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…
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…
Learning Launch: Drupal Theming
Our latest video class covers theming for Drupal. We’re going to take you step-by-step through the process of creating Drupal themes. You’ll learn how to:…
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…
DrupalCon Prague Keynote with Aral Balkan
The Friday morning keynote at DrupalCon Prague was entitled “Experience Driven Open Source” by Aral Balkan. Speaking to a room full of very smart “geeks”…
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…
Certificates Now Available for All OSTraining Classes
No matter what class you take at OSTraining, if you complete the quizzes, you now get a downloadable certificate. Certificates have been available for several…
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…
Learning Launch: the Drupal Rules Module
Our latest video class covers Rules for Drupal. Rules is a powerful module that is used to automate actions on your Drupal site. With the…
DrupalCon Prague Keynote with Dries Buytaert
I’m currently in Prague, Czech Republic attending the largest European Drupalcon ever, with over 1,700 attendees. Drupalcon Prague 2013 is being held in the gorgeous…
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…
Learning Launch: CKEditor with Drupal
One thing that many people notice when they use Drupal for the first time is that there’s no WYSIWYG editor. Our new video class is…