Drupal development articles and other web design related articles

Earlier this month we contributed a high quality grunge Drupal theme to the Drupal community. Which received lot of good words.

Now we are set to release a new premium Drupal theme namely Endless Corporate Mix. This will be a mixture of corporate design and general web 2.0 website design.

I highly request you guys to please post a review of the design in the comment section to let me correct things which you don't like.

I have posted only two screenshots but it will be available in various background color scheme and with an option to specify custom background color.

In this article I am going to show you how to modify Drupal submitted information by editing your template.php file from your theme directory.

By default, Drupal's node info is shown like this Submitted by author_name on Thu, 06/05/2008 - 17:20. We will first change it to author_name on monday 06/05/2008 then we will remove author name and change it to Posted on Thu 6/5/2008. By doing this you will know the basic concept of this function.

There are several benefits of including jQuery from Google's server than including it from your own website. The most important reason is that you will not need to frequently download updates from jQuery website and update your files. Google will take care of this. You only need to specify major version of jQuery. See the code below for more details.

In this article I will show you how to make a rounded corner boxes without using images or javascript. We will use pure CSS2 only. However, some browsers support border radius property of CSS3.

This trick will apply to all browsers including IE6 which is know as headache for web developers.

Drupal's phptemplate engine has several template files and each file has several available variables. They are generally used printing their values. But, if you are bit more tricky, you can also utilize their values in various different approaches.

Viewing available variables:

There is a very simple PHP function to print available variables.

<?php  var_dump(get_defined_vars()); ?>

Simple use it in your template file in which you want to see variables. For an instance, I did it on node.tpl.php and I got following variables:

Recently I put youtube's embed video code on one of my website and tried check it on XHTML validator, I got some errors related to youtube code and my webpage became invalid. So here I found a way to make it valid with the help of css.

We have added a new theme in our premium themes section namly Endless Mirror Magazine. This theme has lot of features that I have already described on the theme page of this magazine style Drupal theme. This theme is developed with a goal to make it a best News and Magazine theme available for Drupal. When we finished, we could easily say that this theme is best magazine theme for any CMS we know, right?

And its time to say what people are saying this since calender came into existence,

"Its time to give best wishes to everyone"

I wish all of you happy Holidays and an exciting 2009. Year 2008 will be memorable for me as I launched my website, worthapost.com, in this year. I hope year 2009 will be more exciting for all of us.

New premium theme added to our database. It has been designed to attract bloggers, gadget news lovers and personal websites etc. please take a look at this page to learn more about this theme Endless XS.

A new theme, Endless News, has been added to our database. This is first Drupal premium theme launched by me. This themeis a newspaper style Drupal theme which has lot of features. This theme is designed to target user seeking advanced Drupal themes with web 2.0 attitude. Theme is ideal for news websites or rich content websites as it has variety of regions to place content. More details can be found here.

Worthapost.com has changed its looks, work model and capabilities etc. Bye Bye to old website. Now you can browse themes in well organized manner. I have also stepped into new 'Premium themes' area of Drupal.

You can now do following things here

• Browse themes in well organized manner
• Buy some high end premium themes for Drupal
• Submit your own theme to get it listed here
• Articles related to web design world and Drupal
• Contact me for custom themes and Drupal or Wordpress project
• Rate and comment on themes and articles
• etc.

I will keep adding new things and themes to this website and I hope you enjoy this place.