Drupal 6

Collapsible Blocks with Cookies

Want to create collapsible blocks in Drupal 6 that actually remember the state the user left them in?

It's pretty easy with JQuery which is built-in to Drupal 6.

Lorem Red Drupal 6 Theme, Almost Complete!

Finally I'm almost at a point where I can sign up for a CVS account on Drupal to submit the theme you see here (Lorem Red).

I made a few sacrifices on the way. For example, I really didn't want to stick with fixed width as I want the site to be friendly to handheld devices. These are things to work on and I can add those to the sprint backlog.

Lorem Red Theme

Well I almost have the base stylesheet down for the Lorem Red Drupal 6 theme you see here. A few more loose ends before the admin section styling, then off to bug fixing *cough* IE *cough* and feature add-ons.

Drupal's Upload wierdness

Interesting discovery with Drupal's file uploads today. We created a microsite that users can upload video to. These files could be 30MB or less... At first I believed this was a small change to our php.ini file on our server changing the following:

upload_max_filesize = 30M
post_max_size = 30M

Installed Drupal 6!

Well that was a breeze! Much improvement made to the already easy-to-use installation interface. Already I can see some great new jQuery features just by typing this blog entry on a base Drupal install.

I sense big things ahead for the Drupal Project, especially with Dries's new business venture and the demand for solid frameworks that are easy to use and easy to extend. Companies like the one I work for rely heavily on being able to offer clients an easy to use Content Management System. It allows our team to focus less on that aspect of our web projects, eliminating one more task.