Make Drupal faster!
Nobody likes slow websites. The challenge is to keep as many features as possible, while keeping the page load time low.
Articles about the Drupal content management system (CMS).
Nobody likes slow websites. The challenge is to keep as many features as possible, while keeping the page load time low.
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black." - Henry Ford
We see it all over the web, development companies that create sites in nearly every language and technology. Do they really claim to be experts in everything? How do they find the time to keep up with all the advancements and changes for so many systems?
Some do's and don't which can save you a lot of grief.
Most of us use Webform quite a bit to quickly create forms in Drupal. It comes with a whole lot of features, but what if you need to add an additional step when the form is submitted?
Modal forms are very popular nowadays. While they can be confusing at times they aren't difficult to set up if you have the right tools.
There are several modules available for Drupal 7 that would serve our purpose. I've found Simple Dialog to be the easiest to use and will demonstrate that here.
One of the most time consuming and critical tasks in Drupal development is styling the output. Drupal modules generally come with a default style sheet which can be both a blessing and a curse.
Want to have a "block" element move up and down the page when the page scrolls? Easy. I'll show you how to get this up and running with jQuery Scroll Follow and Drupal 7.