Benjamin Nicoll

When theming Drupal Menus you will often want to remove the default styles associated with certain menu elements.

Add Code to template.php

My Theme:

In my case I'm using Twitter BootStrap and replacing the old 'menu nav' ul classes on the Navigation menu so my code looks like this:

When playing with frontend editable fields - which at this point in time is far from polished - I was consistently getting interrupted with AJAX alerts. Rather than have these ruin the end user experience it's easier to just re-direct the error through to the console.log with a little bit of JavaScript.

The error

When recently attempting to set the path of a file field in Drupal 7 based on a token I found that there was only options available for that of date; page; user; random; site; and variable. Where was the token options for node? A seemingly straight forward task was all of a sudden proving to be very difficult and i was beginning to lose time quickly.

This is a pretty simple fix to ensure your embedded video clips are responsive when viewed across different devices.

Step 1.

Include the following CSS in your stylesheet:

This is easily the best video clip of 2012.

The regular Drupal messages can be visually enhanced and made disappear after a period of time with a little bit of Javascript. Simply create a new Javascript file [ eg - messages.js ] and place it in the theme directory.

jQuery in Drupal 7.x is namespaced to avoid conflicts with other Javascript libraries such as Prototype. All your code that expects to use jQuery as $ should be wrapped in an outer context.

If you don't do this you may see errors such as "Uncaught TypeError: Property '$' of object [object DOMWindow] is not a function"

Code Example

Sometimes it's handy to be able to embed a Drupal view directly into a page or block. An example of where this is used is on the Tetris Digital Recruitment explore block to produce dynamic lists of content from views within the website.

* Note that this function does NOT display the title of the view. If you want to do that, you will need to do what this function does manually, by loading the view, getting the preview and then getting $view->get_title().

I've been doing lot's of experiments with the Google+ system over the past week and noticed a few people asking how to remove a comment from one of your posts. Here is how you do it:

» 1. Goto your profile tab
» 2. Click - The little grey arrow beside your post - 'The Options Menu'
» 3. Click - Report or Remove Comments
» 4. Click - The grey 'X' icon beside the comment to remove it

For the aspiring social media evangelist, budding marketer or savvy business owner wanting to get the most out of social media, then I cannot recommend enough the value out of taking your social media learning to the next level. To do this, join an online “group” and follow it up with a little human interaction.

The end of the financial year is fast approaching and it presents a great time to stop and look back on your social media marketing efforts for the first half of the year. When evaluating or measuring the success of these efforts a great place to start is by looking at the website statistics to see just how well you are (or are not) doing.

Yesterday finally saw the “invitation only” period for Google Wave end. Now everyone can dive into the latest Google Labs project and see what all the fuss is about?

The new logo (bottom) has of a more subtle drop shadow and less 3D shading on the letters. It exhibits lighter Reds in the O and the E and a warmer yellow for the second O. Google have also removed the “TM” from the end.

Out with the old

We acknowledge that social media is now a part of everyone’s lives. So where does a business draw the line on what employees can say and how they are allowed to behave online - both during work and private time?

Companies need to accept that Twitter users and bloggers, especially the higher profile ones, now have a solid journalistic voice when it comes to brand opinion. Reactions to this media are necessary and needs to be treated just as seriously as traditional mediums.

So you have built your website… You are fairly happy with it… You have updated all the content and put in some nice images. You’ve even done all the hard work ensuring all the keywords and meta tags are appropriate for search engines and are trying your best to keep the blog up-to-date.

Don’t forget about the importance of your own website when planning your social media strategy. I continue to see so many small business operators trying out social media marketing techniques only to visit their website and find something that must have been developed by ‘a friend who knows how to program the web’ back in the 90s.

Savvy consumers empowered with location aware internet devices are using emerging applications to explore new places to eat, drink, shop or simply visit within their city and then sharing this experience with the world.

It is Super Bowl week and although it might not have the biggest following in Australia, it is always interesting to see how the major companies with the biggest budgets decide to promote their products via the most expensive advertising space on the planet.

2010 has arrived and in line with tradition I have made several New Year's resolutions. Along with running three times a week, drinking more water and buying a bonsai tree, I have decided one of my main resolutions is to clean out my social media life.

Some serious statistics have emerged on the social networking usage of Australians for June 2009. Does your digital marketing strategy include targeting a social media audience?

Here is a creative and pretty amazing video I stumbled across. It is the PEN Story in stop motion. They shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production!

> http://olympus.eu/penstory/