Drupal

The local Drupal users group in Columbus, Ohio is putting together an intro to Drupal meeting this Sunday. They will build a website during the meeting and show off the power of Drupal. If you are considering or wondering what Drupal can do for you then it is a perfect time to ask questions to some Drupal guru's.

I use Drupal to run this site, but my site is tiny compared to some of the huge sites using it such as Rackspace, Fast Company, Popular Science, NASA, The Onion, Amnesty International, and many celebrity websites like Jennifer Lopez, Avril Lavigne and Britney Spears.

You can find out more information about the meeting at the Columbus Drupal Group on drupal.org. It will be Oct. 4th from 2 pm to 5 pm at the downtown Columbus library in the Board Room on 3rd floor. The library is at 96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, OH 43215.

CODUG (Columbus Drupal Users Group) meets on the first Sunday of every month at that location for its monthly meetings.

I Wish I could go but I've got some family obligations. Hope everyone has fun and learns something new.

I thought I'd pass on some info in case anyone using Drupal 6 is trying to do something similar which I just wrestled with.

I'm developing a revision to this site and in updating my site's look I decided to change some of the columns and add a region. Just for some basic info, I've moved both default sidebars to the right of the content area and created a new region called "above_sidebars" that is the combined width of the sidebars.

I quickly realized when neither of the sidebars were displayed the content region would change from 560px wide to 960px. This width change was coming from the CSS markup for ".no-sidebars #content" in the styles.css file. I couldn't just change the width setting because I needed to be able to remove all sidebars and including my new above_sidebars and allow the content to run the full width of the site.

The CSS class ".no-sidebars" was being inserted in the body statement for the page.

 These CSS classes "front", "page-node", "no-sidebars", and "lightbox-processed" added by a page creation variable in Drupal 6 that originated in the Zen theme in Drupal 5. It allows pages to be dynamically themed without having to place tons of conditional statements in their page.tpl.php or other theme pages. Instead the information is worked out in the Drupal code. The name of the variable used to print out the CSS classes may vary based on your theme. Mine is $body_classes. ... [Read More]

This website is built on Drupal. For those who do not know what that is, it is a powerful content managment system similar to WordPress or Joomla. ... [Read More]