Thursday, Jul 26, 2012
Have you heard about the Mindful Employer Initiative? Nither had I until now. Launched in 2004, the “MINDFUL EMPLOYER® is open to any employer in the UK, whether small, medium or large, private, public or voluntary sector…and provides information, advice and practical support for people whose mental health affects their ability to find or remain in employment.”
When you have signed up to the Charter for Employers who are Positive About Mental Health, or if you are a supporting organisation who has signed their Partnership Agreement, you will then be able to use the MINDFUL EMPLOYER® Registered Trade Mark to show your commitment to the initiative. ...
Friday, Jun 29, 2012
Now that got your attention!
You’ll notice that I didn’t use the term Mental Health or Well-being in the title of this article. This was a conscious decision some may not agree with but unfortunately there is still a stigma attached to the issues of mental health, and many people feel uncomforatble talking about it. The word well-being has negative connotations of its own, including those who associate this term with a somewhat ‘fluffy’ or ‘soft’ approach, even conjuring up images of yoga, meditation and old-fashioned teambuilding exercises. ...
Sunday, Apr 15, 2012
Presented at DrupalCambs March 2012. The presentation looks at the fantastic Drupal Commerce module and how you can look to get up and running with it quicker.
It lists modules you can use and ideas to look at how to restructure the thinking of your e-commerce platform.
Thursday, Mar 15, 2012
Presented at Drupal Science Camp January 2012 in Cambridge.
Monday, Mar 12, 2012
After struggling with various adoptions for getting collapsible fieldsets to work within nodes for Drupal 7 I came across a final solution.
Make adjustments to template.php (or in a module if you prefer):
function THEMENAME_preprocess_html(&$variables){ // This function looks for node 1 and only adds the javascript for this. // However it can be extended in different ways if required if ($variables['node']['nid'] = 1){ drupal_add_js('misc/form.js'); drupal_add_js('misc/collapse.js'); } } In D7 you must also make sure that your legend contains a span with class fieldset-legend, and that your content is contained in a div with class fieldset-description, and that you include misc/form. ...
Monday, Mar 12, 2012
Following up on my previous post about collapsible fieldsets in drupal 7 nodes I recently wanted to just add some jQuery UI tabs to another node, and taking inspiration from my previous post about collapsible fieldsets in Drupal 7 nodes, made a little few edits to the template.php to achieve this as well. I actually made this to display vertical tabs from jquery ui, which is why the ui-tabs-vertical class has been added to the JavaScript, so if you don’t want that then just remove it. ...
Tuesday, Aug 16, 2011
So, it has been a while since I last blogged, probably because I have had a lot of work on recently, which certainly isn’t something to complain about. The latest little snippet I have for you is concerning webforms, and more specifically overriding the submit button with an image button.
Basically when I searched around drupal.org, I found a range of differing answers, none of which appeared to solve the problem for me. ...
Monday, Jun 13, 2011
Well this post has been a long time coming. Around 3 months ago I presented to Drupalcambs a presentation about extending the migrate module to enable you to map and import data using the fantastic migrate module. I say fantastic as the migrate module lets you do some awesome stuff when migrating.
Previously it had been hard to properly insert nodes (with files/taxonomies), taxonomy terms and users, however, utilising the new fields that Drupal 7 gives us has made it so much easier. ...
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Although the internet and websites are brilliant ways of finding information, there are a few unfortunate limitations (currently). Most of the time websites are restrained by size of screen and therefore what you put on your screen is vitally important. With so much data available, what people want is data that is related to what they are looking at. They want context to be IMPORTANT.
By using Panels and Arguments in Views through Drupal (6 or 7) you can make each of your pages (or pieces of content) contextual, with links, images, videos and even other parts of text around it remaining contextual. ...
Thursday, Mar 31, 2011
Post migration data clean up, basically, most of the time when you develop a site you do it either under the default site of Drupal (sites/$new_url) or you do it under a different site (mynewsite.willhallonline.co.uk) with the intention of moving it to its own domain name when you have finished.
Moving your data when you have finished on your new site is pretty easy. As most of the parts of your data are in the database, you can almost move to any file location and providing it is in the drupal root you will be fine! ...
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