| Episode Title | Description | Originally Posted | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 send an email to a site admin when a comment needs moderation. |
August 13, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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" that is enabled by default. |
July 22, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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 have the Drupal calendar delete nodes once they're deleted from the feed? Check out this patch and give it a try. Episode Links |
July 14, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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. Links from this podcast: |
July 8, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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 sensitive pages using task handlers. He'll also talk about some pointsa for and against using this method for laying out your pages. |
July 6, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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. |
July 2, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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 powerful stuff, folks! |
July 2, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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 anything back to the Drupal community. |
March 12, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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 options for template_preprocess! |
January 9, 2009 | View Episode |
| 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 today...) |
December 12, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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 tutorial is all about using the CCK plugin called Embedded Media Field. We mash that content together with Views and we're watching video on our website in no time. |
November 21, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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 more than just images...it can show any data that Views can spit out in a carousel format! |
November 7, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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 Views API, FileField Podcast module had to change as well, so this is an updated version that shows you how to build your views with a new method and greater flexibility. |
October 17, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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 video podcast! |
September 25, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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 handling in as a CCK field. |
September 19, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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 more customized and beautiful than they could be before. |
September 11, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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. It's more Drupal goodness...Enjoy! |
August 28, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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! |
August 22, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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. |
August 15, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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. |
August 7, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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. |
July 31, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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! |
July 25, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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. |
July 18, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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! |
July 11, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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. |
June 27, 2008 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |
| 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 | View Episode |