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…
Re-write Output from the Drupal 7 Media Module
One of the great things with Drupal is the ability to over-write just about anything! We had a question in our support forums this week…
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…
How We’re Refreshing the OSTraining Brand
For many years, OSTraining has taught people how to build websites with Joomla, WordPress and Drupal. After hundreds of classes, thousands of videos and many…
Compress Drupal Files to Speed Up Your Site
It’s not unusual for people to tell us that their Drupal sites run slowly. Part of the reason that Drupal sites run slowly is that…
Teaching Joomla at Miami Dade College
Over the last few weeks we’ve been talking with people who are helping open source make inroads at universities. We’ve spoken with teachers of open…
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…
OSTalks #8 with Andy Miller from RocketTheme
Welcome to the eighth episode of OSTalks, our video podcast series. Our aim with OSTalks is to present conversations with interesting people from around the…
Google PageSpeed Service: Making Your Site Faster
I design and develop Joomla sites professionally. I work with many hosting companies and created a site about Joomla Hosting to discuss many of them. During…
Teaching Drupal at Yale University
Over the last few weeks we’ve been talking with people who are helping open source make inroads at universities. We’ve spoken with teachers of open…
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…
Learn Drupal at CapitalCamp in Washington D.C.
If you can make it, we’d love to meet you at Capital Camp in Washington D.C.. The Drupal community is holding Capital Camp during the…
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…