8 Recommended Themes for Drupal Beginners
“I downloaded Omega and Delta at the advice of an expert, but I’m really confused about how they work.” We hear a lot of support…
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.
Learning Launch: YouTube Optimization Class
This is the final week of our month-long launch of new SEO and Marketing classes. We’ve already released four classes and a new area of…
5 Web Design Lessons I’ve Learnt from Running an E-commerce Store
As a content writer, I never thought I’d be running an e-commerce store, but when a brilliant product – and the perfect branding concept –…
A List of Every DrupalCamp Ever Held
Over the last few weeks we’ve been working on a project to show the growth of open source around the world. The project will show…
5 Modules Allowing Drupal Users to Choose Permissions for Others
For large sites with large numbers of users, permissions can become a difficult issue. One common situation is that site owners want to allow some…
Conversion Optimization Class is Now Live
Today is the third week of our month-long launch of new SEO classes. We’ve already released three classes and a new area of the support…
The Bootstrap Boom is Just Getting Started
Lately, I’ve been giving a few presentations about Bootstrap, the CSS framework. It’s fun to demonstrate how easy and powerful Bootstrap can be. However, the…
Field Collection to Easily Re-use Drupal Fields
As with so many of the tutorials we write, this tutorial started as a question in our support forums. One of our members wanted to…
Welcome Bill Tomczak and Valentin Garcia
We’re delighted to welcome two new staff members to OSTraining. Bill Tomczack and Valentin Garcia have joined us over the last few weeks. If you’ve…
Learning Launch: Content Marketing Class
Today is the second week of our month-long launch of new SEO classes. Last week we released two classes and a new area of the…
Multisites are a Bad Idea for Many Sites
Many things sound like great ideas. Not all of them are in practice. As open source becomes more and more popular, we see organizations rolling…
Come meet us at DrupalCorn in Iowa
At the start of August we’re heading up to Iowa for the wonderfully named DrupalCorn. This event is very similar to DrupalCon, except it has…
Learning Launch: Going Back to Our Roots with SEO Classes
Today is a happy day for me. OSTraining is going back to its roots. Back in early 2007, my full-time job was doing SEO for…
Nivo Slider: Quick, Beautiful Drupal Slideshows
We often recommend the Views Slideshow module as a powerful way to create slideshows in Drupal. However, Views Slideshow requires quite a lot of Drupal…
Change Languages in Drupal Sites
This week, an OSTraining member had a question about translating Drupal sites. They installed their site in English, but then wanted to change to a…
Revisions in WordPress 3.6 Explained
WordPress 3.6 is now in the beta phase and a release is expected shortly. One of the major new improvements in WordPress 3.6 is an…
The surprising thing about Drupal 8 is how unsurprising it is
I started writing this blog post with a different title in mind. I intended to write a list of the things that would actually surprise…
Optimizing website images for speed
Optimizing your website images can save a lot of bandwidth and improve page speed considerably. All you need is a little time and a few…
The One Problem People Always Forget about Remote Work
There’s been a lot of talk about remote or distributed work lately, from the events at Yahoo to the new book coming from 37Signals. Here…
The Best and Worst U.S State Websites
Over the last few years it’s become more and more common to see government websites embrace modern design and open source. It’s now rare to…