Run Drupal

It is fairly easy to get a simple blog up and running using Drupal. However, one common annoyance among Drupal users who have switched over from other blogging platforms such as Wordpress, Blogspot, etc. is how Drupal shows blog summaries on the front page. By default Drupal’s front page stories look something like this: Read more »

Today I launched my new theme for this site. It is a modified version of a the CrystalX design from open source web designs. I broke it up and made it fit for Drupal. Then I added a bunch of changes and tweaks that fit with my style and what I wanted for this site. I'm pretty pleased with how it all turned out.

Today I added the search floater to run Drupal. A search floater is the search box you see up in the upper right corner of this website. By default if you enable the Search block in Drupal you can add it to a region. For example it could be added to the left content bar. However, I don't like this very much since it takes up a bunch of room. Instead I wanted the search box to float in the upper right of every page.

Adding this was pretty easy. here is the code I added to the page.tpl.php file Read more »