Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Today I finally got around to testing out the new field suggestions in Drupal 7. If you’re not familiar with the standard suggestions in short you can either use field templates or override theme_field using a naming convention not unlike we do with preprocess functions. What struck me as kind of odd was the lack suggestions for field types—maybe there’s a very good reason for this such as performance, I don’t know, but I thought it might be interesting to see if I could use them, if I wanted to.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Sunday, December 27th, 2009
We had a project recently where we needed to add first and last classes to Drupals secondary local tasks. I was in a bit of a hurry so instead of trying to figure this out myself I Googled it and pretty quickly found this post on Drupal.org which seemed to fit the bill. Problem is the post doesn’t actually tell you how or where to use the snippet, which isn’t much good for those of you struggling with Drupal in the first place. Never fear, I’ll show you how to get those handy first/last classes into Drupals secondary local tasks.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Drupal’s template suggestions are plentiful and pretty powerful stuff, however, given all the options there are some noteable oversights. In particular the ability to use page-taxonomy suggestions per vocabulary, something like page-vocab-1.tpl.php to theme all taxonomy term pages in vocabulary 1 (where 1 is the VID or vocabulary id).
To achieve this we turn to our trusty preprocess_page function which by now every Drupal themer worth his or her salt knows all about.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, October 26th, 2009
How to add a Superfish drop menu to Genesis or Adaptivetheme is one of the most common questions I get. Believe when I say I get emails from well intentioned Drupal users on a weekly basis asking me this. So now, please stop emailing me, I relent, heres how its done.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Quick list of some handy font family groups for web design and Drupal theme development. Includes the three groups that come with Adaptivetheme starter theme and an example of how to set the font-family in your CSS.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
The Semantic Views module for Drupal 6 allows you to easily insert HTML markup for your Views rows and fields.
This is a new module by bangpound and I think this is really going to change how we think about theming Views because for the first time it puts clean semantic Views output in the hands of site builders and other end users, without having to get their hands dirty in the templates.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, September 7th, 2009
Prolly one of the most frequently asked drupal design questions to me and others in the Drupal forum is “how do I [insert question] CSS”. Answering these questions provide little more than the proverbial fish, whereas we really want to be teaching them how to fish. Heres a few resources that can really give you a head start with CSS.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Sometimes you want to be able to style menu items individually. For example you may want to use image replacement to display icons instead of the text, or you may want to make one menu item stand out from the rest.
Drupals Primary and Secondary links allow you to do this because they print a class on the li that includes the mlid, so its easy to target a particular link doing something like:
li.menu-123 a {font-weight: bold;}
But, in normal Drupal menus, the ones that appear in blocks, no such classes appear, which leaves them all with the same style.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Genesis supports 3 different layouts including both sidebars on either the left or right of the main content. In this configuration it can be useful to have a sidebar-top region that spans the width of both sidebars, but sits on top of them.
An example of when you might want to do this would be to display a fixed height banner or contextual ads. Its not good for content that will change in height as it could then overflow the div—while the fixed height limitation could be overcome, this tutorial is meant for beginners and is a simple strait forward explanation of how to add new regions in Drupal and how to position the new sidebar-top region using CSS.
Submitted by Jeff Burnz on Monday, July 27th, 2009
In this short tutorial I’m going to show you how to set a unique class on your nodes based on taxonomy terms, which is something I’ve been asked about more than once or twice.
