6 core. This 'cause and effect' function allows you to automate your site a bit to make it more interactive and save you some time managing it. This podcast shows an example of how to use these to send an email to a site admin when a comment needs moderation. This is the final video in this podcast series for the forseeable future. Thanks for all your support of this podcast, hopefully we'll be able to provide more videos again but for now, we hope our past videos will be a big help to getting everyone started with Drupal! Episode LinksUsing Triggers and Actions, Writing Triggers, hook_hook_info, Writing Actions, hook_action_info

Organic Groups Basics

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:57:27 -0700

On this podcast, Bob dives into the basics of the Organic Groups module. Some people are confused about what OG is and how it can and should be used, so he'll talk about how to set it up, enable notifications, and theme the page so it's more exciting than the standard "river of news" that is enabled by default.

iCal Events as Nodes

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:06:50 -0700

On this podcast, Bob shows how to import any iCal feed of events into your Drupal site and displaying them in a Views-driven calendar on your site. (This means importing your Google or Yahoo! calendars or any other calendar system that puts out a feed in iCal format) This is tasty stuff!

CSS Grids

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:05:36 -0700

CSS grids are amazing tools for building websites that take alot of the tedius work out of laying out pages and content on your website. On this podcast Bob talks about what CSS grid libraries are, how they work, and gives some tips on ways that you can implement them into your Drupal themes.

Panels 3

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:32:16 -0700

On this week's podcast, Bob will show you the basics of version 3 of the Panels module and give an overview on when and where this module can help you lay out some cool and interactive pages. He will look at the basics of how the module works, find some bugs, and show you how to have context sensitive pages using task handlers. He'll also talk about some pointsa for and against using this method for laying out your pages.

Crazy-Awesome Taxonomy Pages

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:45:42 -0700

In this episode, Bob will blow away your current perspective on Drupal's core taxonomy pages. By default, they're boring lists of content, but with a little magic and a few template overrides, these can be the coolest pages on your site.

Views Row Theming

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:33:55 -0700

On this podcast episode, Bob shows you a really powerful and robust way to theme your Views output using a set of under-documented variables. This method will give you faster load times on your views and will give you amazing flexibility and node-style layouts of each of your views. This is powerful stuff, folks!

Get More Podcasts More Often

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:54:19 -0700

Check out this video which tells you about some changes in the podcast and how you can support what we do and get more drupal tutorials on a consistent basis!

Filefield Inline Images

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:49:21 -0700

On this weeks podcast Bob shows you an alternative and forward-looking approach to inserting inline images into your Drupal nodes. Using Filefield Insert and Image Resize Filter we can leverage the power of CCK (and in the future, Media module) to drive our inline images.

CVS for Themers

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:39:22 -0700

At this year's Drupalcon in Washington D.C., lots of Drupal themers got together and tried to identify the major stumbling blocks that allow us to use the CMS (and it's community tools) effectively. One that was mentioned over and over was the CVS system which is required if you want to contribute anything back to the Drupal community. On this podcast, Bob does his best to give CVS basics for themers, using the SmartCVS program. Hopefully these bare-bones basics will get you started so you can contribute your themes to Drupal.org!

Calendar Module

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:38:21 -0800

On this week's podcast, Bob gives you another option, besides Event Module for doing event listings in Drupal. This solution focuses on the Calendar and Date modules.

Twitter Module

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:34:17 -0800

On this week's podcast, Bob shows a simple module that offers great social networking integration to your website. It's the Twitter module and is easy for anyone to setup and integrate onto their site.

Creating Variables

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:18:16 -0800

On this week's Mustardseed podcast, Bob returns from his holiday hiatus to show you how to make new variables available in your theme template files. This will help you clean up your theme templates and get used to doing all theme logic in the template.php file. Don't forget to check out the options for template_preprocess!

Static Theme Conversion

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:12:12 -0800

On this week's podcast, Bob tackles one of the most asked questions: How do I convert a static html/css template into a Drupal 6 theme? We cover the basics in about 10 minutes but it's just the tip of the iceburg. (forgive Bob for his scatterbrained approach...not enough coffee before recording today...)

Views Theming

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:47:44 -0800

Build A Video Gallery

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:05:13 -0800

On this week's podcast Bob shows you how to create a video gallery from start to finish...all in the span of about 8 minutes. The method shown is perfect if you don't want to get your hands dirty with hosting your own files, wrestling with ffmpeg, or worrying about huge bandwidth bills. This tutorial is all about using the CCK plugin called Embedded Media Field. We mash that content together with Views and we're watching video on our website in no time.

Theming User Profiles

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:17:57 -0800

On this week's Mustardseed Media Video Podcast, Bob gives you the basics on how to theme user profiles using Drupal's core Profile Module. He talks about print_r, the $account variable, and puzzles over why the user-profile.tpl.php doesn't mention a crucial element. All this week!

Views Carousel

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:25:19 -0800

On this week's Mustardseed Media Podcast, Bob shows off another module commissioned by Mustardseed. It's the Views Carousel Module for Drupal 6 (and Views 2). This module is a cool way to spice up your site without having to write any custom javascript. Also, don't forget, this can be used on more than just images...it can show any data that Views can spit out in a carousel format!

