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Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery

Drupal is getting a hotter and hotter topic by the day. This is proven by the amount and the diversity of books being published about it. There are beginner books, advanced books, the ones with a more hands-on approach. There are books about module development, theming, ... But the most significant proof that Drupal is hot is that some books are available already that cover only a small topic of Drupal like security, views and now also JavaScript and jQuery. And it are those latest few that are the most appealing from my point of view.

In particular I've been really looking forward to Matt Butcher's Drupal 6 Javascript and jQuery. This book covers JavaScript and jQuery from a Drupal point of view. Drupal already opted very early for jQuery as its preferred JavaScript framework. In time, Drupal added another library on top of jQuery (Drupal.js) that gives Drupal themers and module developers a range of tools on the JavaScript layer to translate strings, use some kind of theming (like the "PHP one"), easier work with AJAX, ... These things aren't covered very well (yet) in the Drupal handbook and API. This book fills this gap.

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January 03, 2010 — books, Drupal, JavaScript, jQuery, reviews

"Introduction to Drupal", presentation slides

Following up on my presentation slides of "Drupal 7 - What's new (from an end-user perspective) ?", I have now upload my slides "Introduction to Drupal" of a presentation I did for our Drupal seminar at Calibrate seminar, organised by BuzzBerry.

This is a non-technical introduction. It's more targeted to people who have no idea on what Drupal is and what makes it so great.

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November 24, 2009 — Drupal, presentation

Drupal website UiT in Vlaanderen runner-up in first Belgian Usability Awards

Last week, the winners of the first Belgian Usability Awards were announced. The event was organized by usability experts AGConsult. There were 3 categories:

  • Belgium’s most user-friendly website (overall winner) - Public voting
  • Most user-friendly government or non-profit website - Jury voting
  • Most user-friendly corporate or commercial website - Jury voting

Winners in each of those categories were Brussels Airlines, Plan België and Ancienne Belgique.

Runner up for the public voting price and the jury price in the category "non-profit" was UiT in Vlaanderen, a Drupal based event website.

I've already written about this site a few times.
You can find out how this site was build via my presentation slides of my talk on FOSDEM 2009.

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November 19, 2009 — Drupal, showcase, UiT in Vlaanderen, Usability

Drupal 7 - What's new (from an end-user perspective) ?

Today we hosted our Drupal seminar at Calibrate seminar, organised by BuzzBerry.

I did a presentation on Drupal in general (which I'll upload later) and on Drupal 7 specifically. We wanted to give our (potential) clients and Drupal people in general a short overview of what Drupal 7 means for end users. You can find the presentation on slideshare, download it or watch it below.

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November 18, 2009 — Drupal 7, Drupal, presentation

Drupal "Subsites" module allows you to easily create minisites

I just released a new Drupal module. It was one that has been laying around for some time now, but got constantly improved to make it reusable on as much sites as possible. I stripped the feature set down to the minimum and called it "subsites".

Download it at its Drupal project page.

What are subsites?

Subsites are a part of your website that can have its own menu, theme, custom CSS or anything else you want.

An example? Suppose you are making a magazine website. On most magazine websites you might want to create small subsites about a certain topic. This subsite probably has its own menu (next to the primary navigation). It might also have its own look. This new look could be a minimal change from the default site look (a different background, different colors, ...) or it might be a completely new look.

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November 03, 2009 — Drupal, modules, subsites

drupalcoder.com is a blog on all things Drupal in specific and LAMP on OS X in general. It is maintained by Davy Van Den Bremt, a Belgian (Drupal) web developer and designer living in Ghent. The goal of this blog is to log all interesting things that have crossed the writer's path while developing Drupal sites. You can read all about Davy's professional activities on his LinkedIn profile. If you want to get in touch, use the contact form.