Drupal 6

A recent project used the Google Calendar widget - this is embedded in a iframe (in a standard Drupal block) and thus can’t be styled with CSS as per normal - but we wanted to style it to match the overall design.

After a bit of hunting around for a solution I found this: MyGoogleCal. The download link is a bit hidden - grab it directly here…

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.

Myself, like many others, have always had an acrimonious relationship with the word “node”. It didn’t exactly get off to a good start when node presented me with a rude “wtf” moment when we first met. Things only went down hill after that, node remaining aloof and abstract, without ever just coming out and telling me what it actually was.

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.