We are looking for people – Drupal enthusiasts – who want to learn and experiment with Drupal and develop, build and maintain  community website using Drupal. We started Diveheads.com in late 2007 together with copywriter Blok Oh. The goal is to provide a better diving community, experiment with Drupal communities and look into ways to monetize [...]

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Drupal is an excellent framework to build a community member site, but it isn’t that easy. It involves a lot of steps, knowledge, theming, tweaks and configurating to make things work well and look good. Which modules should I use to achieve certain functionality? How do I put it all together? Drupal is a very [...]

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If you are using your website as a marketing tool, chances are high you will also want to send newsletters to your users as part of an e-mail marketing campaign. There are a lot of ways to do this. You will find companies who are specialized in e-mail marketing or others who offer on-line services. Okay, [...]

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There is a lot going on to improve the UX for the next Drupal version. I didn’t get a chance to play around with Drupal 7 until yesterday. We had to enable PDO support (the new database object layer) but now it works like charm. One of the reasons we wanted to take it out [...]

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Mobile internet use is growing rapidly and the question ‘howto create a mobile version of my (Drupal) website?‘ is heard more and more often. Drupal offers different ways to provide mobile content for your users. Strategies The people at Siruna made a great slideshare to explain different possible strategies to handle mobile versions of your website. They [...]

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Here’s a short snippet howto create custom result counters with index for your views in Drupal 5 and Drupal 6. An example of this code could result: Showing 21 – 30 of 46 results. A very common usage, but not available out-of-the-box in Views 1 or 2. You will need to theme a bit using some code snippets. [...]

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Drupalcon Paris’ website got a redesign and registrations are now open. The earlier version raised a lot of interesting discussion. According to some people the design was sexist. Frankly I hadn’t even noticed, but I think everybody will be happy with the new design. Anyway, when I clicked around the site I noticed some great functionality [...]

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I got home yesterday and noticed a lot of buzz going on about something called Google Wave. At first I thought it might be yet another Google service but 5 minutes into the video presentation I was hooked. This is  indeed how on-line communication was meant to be. But you really should watch the video [...]

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So you built a super-easy-user-friendly website for community members. But despite all your efforts to make everything go as smooth as possible there is still one thing which remains a bump in the road: logging in. Of course you offer a ‘remember me‘ checkbox and hope your users will let the browser remember the password, [...]

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Big cheers to the folks at developmentseed and especially Young Hahn for creating this amazing admin module which drastically improves the usability of the Drupal backend. This is, in fact, a module and includes a admin menu, contextual administration links and an admin theme. It’s a very nice preview on how Drupal’s 7 backend might [...]

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