If you don’t know about embedding views you might want to check out this post first http://views-help.doc.logrus.com/help/views/embed. Update – This is now a module that you can download on d.o. Embed Views – Project page Have you ever created a view and the only thing you needed it for was embedding it somewhere on your …
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Drupal for Privacy Buffs: Configuring Your Drupal 6 Site to Work Without Cookies for Anonymous Users
A Drupal 6 site we are currently building has a requirement to not set cookies for anonymous users. In this blog post, I describe the hack-free solution we implemented for them that prevents Drupal from setting cookies. There are three steps we took to put this solution into place: Override Drupal’s session.inc file to disable …
Read more »The New York State Senate
After winning control of the New York State Senate for the first time in almost 50 years, the Democratic party turned to Advomatic to quickly deploy a new website powered by Drupal. There were many challenges to be overcome, and their requirements pushed the envelope in some areas such as permissions and work flow. In …
Read more »Drupal Maintainability I – Let Drupal work for you.
Here at Advomatic our bread and butter are site planning, Drupal development, and Drupal hosting. We host many of the large Drupal sites that you the Drupal community have created. Along with that we have recently started offering a drupal maintenance service. We offer security upgrades and ongoing maintenance for the sites that we host. …
Read more »New York State Senate, Advomatic, and the Politics of eGovernment
Last November, after most of the last century in the minority, the New York State Senate Democrats finally won control of the State’s upper chamber. With the majority came budget control and the power to make Senate-wide infrastructure choices – including internet decisions. This is how Advomatic helped change Albany. How we got from early …
Read more »Tales from the IE Freakshow: There’s limit on the number of CSS files it can load
The prankster that it is, Internet Explorer has thrown an issue at us recently that really had us scratching our head for a little bit. It turns out, IE 6/7/8 has a limit on the number of CSS files you can load. Anyone who’s worked on a medium to large Drupal site knows that you …
Read more »Calling it a wrap: A checklist for your theme’s finishing touches
Whew. It’s finally over. Months and months have gone by, and the project you’ve been working on is almost ready for launch. Normally, you’d be happy to just push the project to the back of your mind and say, “NEXT!”… Before that though, I think there are a few things we owe the client… little …
Read more »Zen and the Art of Drupal Maintenance
Recently while rummaging through my bookshelf for a good book, I came across Robert Pirsig’s classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZMM). One of the occupational hazards of web work is having your attention span reduced to that of a house fly and for some time I have guiltily been making New Year’s …
Read more »Applying imagecache presets to user profile pictures in Drupal 6
Here’s a mini tutorial on applying imagecache presets to user profile pictures. This isn’t hard to do — a breeze compared to what <a href="one had to do in Drupal 5 — but this write-up might still save someone a little time, I hope! While imagecache presets are easy to apply to imagefield images (this …
Read more »The Advomatic redesign process
Jack and I, co-designers/themers at Advomatic, were given no boundaries for our first redesign attempts. “We want to keep the Advodude and Advofont branding, but beyond that I’m open to anything,” Adam said. As designers know, the word “anything” is horrifying — and rarely true. But the ability to start out in left field and …
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