Drupal 5.3 was released early this morning, fixing a number of security issues and a number of other small bugs (all the fun feature stuff is only being added to Drupal 6!). We will be having a play with 5.3 on sites still under development to make sure its not going to cause any problems, before begining the roll out onto our client's sites some time this afternoon. For more information check out this http://drupal.org/drupal-5.3
We are pleased to be working with the excellent Paul Evans on a number Drupal based sites. Computerminds are looking after the back end, and phptemplate themeing, allowing Paul to concentrate on what he does best - producing beautiful looking sites!
Adding new custom regions (areas into which you can place blocks) to a Drupal template is dead easy ... Simply add the following to your template.php file : function YOUR_THEME_NAME_regions() { return array( 'content_top' => t('content top'), 'content_bottom' => t('content bottom'), 'left' => t('left sidebar'), 'right' => t('right sidebar'), 'content' => t('content'), 'header' => t('header'), 'footer' => t('footer'), 'new_region1'=>t('A new region') ); } Make sure you change the YOUR_THEME_NAME bit to match the name of...
Computerminds are proud to be members of the Drupal association and encourage all our clients to contribute as well. The Drupal association was established to help the Drupal community with funding, infrastructure, events, promotion and distribution. It has already made a significant difference to the invaluable drupal.org site with contributions of some lovely new hardware.
Drupal 5.2 was released last night, containing a couple of quite importants ecurity patches and some other minor bug fixes. http://drupal.org/drupal-5.2 We will be upgrading our client's sites over the next couple of days
We are very pleased to announce that we will be working with Surrey based CTN (charity trustee network) to revamp and refresh their current Drupal site. The new site will feature the usual gammit of community bits and bobs, as well as paid premium membership. The site is being designed by our good friends over at DiverseAmbition and will hopefully go live in eary July.
Were very pleased to announce that Computerminds will be supporting the excellent mashup* events, starting with the release of the new site http://www.mashupevent.com Held once a month in London, the mashup* events aim to bring both technology and business knowledge together with a healthy dose of fun and relaxed networking (and the odd free bar). We particularly like the fact that the events are some of the least geeky tech events we have been too...
Booktribes continues to grow, and we get another (albeit quite small!) mention in the Guardian http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,,2107361,00.html#article_continue
Just a quick one this - you will probably find that when you use Tinymce and the standard Filtered HTML input format, all your text bunches up and doesn't break correctly. Once solution to this is to use Full HTML - fine for the admin user but not so good for your average member of the great unwashed. So, the solution is to goto admin/settings/filters and configure the "filtered HTML" filter. You then want to...
There is nothing worse than having your browsing flow interrupted by a login screen that does not return you to your origional destination. Drupal manages to get around this problem by allowing you to append a "destination=XXX" query string parameter to the 'user' login URL. This is excellent and works well, except what happens if the user clicks the register tab while on the login screen - the destination query string is lost and the...