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Views Rotator Module

On this week's episode, Bob is proud to demo a new module planned and designed by us here at Mustardseed and coded by our good pal at Innovating Tomorrow. The Views Rotator Module makes creating a javascript rotator of any Views generated content extremely easy. We're excited about it and we hope you are too once you see how easy it is to use!

Custom Drupal Homepages

On today's podcast, Bob answers a viewer's question which is also one of the big mysteries to beginning Drupal-ers: "How do I create a custom homepage other than Drupal's default 'river of news' style display?" Today, Bob gives the bare bones basics on his approach to creating custom Drupal homepages.

Photoshop Reflections

On this week's episode, Bob takes a question that's semi related to web design and gives you a quick example of how it's done. We're talking about creating images (or text) with reflections in Photoshop. Simple stuff, but it may spark other ideas when thinking about how to design using Photoshop for the web.

Views 2 Overview

On this week's podcast, Bob gives a general 'lay of the land' on the Views 2 module for Drupal. Views 1 is powerful and totally awesome, but Views 2 will rock your world (after you stare at the new interface blankly for a half hour). This podcast gives you a quick tour of the new interface in order to get you started.

Basic CSS Layout

On this week's podcast, Bob goes back to basics. Many people are still trying to make their way from table-based html layouts to pure CSS layouts. This week's episode is about the bare bones basics of creating a 2 column, fixed width CSS layout from scratch. It uses very little code to start creating standards-friendly sites...let us know, in the comments, if it was helpful for you!

CCK Primer

In this week's episode, Bob digs deeper into the Drupal Content Management System by talking about an absolutly essential contributed module: CCK. This module allows us to create custom types of content for our Drupal site. Stay tuned in 2 weeks for a great companion podcast on this which will be about pairing CCK with Views 2.

CSS Sprites

In honor of the iPhone 3G release, today's episode starts with a look at Apple's main navigation menu and the method they use to build it...CSS Sprites! This episode was spawned by comments from a previous episode so keep that feedback coming...let me know what you'd like to learn about and I'll do my best to fake it!

Theming A Drupal Blog

In today's podcast, Bob dives into the world of Drupal theming by showing how to create a node-custom.tpl.php file and how to use print_r($node). The alternative to this is to do all the same stuff but use contemplate.module. Hopefully it makes sense...Bob recorded this one pre-coffee.

From Photoshop To HTML

In today's episode, Bob attempts to answer his most frequently asked question: "How do I go from my Photoshop comp to an HTML/CSS design?" There's no quick and easy answer, but Bob tries to offer his philosophy on how to look at a website as more than just a sliced and diced Photoshop image.

Drupal 6 Theme Basics

In today's episode, Bob shows you how to create a Drupal 6 theme from scratch by creating 3 simple files...yes, it's really that easy. He also starts using the ScreenFlow software which means you have to look at his face. Sorry!

jQuery and Drupal Basics

In this week's video podcast, Bob shows the basics of how to use the jQuery javascript library with the Drupal CMS. Don't forget to check out the companion audio podcast for this topic.

CSS Image Replacement

In this premier episode of the Mustardseed Media Video Podcast, Bob shows you how to replace any HTML element with an image in a search engine friendly and accessible way. Sweetness!