Web-System D2

Articles spanning website and web-based system analysis, design, development, and implementation.

Training Program Development Support

I am providing training program development support to Phase2 Technology. Support includes but is not limited to Drupal distribution instructional design and development.

Drupal Commons Training Development

Designed and developed two classroom-based training courses for Acquia's Drupal Commons distribution.

  • Drupal Commons Community Manager Course
  • Drupal Commons Site Builder Course

The process included the following.

What are Drupal Panels Contexts

There is a Drupal module called Panels. There is a Drupal module called Context. There is a feature in Panels called context. Panel's context and the Context module are not the same, not even close. According to Earl Miles, the developer of Panels: "In Panels, context is lingo for a wrapper around any significant object. By default, Panels supports 'Node', 'Taxonomy term', 'Taxonomy vocabulary', and 'User' as contexts." But what does that mean?

I recently purchased "Drupal 6 Panels Cookbook" from Packt Publishing, hoping to get all my context/relationships questions answered. I did learn a couple things from the book so it wasn't money wasted. So I did what I often have to do, I starting clicking and observing what happens. This article is what I have figured out. I hope you find this useful.

More Drupal Training Scheduled in November

Even if you aren't going to be the site builder, it is helpful to have some hands-on experience in Drupal so you can communicate productively with your Drupal planner, builders, themers, developers, etc. Drupal Hands-On Intro for Builders gives you insights into core Drupal features and the most commonly used contributed modules. You go from a simple site plan to a fully functional site in two days using features such as CCK, Views, Imagecache, Pathauto, and more.

Drupal Hands-On Intro for Builders

Description: In this classroom course you will build a site that has four site sections, custom content types, views and more. Each section demonstrates commonly used techniques used to build dynamic Drupal sites. In addition to using Drupal's many administrative features, you will use modules such as

Custom Drupal Commons Training for Acquia

I was hired to plan and provide two one-day training sessions for Acquia's client. The first training session covered:

  • Tasks performed by authenticated users in a customized Drupal Commons site such as the creation of group nodes in different group configurations.

Custom Drupal Training for IBM

I was hired to evaluate how their new Drupal site was configured and provide two days of custom training.

Training was casual and free form with the client asking general Drupal questions as well as questions pertaining to how the site was configured.

Image Gallery Tutorial: Images Belong to Multiple Galleries

I did a Google search recently to see how people were creating image galleries in Drupal. I found several options but none did what I needed. So I combined strategies offered by those who have shared before me and came up with a way to have two image gallery displays automatically appear on the gallery page AND allow images to belong to multiple galleries. Let's see how it's done.

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