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Create a Facebook Recent Activity Drupal Module

Create a Facebook Recent Activity Drupal Module

Enhancing Drupal’s built-in functionality with new modules is one of the features that attracted a lot of developers to the platform and made it extremely popular. This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a Drupal module, using techniques recommended by Drupal gurus.

Allow your Clients to Update their Websites on the Go

Allow your Clients to Update their Websites on the Go

Today, we’re going to learn how to set up a website that can be easily edited via your iPhone and the Pagelime mobile app. If you’re unfamiliar with Pagelime, it’s an incredibly easy-to-use CMS that makes the process of editing a website as easy as possible.

What’s New in Drupal 7

What’s New in Drupal 7

Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) out there. To mark the new year, Drupal 7, the next major version of Drupal, is being released! In this article, I’ll walk you through some of the most exciting new features.

Apply the DRY Principle to Build Websites With ExpressionEngine 2

Apply the DRY Principle to Build Websites With ExpressionEngine 2

ExpressionEngine 2 is a wonderful content management system and arguably the most designer-friendly CMS out there, used by many well-known names, like A List Apart, Andy Clarke and Veerle Pieters. Ironically, however, it’s default configuration is poorly suited to use in a professional web development workflow, which usually involves multiple sites, servers, and developers.

This tutorial will show you how to customize ExpressionEngine 2 so you can hit the ground running with a rock solid yet flexible starting point that can easily deploy to multiple environments in minutes.

Turbocharge your ExpressionEngine 2 Education

Turbocharge your ExpressionEngine 2 Education

ExpressionEngine, as a platform and a community, has seen a lot of growth recently. While there are some nice roundups out there about EE resources I thought it was time for a more relevant and up-to-date article to hit the streets. If you’re getting started, this set of resources will get you moving in the right direction. After all, I’ve walked this path myself thus far.

A 15 Minute Surreal CMS Integration

A 15 Minute Surreal CMS Integration

You’ve already built your website, but how are you going to maintain it? In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to integrate your website with Surreal CMS in under 15 minutes. We’ll go over some of the “gotchas” and have you editing virtually any static website in barely no time at all.

Building your First ExpressionEngine Plugin

Building your First ExpressionEngine Plugin

No matter how awesome a CMS is, there will be times when you are required to meet a specific need that simply doesn’t work out of the box. Here we will explore creating Plugins for ExpressionEngine to meet such needs.

Creating a Google Map with ExpressionEngine

As Richard Tape has begun to show in his part 1 and part 2 articles on Becoming an ExpressionEngine Superstar, EE is a flexible and easy to customize CMS. Now that everyone has some understanding of how EE works, I thought I would take this opportunity to show a relatively real world example of creating a dynamic Google Map powered by EE.