Drupal

Menu Firstchild with Superfish Menus - how to make them work in Drupal 7

From the Drupal menu firstchild issue queue:

In superfish.module (Drupal 7) on line #1012:

change:

$output['content'] .= l($menu_item['link']['title'], $menu_item['link']['link_path'], $link_options);
to:

$output['content'] .= l($menu_item['link']['title'], $menu_item['link']['href'], $link_options);

How To Upgrade Drupal 6.x to Drupal 7.x using Drush on Hostmonster

There is information on upgrading Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 using Drush here and here but it isn't quite as clear as it could be and doesn't attempt to address shared hosting environments (like Hostmonster) specifically.

Here's what I did go from D6 to D7:

1. Create new database for Drupal 7 (and assign a user to that database with all permissions)

Building a Drupal 7 Photo Blog using Drush on Shared Hosting

Register a URL with your favorite registrar and point the DNS to your hosting account. After you have set up the domain with your web host, create a new database and database user for your website-be sure your database user is assigned all privileges when you associate it with the database for the site.

If you haven't done so already, set up shell access with your host. You will probably have to write your host to enable it for your account (if your host doesn't allow jailed shell access, you would be better off with a different host...).

Views Galleriffic Gallery CSS

CSS for Views Galleriffic image galleries in Drupal

To get rid of the borders provided and use a thin black border instead:

#galleriffic .slideshow a.advance-link {
padding: 0;
border: 2px solid #000;
}

#galleriffic a.thumb {
border: 2px solid #000;
padding: 0;
}

#galleriffic .pagination a, #galleriffic .pagination span.current {
border: none;
}

Make the thumbnails align with the main image:

Drupal Galleria Photo Gallery Tips

The Drupal Galleria module works well out of the box, but like most things, can require some attention to get it to work under certain conditions. Here are a few workarounds and some basic CSS I've used on the module.

HTML Captions

Out of the box, Galleria doesn't support html markup in captions. Here's my solution:

In jquery.galleria.js go to line 311 and change .text to .html.

This is what you're looking for:

Building a Photography Portfolio Website in Drupal

forbesconrad.com homepage screenshotA portfolio website is something of a necessity for working photographers today. For many, dancing pixels have entirely supplanted the printed portfolios of yore while also functioning as online business cards and phonebook entries of sorts. A well-designed site should offer a solid venue for viewing work while also leveraging the inbound marketing opportunities the internet affords.

A number of firms offer custom and pre-packaged websites that balance the visual and technical needs of photographers with varying degrees of success, but none offer quite what I want at a price-point I can easily justify. Thus I've spent quite a great deal of time over the past few years working on designs of my own.

I've put together a number of ultimately ill-fated portfolio designs using static HTML, the Indexhibit CMS, Simpleviewer flash galleries, and a number of other tools. After using systems that were a bit over targeted or simplified for my tastes, I decided it was time to learn a CMS/CMF with more flexibility than I could possibly use. I settled on Drupal. Drupal isn't the simplest system - a clean install doesn't support image insertion without add-on modules, for instance - but it can be made to do just about anything.

My current website uses Drupal 6 with a number of add-on modules to get it to work the way I want. I find the end result attractive and fast to load while also conforming to search engine recommendations for code. Hopefully the availability of image alt-text and visible captions will make it equally attractive to search engine spiders and result in improved search rankings over time.

The website is easy to maintain and use; adding or replacing galleries and images is all done through a simple online interface and most aspects of the website can be changed without touching a line of code.

If you want to give Drupal a try, here are some of the things I've found useful in building my site. Drupal core is well documented on the Drupal website as are many modules, but others can be a bit troublesome to implement. Since I've managed to get everything below to work it must all be fairly user-friendly...