Most non-customized Drupal themes come with basic gradients or stale background colors, and for good reason. The idea behind themes is to provide a somewhat generic design for the masses - providing a basic layout and canvas from which designers can improve.

Here are a list of Photoshop Brushes and Patterns that can help spice up your bland Drupal theme. If you’re not familiar with adding Brushes or Patterns to Photoshop, there are step-by-step instructions on the web or you can follow the instructions below:

1. Download Brush or Pattern and save it to your computer.

For those of you who woke up to a flurry of frustrated customers or shocked that your website images were not displaying...Some shared hosting companies including Hostmonster and Bluehost have disabled symlinks (symbolic links) used by Drupal and other content management systems to display images. Hosting companies choosing to disallow symbolic links have changed the .htaccess file, which ultimately breaks your linking structures.

I recently had an issue displaying jQuery Media full-screen videos in Drupal 6. After a little research, reading some threads and some trial and error, I was able to successfully display videos in full-screen mode. The fix ended up being quite simple, but there didn't seem to be a lot of documentation so here it is.

My Situation:

This fix assumes that you you're using jQuery Media module and successfully playing the video through JW Player of similar.

The Quick Fix:

1. Go to: Administer > Configuration > jQuery Media
2. Select Advanced Settings

Drupal, and its contributed social modules, is the perfect system to create a powerful, feature-rich, online social community or networking website, while limiting development expenses and time to get up and running. Here are the best Drupal modules, default and contributed, for social networking that LevelTen has utilized on our community websites:

MadeLoud.com is a music community based website that offers several social networking features for Indie Artists and Fans. The site serves two primary purposes - to promote and sell independent musicians’ music and merchandise, as well as encourage Indie Fans to listen to, review, and to buy the artists’ music and merchandise.

No, one of the benefits of the CCK is that it manages the dabase tables for you including table creation and collumn management. When you add a new field via cck, it automatically generates one or more collumns, depending on the field type you selected. Those collumns will get added to a table called "content_type_[contentTypeMachineName]".

If you have multiple content types and wish to add similarly named fields for each, there are two items to look out for. When creating a field of the same name on two different content types you have two options:
1. Add exiting field

Recipe for creating a node module skeleton:
1. Create three files using the code snippets at the bottom of this post

• foo.info
• foo.module
• foo.theme

Note: replace foo with your module name. If this is for a specific project, use project codes in the format [pc][nodetype]

2. do the following search and replace on all three files
"[pc]foo" -> [pc][nodetype]
"foo" -> [nodetype]

foo.info code:

; $Id $
name = "Foo"
description = "Foo posts."
package = 
dependencies =

foo.module code: