This is a sequel to the post Becoming friends with the Drupal Color module — Part 1. Here we'll check out the advanced (and the coolest) parts of the Color module. If you are not already familiar with Color module, I suggest you take a look at Part 1 since I'm not going to cover the basics in this posts.

You might have seen the example.sites.php file on the sites directory when setting up your Drupal installation. This is your new friend when setting up a multisite installation on Drupal.

The the g' old way of doing this was to create symlinks for each of the site into the sites directory. Like this:

Gmap module is a very nice tool for drawing markers and objects to an online map. You can for example list your company's stores in a view and then pipe that view straight as a map with markers on correct places. How cool is that? But what if you have many overlapping markers for different stores and you want to decide what store you want to display on top. The Gmap module doesn't offer anything for this, so we had to implement this one by ourself for a client.

After three years of work and participation from thousands of open source developers, Drupal 7 is finally here! Mearra is already working on implementing large sites on Drupal 7 and we have switched to the new version in our Drupal trainings about three months ago.

Drupal 7 is definitely here. So – join in, download Drupal 7 and see for yourself why D7 is definitely the largest leap in the history of Drupal!

One of the cool new things in Drupal 7 is the ability to easily add new “View modes” for nodes. View modes are available for other entities like comments also, but I’m gonna only cover the nodes for this time. 

Before, Drupal had only two “hard-coded” node view modes, the full node view and the teaser view. These two provided us just enough flexibility for most simple content listings, but quite often we needed to turn to Views in Fields mode to get more flexibility. By flexibility in this case I mean displaying the same content in different ways in different contexts.

There are hundreds of thousands of existing Drupal sites out there and many people are asking if they should upgrade to Drupal 7. I know many of our customers have been asking this. Unfortunately there is no simple answer, so let's have a look at what you should consider before deciding.