Our New, Improved Technology for Live Training
Live training has always been the cornerstone of OSTraining. We started this business by doing live training classes around the US. Over the last few…
OSDonate and OSYouTube Are Now Responsive
Two of our Joomla extensions now support responsive behavior in both Joomla 2 and 3. OSDonate is a very popular PayPal donation module and OSYouTube…
Learning Launch: Joomla Content Editor Class
Joomla Content Editor (JCE) is one of the top 5 Joomla extensions ever. First launched in 2006, JCE is a powerful WYSIWYG editor and remains…
The Beauty of Lego Instructions
Christmas has just come and gone. We have two young kids and I spent a good deal of time putting toys together. It was a…
Our Move to Wistia for Streaming Videos
If you’ve been around OSTraining for a while, you know that we offer a LOT of video tutorials. At the time of this posting, we…
What Happens if You Let Your Domain Name Expire?
My client, Amadea Morningstar is well known, for good reason, in the world of Ayuerveda. For those, of you who don’t know, Ayuerveda is a…
Meet OSTraining at SANDcamp in San Diego
If you’re in Southern California, we’d love to meet you in January. SANDcamp is the big, annual Drupal event in San Diego. SANDCamp is being…
Decimal, Float or Integer in Drupal Fields?
Drupal comes with 13 fields and several of them deal with numbers. Newcomers to Drupal can become confused about the difference because there are 5…
How to Write at Work
I’m the father of two adult daughters and a teenaged granddaughter. They have told me a hundred times “what you say is not as important…
Learning Launch: Drupal Flag Module
Flag is an incredibly flexible module. You can use Flag so your visitors can bookmark content and save it for later. You can use Flag…
30 Most Popular Tutorials of 2013
During 2013, we published almost 300 posts on the OSTraining blog. We wrote at least one post per week on WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. So,…
OSContent is Joomla 3 Ready
OSContent is our Joomla extension for quickly creating or deleting articles and categories. OSContent has long been available for Joomla 2. We now also have…
Sending HTML Emails from Drupal Webform
The Webform module is one of the most popular modules in Drupal. Webform is relied upon for everything, from contact forms, to donations to event…
7 Lessons A Writer Learned from Tweeting
An uncommonly excellent marketing firm in Atlanta needed to hire a writer. In keeping with their culture and style, their help-wanted ad read: “Wanted: Defender…
Learning Launch: WordPress Developer Plugin Class
The WordPress Developer plugin is the essential tool for anyone who develops sites in WordPress. The Developer plugin will help you optimize your development environment…
Learning Launch: Drupal 7 Development by Example
Every month, OSTraining members get a new, professional-quality book to download. The book for December is “Drupal 7 Development by Example” by Kurt Madel. This…
Let It Snow … On Your WordPress Blog
This week Topher lets us in on a little addition to the Jetpack plugin from WordPress.com. Jetpack is one of the most popular plugins in…
Webinar: 8 Ways To Manage Joomla Hassle-Free
Come and join us and Siteground for a great Joomla webinar this week. I’ll be presenting “8 Ways To Manage Joomla Hassle-Free”. We’ll show you…
4 Social Sharing Modules for Drupal
If you don’t give your site visitors an opportunity to share your webpages, you’re missing out on an opportunity for others to hear about your…
Display Suite and Views Together in Drupal
Display Suite is one of our very favorite Drupal modules. We love how easy it is for even new Drupal users to control their content…