A Guide to Drupal eCommerce and Site Development

Having just spent way too many days debugging my SSL / https configuration, I thought I'd save many of you my headache. Note that there are two Drupal modules that handle this for most people. I, however, was not so lucky. I have suspicions why neither of those modules worked for me, but to really understand the issue requires more time than I'm willing to devote to the issue. The two modules are:

The Panels module is my favorite method for creating complex page layouts. Apparently, many web site developers  using Panels seem to have issues getting layouts with equal heights in their columns. There are at least two easy methods to solve the issue, both of which require understanding a bit about the CSS divs, classes and id Panels creates to contain your Panels columns. This same idea can also be generalized to a method for equalizing the heights of any page elements.

This is a super-quick tutorial, since I am assuming anyone interested in combining Java Script and Drupal is already familiar with coding. Getting Java Script running in Drupal is just a slight variation from the typical setup; rather than this:

In this super-brief tutorial, I give you the necessary CSS to insert into the appropriate CSS file of your theme to remove that "Homepage" field from the Anonymous Comment input form:

 
   /* hide the homepage field on the comment forms */ 
   #edit-homepage-wrapper { 
        display: none; 
    } 

Welcome to the final section of the tutorial on configuring your Drupal site with special access permissions. The first section of this tutorial explains Drupal's permissions and user roles. The second section walks through creating user roles and setting their permissions. The third section covers installing and configuring the Content Access module. In this final section I'll show how to create a new content type, give it special access permissions, and finally rebuild permissions to enable this special configuration. 

Welcome to the second section of the tutorial on configuring your Drupal site with special access permissions, enabling you to create pages only privileged users can see. The first section of this tutorial explains Drupal's permissions and user roles. If you are new to Drupal, I suggest you read that first. In this section we will create and configure two new user roles.

Welcome to the next sub-tutorial in my How to Customize a Drupal Web Site series. In this sub-tutorial I’ll be showing how to locate places in your theme’s files controlling different aspects of a Drupal page, how to experiment interactively with changes, and how to finalize those changes. If you are just starting with my tutorials, and new with Drupal, I suggest you visit the link above, it goes to where I give an overview of Drupal customization.

Anyone creating a website with Drupal should be comfortable locating, downloading and installing modules to their site. Locating a theme or module for a particular need is somewhat more difficult, simply because of the large number of themes and modules available. In this sub-tutorial I will outline some generally useful information, such as:

• Some tips for smarter searching with Google;
• An overview of useful Drupal search terms.