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Using Theme Developer and Firebug to Debug Drupal Themes

There are several tools that that makes designing for Drupal much, much easier.

In particular, we recommend the Theme developer module and also Firebug.

Many of you may know about Firebug already. It's a browser tool that allows you to inspect any CSS, HTML or JavaScript elements.

Think of Theme developer as a Drupal-specific version of Firebug. Using Theme developer you can click on any element of your Drupal site and get a breakdown of how it was built.



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How to Use Advanced Template Manager for Joomla

Advanced Template Manager is the latest extension from the prolific developer, Peter van Westen.

If you've used Advanced Module Manager, that allows you to display any module according to very flexibile set of criteria. Advanced Template Manager does the same thing for templates.

As with all of Peter's extensions, there is both a free and a Pro version.



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Theme CMSs Are the Most Popular Way to Build a WordPress Website

WordPress themes used to have specific focuses. You could find themes for restaurants, schools, corporate sites or for even more narrow niches.

However, in recent years we've seen a shift towards multipurpose themes, led in particular by authors at Themeforest.net. These multipurpose themes come with 1000's of features that enable them to cover a wide range of businesses and topics.

Some of the themes have so many features that I refer to them as a "Theme CMS". It's almost like installing a second CMS on top of WordPress.



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How to Link to PDFs and Other Files in Joomla

One of things that many people use their websites for is sharing documents.

In this tutorial, we''ll show you how to easily share documents in Joomla.



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How to Integrate Drupal and Shopify

One of the most frequent questions we get asked by OSTraining members is this:
"Is there an easy shopping cart for Drupal?"

Don't get me wrong. Drupal Commerce is a great system, and we have a detailed video class explaining how to use it. But no-one would describe Drupal Commerce as easy, and Ubercart is equally difficult.

There are few other valid e-commerce options. One, called Basic Cart, works great but doesn't actually have any payment options.

So in this tutorial, we'll explain how to use Shopify.com and Drupal together. Shopify is a robust option and can reduce the burden of maintaining an e-commerce store.



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New Video Class: WordPress Donations

One of the most important areas of any not-for-profit website is donation management.

The Give plugin is a robust donation management solution for WordPress.

Give allows you to build simple or complex donation forms, send confirmation emails, and manage the entire donation process on your website.



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How to Create a Glossary View in Drupal

When you first install the Views module, it comes with several example views.

One of the most popular examples is the Glossary view, which takes a large amount of content and organizes it all by the first letter of the content title. This is useful in a lot of situations, especially when you're creating a directory of businesses or people.

Here's what the Glossary view looks like:



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How to Build a Responsive Slideshow in Joomla

Lots of Joomla users want a responsive slideshow on their site's homepage.

Creating a responsive slideshow is really easy, and we're going to show you how with the Simple Picture Slideshow plugin.

If you use Simple Picture Slideshow, your slideshow can be managed directly from your Media Manager.



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Find the Node ID of Drupal Content

Several times, our members have asked about finding the Node ID of individual pieces of Drupal content. The Node ID is the primary key in the database for Drupal content and it's useful in many situations.

If you don't have the Pathauto module installed, this information is easy to find. By default, the Node ID is directly in the URL of the content.

However, if you have the Pathauto module enabled (as most sites do) the Node ID can be hard to find. Here's the solution ...



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Import and Export Data With phpMyAdmin

Whether you run your site on Joomla, Drupal, WordPress or anything else that uses PHP, there's a good chance you've come across phpMyAdmin.

phpMyAdmin is an easy way to browse, interact and modify your data. You can even export and import it. That's what Topher shows you how to do in this video.

If you need to move your whole site, or just export small snippets of your data, you'll find this video to be very useful.



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