On this episode, Bob tackles the new module Display Suite and it's associated modules. Display Suite is a set of modules which gives extra power to your node, comment, user, and views theming while not undermining the Drupal templating system. Download and install "DS" and it's associated modules and see what the future of Drupal 7 theming is starting to look like...
Drupal Video Podcast
Yes it's true. We love Drupal and we love teaching about it. Dig into these videos and learn a little something about how we build sites here at Mustardseed. And don't forget to pass our name along to any church folks you encounter who need a website!
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Views Arguments |
On this episode, Bob talks about Views arguments. For a non-developer, arguments get really confusing really quickly. By showing two examples of how to create pages and blocks using arguments, Bob hopes that someone out there isn't confused and learns a little something about the... | March 5, 2010 | watch it! |
Context |
In this episode, Bob presents a very simple but very powerful module to help you manage sections of your Drupal site. The context module allows complex grouping and organizing of content in ways that were previously difficult to accomplish. Dig in and enjoy! | February 25, 2010 | watch it! |
Node References |
On this new episode of the Mustardseed video podcast, Bob talks about why a modular approach using Node References is the future of Drupal. He puts together CCK, Views, Node Reference URL, and Views Attach to give you an idea of how powerful this solution can be. Mustardseed On Twitter |... | February 18, 2010 | watch it! |
Triggers and Actions |
On this week's podcast Bob gives a quick overview of Triggers and Actions functionality in Drupal 6 core. This 'cause and effect' function allows you to automate your site a bit to make it more interactive and save you some time managing it. This podcast shows an example of how to use these to... | August 13, 2009 | watch it! |
Organic Groups Basics |
On this podcast, Bob dives into the basics of the Organic Groups module. Some people are confused about what OG is and how it can and should be used, so he'll talk about how to set it up, enable notifications, and theme the page so it's more exciting than the standard "river of news"... | July 22, 2009 | watch it! |
iCal Events as Nodes |
On this podcast, Bob shows how to import any iCal feed of events into your Drupal site and displaying them in a Views-driven calendar on your site. (This means importing your Google or Yahoo! calendars or any other calendar system that puts out a feed in iCal format) This is tasty stuff! Want to... | July 14, 2009 | watch it! |
CSS Grids In Drupal |
CSS grids are amazing tools for building websites that take alot of the tedius work out of laying out pages and content on your website. On this podcast Bob talks about what CSS grid libraries are, how they work, and gives some tips on ways that you can implement them into your Drupal themes. | July 8, 2009 | watch it! |
Panels 3 Basics |
On this week's podcast, Bob will show you the basics of version 3 of the Panels module and give an overview on when and where this module can help you lay out some cool and interactive pages. He will look at the basics of how the module works, find some bugs, and show you how to have context... | July 6, 2009 | watch it! |
Crazy-Awesome Taxonomy Pages |
In this episode, Bob will blow away your current perspective on Drupal's core taxonomy pages. By default, they're boring lists of content, but with a little magic and a few template overrides, these can be the coolest pages on your site. Please Note: A few follow up comments below point out that... | July 2, 2009 | watch it! |
Views Row Theming |
On this podcast episode, Bob shows you a really powerful and robust way to theme your Views output using a set of under-documented variables. This method will give you faster load times on your views and will give you amazing flexibility and node-style layouts of each of your views. This is... | July 2, 2009 | watch it! |
Filefield Inline Images |
On this weeks podcast Bob shows you an alternative and forward-looking approach to inserting inline images into your Drupal nodes. Using Filefield Insert and Image Resize Filter we can leverage the power of CCK (and in the future, Media module) to drive our inline images. | May 28, 2009 | watch it! |
CVS For Themers |
At this year's Drupalcon in Washington D.C., lots of Drupal themers got together and tried to identify the major stumbling blocks that allow us to use the CMS (and it's community tools) effectively. One that was mentioned over and over was the CVS system which is required if you want to contribute... | March 12, 2009 | watch it! |
Calendar Module |
On this week's podcast, Bob gives you another option, besides Event Module for doing event listings in Drupal. This solution focuses on the Calendar and Date modules. | February 13, 2009 | watch it! |
Twitter Module |
On this week's podcast, Bob shows a simple module that offers great social networking integration to your website. It's the Twitter module and is easy for anyone to setup and integrate onto their site. | January 22, 2009 | watch it! |
