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Blog Archive: November 2013

Drupal & Servers

Drupal: Sending Confirmation Emails from Your Webform

Today, I encountered a problem that at first seemed like a pain, but in the end, turned out to be simpler than I thought. I needed to send a confirmation email to the submitter of a webform, letting them know that their email had been received, along with some plain text instructions.

A while back, I wrote about how to add a contact form to Drupal, and today I want to share with you how to send a confirmation email to the submitter.



This is…

Drupal & Servers

How To Upgrade Drupal 6 to Drupal 7: Step by Step

Before proceeding with the upgrade, it's important to make a backup of your Drupal 6 site. This includes both the database and the files. This will ensure that you have a restore point in case anything goes wrong during the upgrade process.

Once you have made a backup, it's time to put your Drupal 6 site into maintenance mode. This will ensure that no users can access the site while you are upgrading. To do this, go to the site maintenance page…

Drupal & Servers

Configuring Nginx to Display 404 Page for Unconfigured Domains and Server IP Address

In today's digital age, it is crucial for website owners to have a properly configured web server.

This not only ensures a smooth and seamless user experience but also protects the website from potential security threats.

One common issue that website owners face is incorrectly indexed links in search engines like Google. In this article, we will provide a simple guide on how to configure Nginx to display a 404 page for unconfigured domains…

Drupal & Servers

Improve User Experience with Image Hover Effects for Drupal Thumbnail Images

Drupal is a powerful and flexible content management system that enables you to create visually appealing and engaging websites. One way to enhance the visual impact of your Drupal site is to add image hover effects to your thumbnails.

In this article, we'll explore how to use Drupal to create image hover effects for thumbnails.



Step 1: Install and Configure the Image Hover Effects Module

To create image hover effects for your Drupal…

Food blogger

Dauphinoise potatoes

Time by time, I like to experiment with food preparation, this time I decided to make a Dauphinoise potato, inspired by BBC Good Food recipe. 

As it might happen, it happened this time as well - I didn't stick to BBC food preparation methodology.

What did I do?

I sliced potatoes, made a bechamel sauce. Took a pan, made the first layer with bechamel sauce, few rows with sliced potatoes, again bechamel sauce, salt, and pepper, again sliced…

Drupal & Servers

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 3 - Better administration

Recently I started a tutorial series - How to build a Drupal site from scratch. In part 1 I'm talking about planing a site. In part 2, I'm showing how to make a subtheme from Bootstrap theme. 

Before digging deeper in site customization, I'm willing to show how to tune a little bit up Drupal administrative tasks. By default (out of box) Drupal is not very user friendly for making admin related tasks. But it can be easily…

Drupal & Servers

Building a Drupal site from scratch - part 2 - Applying a subtheme

Recently I started a tutorial series - How to build a Drupal site from scratch. In part 1 I'm talking about planing a site. In this tutorial I'm giving a real example for building a tourism companies web site for real customer.

In part we learned that it's a wise to create a content type, which best describe products/services we gonna add (in our example tours).

So I have added few tours to our site:



As you can see from picture above, I'm…

Drupal & Servers

Display YouTube videos on Drupal site with YouTube field module

Recently I started a new topic series - documentaries, where I publish documentaries I have watched and recommend to watch others. I write a brief description of what each documentary is, and then I embed a YouTube link to show a video on my blog. 

How To Embed YouTube video in Drupal 8 (CKEDITOR)



But lately I started to think of creating my own Screen-casts, and the idea of embedding a video on content didn't satisfy me anymore.

What…

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