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Create a Flip Effect with jQuery to Show Images and Text

Have you seen websites where photos of the staff members flip over? You hover your mouse over the picture of the staff member and the image flips over the reveal the staff members name.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016 - 03:20

Custom Layouts for Webforms in Drupal 7

One of our users asked for a way to customize the layout for his Drupal 7 webforms.

Webforms Layout is a module that extends Webform features by providing more control over the design.

Friday, January 22, 2016 - 00:18

Entity Reference Views Help Drupal Content Creators

Entity Reference Views are one way you can make life easier for Drupal content creators.

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 22:24

Create a Database with cPanel and phpMyAdmin

Creating a database is one of the common tasks before building a new site with WordPress, Joomla or Drupal.

Luckily, phpMyAdmin and cPanel makes this process easier than ever.

Tuesday, January 19, 2016 - 02:03

Use Openlayers to Build Drupal Maps

Openlayers is a Javascript library that allows you display maps from multiple different sources. It works with Mapquest, Yahoo Maps, Stamen, Google Street Map, Open Street Map and more.

Monday, January 18, 2016 - 21:25

Don't Use Pixel-Width Values in HTML Tables!

Be careful when using tables in your website, specially when width value uses px. Why? It can breaks the responsive design of yoru site, mainly in mobile.

In this post, I'll show you how to fix this issue.

Saturday, January 16, 2016 - 04:24

Build Your Own Image Scraper with PHP

There are various ways to scrape information from other websites, including JSON and RSS. However, it's also possible to build a scraper using PHP.

Friday, January 15, 2016 - 03:27

Show Drupal Content Only With Terms of Specific Depth

It is possible to allow Views to show only content that has child terms from a taxonomy?

Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 23:18

Show Only Specific Levels of Taxonomy in Views

One OSTraining member asked us this question:

How can I set the filter criteria so that Views shows only the second level in of a taxonomy?

Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 19:55

Use Views to Show Content Created by Drupal Users

One OSTraining member wanted to allow site admins to show the content created by different users.

For example, the admins wanted to see all the articles written by a particular user, or all the orders they made in the store.

Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 02:32