Creating Variables |
On this week's Mustardseed podcast, Bob returns from his holiday hiatus to show you how to make new variables available in your theme template files. This will help you clean up your theme templates and get used to doing all theme logic in the template.php file. Don't forget to check out the... | January 9, 2009 | watch it! |
Static Theme Conversion |
On this week's podcast, Bob tackles one of the most asked questions: How do I convert a static html/css template into a Drupal 6 theme? We cover the basics in about 10 minutes but it's just the tip of the iceburg. (forgive Bob for his scatterbrained approach...not enough coffee before recording... | December 12, 2008 | watch it! |
Views Theming |
On this week's podcast, Bob addresses something that lots of you have asked about in the past few weeks: Views theming! He'll talk about when and when not to use Views theming and what, exactly, you're trying to accomplish when you use it. All on this week's Mustardseed Media video podcast! | December 5, 2008 | watch it! |
Build A Video Gallery |
On this week's podcast Bob shows you how to create a video gallery from start to finish...all in the span of about 8 minutes. The method shown is perfect if you don't want to get your hands dirty with hosting your own files, wrestling with ffmpeg, or worrying about huge bandwidth bills. This... | November 21, 2008 | watch it! |
Theming User Profiles |
On this week's Mustardseed Media Video Podcast, Bob gives you the basics on how to theme user profiles using Drupal's core Profile Module. He talks about print_r, the $account variable, and puzzles over why the user-profile.tpl.php doesn't mention a crucial element. All this week! | November 14, 2008 | watch it! |
Views Carousel |
On this week's Mustardseed Media Podcast, Bob shows off another module commissioned by Mustardseed. It's the Views Carousel Module for Drupal 6 (and Views 2). This module is a cool way to spice up your site without having to write any custom javascript. Also, don't forget, this can be used on... | November 7, 2008 | watch it! |
Podcast With Drupal 6 |
In this week's episode, Bob tackles FileField Podcast module and shows you how to Podcast with Drupal 6 (and without audio.module). This approach gives us lots of flexibility because it's purely a CCK/Views setup. What's that? Bob already covered this topic? True, but with the change in the... | October 17, 2008 | watch it! |
Pathauto |
On this week's episode we talk a little philosophical about assuring that your site architecture is reflected in your content URLs (and why this is good for your site visitors). Then, we dig in and make it happen automatically using the Pathauto module in Drupal. | October 3, 2008 | watch it! |
SWF Tools |
In this week's episode, Bob has changed his ways. He no longer robs liquor stores, beats up little kids, or uses the jQuery Media module to display podcast audio and video on his websites. Instead, he shows how awesome, flexible, and easy SWFTools is to implement. All on this week's Mustardseed... | September 25, 2008 | watch it! |
Imagefield and Imagecache |
On this week's Mustardseed Video Podcast, Bob shows you how to deal with images in your CCK content types. There's always a million ways to skin a cat in Drupal, but this method has been consistant and maintained nicely over time. He couples Imagefield with Imagecache to get some simple image... | September 19, 2008 | watch it! |
Module Theming |
On this week's episode, Bob tries to extend your theming chops by moving beyond the typical page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php theming techniques and explores the often-untouched land of module theming. Understanding how to theme module output in Drupal 6 will go a long way towards making your sites... | September 11, 2008 | watch it! |
Block Theme Module |
On this week's podcast, Bob shows that he's fallen in love with yet another Drupal module. This time, it's the Block Theme Module. This week you'll see how the module works and how it makes it so very easy to make all your blocks look differently by throwing one convenient switch in the Drupal UI... | August 28, 2008 | watch it! |
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... | August 22, 2008 | watch it! |
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... | August 15, 2008 | watch it! |
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... | August 7, 2008 | watch it! |
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... | July 31, 2008 | watch it! |
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... | July 25, 2008 | watch it! |
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... | July 18, 2008 | watch it! |
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... | July 11, 2008 | watch 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. | July 3, 2008 | watch it! |
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... | June 27, 2008 | watch it! |
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! | June 20, 2008 | watch it! |
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. | June 13, 2008 | watch it! |
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! | June 7, 2008 | watch it! |