Podcast with Drupal 6

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:04:25 -0700

In this week's episode, Bob tackles FileField Podcast module and shows you how to Podcast with Drupal 6 (and without audio.module). This approach gives us lots of flexibility because it's purely a CCK/Views setup. What's that? Bob already covered this topic? True, but with the change in the Views API, FileField Podcast module had to change as well, so this is an updated version that shows you how to build your views with a new method and greater flexibility.

Pathauto

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:53:33 -0700

On this week's episode we talk a little philosophical about assuring that your site architecture is reflected in your content URLs (and why this is good for your site visitors). Then, we dig in and make it happen automatically using the Pathauto module in Drupal.

SWF Tools

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:34:58 -0700

In this week's episode, Bob has changed his ways. He no longer robs liquor stores, beats up little kids, or uses the jQuery Media module to display podcast audio and video on his websites. Instead, he shows how awesome, flexible, and easy SWFTools is to implement. All on this week's Mustardseed video podcast!

Imagefield and Imagecache

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:30:03 -0700

On this week's Mustardseed Video Podcast, Bob shows you how to deal with images in your CCK content types. There's always a million ways to skin a cat in Drupal, but this method has been consistant and maintained nicely over time. He couples Imagefield with Imagecache to get some simple image handling in as a CCK field.

Drupal Module Theming

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:38:43 -0700

On this week's episode, Bob tries to extend your theming chops by moving beyond the typical page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php theming techniques and explores the often-untouched land of module theming. Understanding how to theme module output in Drupal 6 will go a long way towards making your sites more customized and beautiful than they could be before.

Block Theme Module

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:22:45 -0700

On this week's podcast, Bob shows that he's fallen in love with yet another Drupal module. This time, it's the Block Theme Module. This week you'll see how the module works and how it makes it so very easy to make all your blocks look differently by throwing one convenient switch in the Drupal UI. It's more Drupal goodness...Enjoy! All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

Views Rotator Module

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:20:36 -0700

On this week's episode, Bob is proud to demo a new module planned and designed by us here at Mustardseed and coded by our good pal at Innovating Tomorrow. The Views Rotator Module makes creating a javascript rotator of any Views generated content extremely easy. We're excited about it and we hope you are too once you see how easy it is to use! All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

Custom Drupal Homepages

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:17:53 -0700

On today's podcast, Bob answers a viewer's question which is also one of the big mysteries to beginning Drupal-ers: "How do I create a custom homepage other than Drupal's default 'river of news' style display?" Today, Bob gives the bare bones basics on his approach to creating custom Drupal homepages. All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

Photoshop Reflections

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:15:03 -0700

On this week's episode, Bob takes a question that's semi related to web design and gives you a quick example of how it's done. We're talking about creating images (or text) with reflections in Photoshop. Simple stuff, but it may spark other ideas when thinking about how to design using Photoshop for the web. All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

Views 2 Overview

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:12:48 -0700

On this week's podcast, Bob gives a general 'lay of the land' on the Views 2 module for Drupal. Views 1 is powerful and totally awesome, but Views 2 will rock your world (after you stare at the new interface blankly for a half hour). This podcast gives you a quick tour of the new interface in order to get you started. All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

Basic CSS Layout

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:08:38 -0700

On this week's podcast, Bob goes back to basics. Many people are still trying to make their way from table-based html layouts to pure CSS layouts. This week's episode is about the bare bones basics of creating a 2 column, fixed width CSS layout from scratch. It uses very little code to start creating standards-friendly sites...let us know, in the comments, if it was helpful for you! All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

CCK Primer

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:06:00 -0700

In this week's episode, Bob digs deeper into the Drupal Content Management System by talking about an absolutly essential contributed module: CCK. This module allows us to create custom types of content for our Drupal site. Stay tuned in 2 weeks for a great companion podcast on this which will be about pairing CCK with Views 2. All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

CSS Sprites

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:01:31 -0700

In honor of the iPhone 3G release, today's episode starts with a look at Apple's main navigation menu and the method they use to build it...CSS Sprites! This episode was spawned by comments from a previous episode so keep that feedback coming...let me know what you'd like to learn about and I'll do my best to fake it! All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

Theming A Drupal Blog

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:59:06 -0700

In today's podcast, Bob dives into the world of Drupal theming by showing how to create a node-custom.tpl.php file and how to use print_r($node). The alternative to this is to do all the same stuff but use contemplate.module. Hopefully it makes sense...Bob recorded this one pre-coffee. All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

From Photoshop To HTML

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:55:17 -0700

In today's episode, Bob attempts to answer his most frequently asked question: "How do I go from my Photoshop comp to an HTML/CSS design?" There's no quick and easy answer, but Bob tries to offer his philosophy on how to look at a website as more than just a sliced and diced Photoshop image. All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

Drupal 6 Theme Basics

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:51:50 -0700

In today's episode, Bob shows you how to create a Drupal 6 theme from scratch by creating 3 simple files...yes, it's really that easy. He also starts using the ScreenFlow software which means you have to look at his face. Sorry! All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

jQuery and Drupal Basics

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:48:01 -0700

In this week's video podcast, Bob shows the basics of how to use the jQuery javascript library with the Drupal CMS. Don't forget to check out the companion audio podcast for this topic. All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

CSS Image Replacement

info@mustardseedmedia.com (Mustardseed Media, Inc.) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:45:00 -0700

In this premier episode of the Mustardseed Media Video Podcast, Bob shows you how to replace any HTML element with an image in a search engine friendly and accessible way. Sweetness! All videos are from http://www.mustardseedmedia.com/podcast