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Building Mobile-friendly Menus in Drupal 7

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When was the last time you looked at your site analytics? Over the last 5 years, mobile web browsing has taken off and many businesses and organizations have been brushing their mobile users under the carpet. You don't need to do this! You can convert a basic Drupal site to be more mobile-friendly in short amount of time, and using modules or plugins can save you a ton of time. Today we're going to look at some different techniques or plugins you can use to convert your site menu to a mobile-friendly format.

Comparison of pagination techniques for Drupal 7

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Pagination is one of those elements we take for granted. Most of the time it works fine out of the box and requires no customization or configuration. However, you do indeed have options in this department and changing the pagination can greatly benefit a site that has hundreds or thousands of pieces of content. Today we're going to examine a few different modules and techniques you can use to improve the speed and efficiency of content browsing.

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Tutorial - Designing a search experience in Drupal

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It's always there, just sitting taking up space. Much of the time it goes unused, but you want to keep it there just in case. I'm talking about the search box, and it has become a ubiquitous but often overlooked element of a site. Designers like me were often very limited in terms of what could be done in terms of customization of the search feature in Drupal. Nowadays, modules developers have given us some powerful and simple to use tools to tone the search experience. Today we're going to look at one solution to the search problem.

Tutorial - Better advertisement integration with Drupal 7 & Views

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It's a trap that a lot of sites fall into: you get the site designed and developed, you're finishing up implementation and then it hits you. Where are we going to put the ads? Maybe we'll just throw them in the sidebar or above the header...

Tutorial - What to do before your Drupal 7 site has launched

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We've done a lot of different tutorials regarding what you can do to expand your current site features, but what about things you can do before your site launches? Today we're going to be building a teaser countdown page that will allow people to visit your URL and hopefully generate some interest. To make it a touch better, we're going to be incorporating a email form that will add the visitor to a mailing list which you can then use to contact once you launch.



 

Tutorial - Build a modular presentation tool in Drupal 7

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Today we're going to look at a use of Drupal that is a bit outside the norm. Instead of the usual business website, corporate blog, or news magazine site, let's look at a building a presentation tool. How or why would you use such a thing? Well, in a world where the Powerpoint or document-based presentations and proposals are rampant, sometimes you need to do something to stand out a bit.

Tutorial - Build a tabbed search/sort filter in Drupal 7

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Anyone with a little experience with Views knows that you can take a list of content and expose some filters to your users so that they can limit or rearrange the list to their specifications. However, when this is done it uses a series of drop down menus and an "apply" button. While this is a powerful and built-in function, it limits our options when it comes to styling our filters as we want. What if we want our filters to be pre-rendered tabs, perhaps with an AJAX loader that will build queries as needed?

Tutorial - How to Build a Lightbox Portfolio in Drupal 7

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Drupal is great for large community driven websites. However, it is likely that not every site you build will be a huge site with 50 modules and dozens of content types. Why learn 2 systems? You can build small sites with Drupal too. The nice thing about this is, because Drupal is so expandable, later on you can add in features without worrying about running into the limitations of your CMS.

Tutorial - How to Work and Style Breadcrumbs in Drupal 7

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The little details in your site can make all the difference when it comes down to accessibility and ease-of-use. Breadcrumbs usually fall by the wayside on most Drupal sites because at the default level they barely work. Sure they are great on the admin side but once you set up various content types, views, pages, and contact pages, all of a sudden your breadcrumbs become dumb. They don't know how your pages are linked unless you use "Navigation" or "Main Menu" for everything.

Tutorial - How to Style An Event Calendar in Drupal 7

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Now that Drupal 7 has a decent track record and updated modules, there are more things you can do every day. Recent changes to the Calendar module make building and styling your own calendar better than ever. Whether you run a site for small community functions or you are full-fledged event coordinator, a useful calendar will make your site that much better.

Today we'll be going through a basic setup and styling process for Calendar in Drupal 7. Let's take a look at what we'll be building:

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