How We Wrote the Best-Selling Drupal Book
We’ve been fortunate over the last couple of years to have great success with our CMS books. Drupal 7 Explained launched in May and over…
Author: Steve Burge
Steve is the founder of OSTraining. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve's work straddles the line between teaching and web development.
The Police Are Better at Copywriting Than You
A seemingly insignificant story in the news made an unusually profound impact on me. This is what I learned. My days begin by perusing newspapers…
Did Open Source Software Bring Down Healthcare.gov?
No, almost certainly not. A lot of news articles about Healthcare.gov have mentioned Jekyll, an open source tool for generating database-free websites. I’ve asked people…
Are Jekyll and Static Site Generators Easier to Use?
While researching my article on Healthcare.gov, I had the chance to dig deeper into the open source technology behind the site. I tested Jekyll, which…
WordPress Plugin Favorites Explained in a Video
Earlier this year WordPress added a favorite plugin feature. This feature allows you to create a list of all plugins you really like. Your favorite…
Learning Launch: WordPress Mobile Web Development
Members of OSTraining now get a new e-book every month. This month’s book is WordPress Mobile Web Development. This book by Rachel McCollin teaches you…
Add Captions to Drupal Images with jCaption
jCaption is a simple but very useful little module. jCaption allows you to add captions to your Drupal images, no matter what editor you’re using.…
How to Uninstall a Drupal 7 Module
This tutorial will show you how to uninstall a module from your Drupal 7 site. In this example, we’re going to show you how to…
Using the Firefox Open Source Phone
About two weeks ago, my iPhone accidentally went swimming in the lake near our house. Rather than replace it immediately, I decided to try something…
How to Use PDFs on Your Website
PDFs are a real problem for website builders. The PDF format was first launched over 20 years ago, and it was designed to be a…
Track Hits and Show the Most Popular Drupal Content
Nearly every news and magazine site shows a list of the most popular content. Drupal can track the popularity of content using only the core…
One Content Item on Your Drupal Homepage
By default, Drupal ships with a blog on the homepage. Whenever you add new content, that can be pushed to the blog of many articles…
Introduction to Pods: WordPress as a CMS
For WordPress users who have moved beyond the basics, the inflexible content in WP can be frustrating. Until recently, you could use a Post or…
A Drupal Dropdown List of Countries, States, Cities
We had a question from a member this week. He was collecting information from users and wanted to collect addresses: “I need to have a…
A Video Introduction to Drupal 8
Recently we published a written introduction to Drupal 8 called, “The surprising thing about Drupal 8 is how unsurprising it is“. Last month, I gave…
DrupalCamp Atlanta 2013: Free Tickets
DrupalCamp Atlanta is returning on Saturday, October 19th. DrupalCamp Atlanta is an all-day DrupalCamp at the Cobb Galleria Centre. This year’s keynote speaker will be…
The First Drupal, Joomla and WordPress Tweets
Twitter search has long been incomplete and difficult to use. However, Topsy.com finally seems to have a reliable solution. They’ve built a search engine that…
Do Short Pages Convert Better Than Long Pages?
One of our favorite tools at OSTraining is Optimizely. Optimizely is a tool that makes it really easy to do A/B testing on your sites.…
Join Us at Joomla Day Houston
It’s great to see Joomla Days in new locations. October brings us the first Joomla Day in Houston, Texas. Houston is one of the biggest…
Infographic on the Worldwide Growth of Open Source
In 2006, there were 8 events, all held in northern Europe and the west coast of North America. The following year there was an event…