Developer Karma

Congratulations to the Mindcomet team for launching two great new sites, Loch Haven a Florida Hospital site and Healthy Tuna, a site about education and cooking all things tuna  (Healthy Tuna is a sister site of About Seafood).

I would like to introduce you to the most fun you can legally have with a fruitcake this season.  This is a fun little game we put together at MindComet and I hope you enjoy it.

After trying out the concept I posted in My pathauto + menu utopian dream I found out there were some major shortcomings.

This entire post came about due to a great screencast by Addison Berry about using secondary menus. If you haven't already seen the screencast or you don't understand how to make the children of the primary navigation show up as the secondary navigation then you must watch the screencast.

I'll come out and say it, before watching this screencast, I didn't even know using the children of the primary navigation as a secondary menu was even possible.  I had always used the secondary navigation for things like footer navigation and created individual menus for the various sections of the site and placed each block.

The other day I heard about Cache Router, a newish module for Drupal that allows multiple ways to cache content in a more scalable manor than the default Drupal caching. Since the Memcache module has been lagging behind for Drupal 6, I decided to give the new module a whirl on Developer Karama (using the Memcache method).

Today I was working on a site when I noticed my node paths were incorrect for some of my nodes. Now I heavily use Pathauto in conjunction with Taxonomy to define my paths for everything on the site and this issue hasn't come up before. I swear, I didn't change my Pathauto rules ([termpath-raw]/[title-raw]), so what changed?

Yesterday I received an email from one of my clients asking why the blocks weren't showing up on a 404 page (he went to a url that did not exist). Now I had always known that Drupal doesn't show blocks on the 404 page but I had no idea why and no idea of how to re-enable blocks on the said page.

Just the other day I was tasked with creating a 90+ field Webform in a Drupal site I was creating. While the number of fields was a little daunting creating the form was easy once I got past a few sticky points. Hopefully you will have a much easier time creating your own Webform if you follow these tips.

Congratulations to the MindComet team on launching it's latest Drupal site http://www.disneychildrens.com/ !!

At this months Florida Drupal meetings a lot of questions came up about how we create websites. Now these questions weren't really about the technical aspects of creating the site, they were more about the planning and the high level steps we take.