You might find it desirable to place views template files into a module rather than the site theme. If the module is a feature which contains a view and is something that you might want to use on another site, then it makes sense to group the view and it's templates in the same module. The following article describes how to tell views that your module contains views template files and how to tell features that you want to tell views that the module contains views template files.

When you want even more control over an outputted field than display suite expert mode allows, you can put a theme function in template.php file. This article describes a neat design pattern for developers to use to experiment with a gives an example of how you might use it.

This is just a small post, but also a cautionary tale. From the moment you start working with Drupal and Javascript, you'll notice that the awesome jQuery library is thrown in for free. Not only that, but you've also got jQuery UI...

In this article we explain how to trigger an ajax event handled by Drupal 7 at any time and not just on a form submission or link event.

The above has long been a slightly confusing point since the dawn of the semantic web, when designers and developers moved away from using table elements. If you Google the above, you'll get a mixture of answers, ranging from absolute positioning to negative margins and use of line height. Yet, the simplest answer lies in the past. For a variable amount of text that you want to centre vertically and horizontally, you can use display: table-cell and vertical-align: middle...

CTools is a widely used Drupal API module which provides functional frameworks for modules such as Views, Panels, Context and more. In addition to its many uses, it has great JavaScript capabilities. Tutorials on the web only tend to describe how to fire off a CTools AJAX call when clicking on a link. What we will show you is how to fire off a CTools call on other events, such as on page load. To do this, you will need to create a custom module; our code assumes you've called your module 'mymodule'...

Basecamp (http://basecamphq.com) is a great tool for project management and we use it extensively. One of its tools is the ability to specify tasks (called to dos) and order those to dos into lists. Though you can set a required by date for a task, what it is missing is the ability to assign an effort value to those tasks and then provide the sum total effort of all tasks in a list. If you are on an agile team, then knowing the relative size of a task and the sum total of a group of tasks helps when planning the work to be performed in an upcoming iteration (sprint) or the total effort remaining in the backlog of tasks. At Deeson, we thought it would be a good idea to have this functionality so we added it via a custom script for the Firefox Greasemonkey plugin.