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<h2>Easily Embed TypeKit Fonts into your Drupal Website</h2>
<p class="posted">14th February 2011</p>
<p>To begin with, you will need to register for a TypeKit account - there is a free version if you just want to try it out.
Next, you'll need to create a kit that contains the fonts that you want to use on your website. I've used FF Tisa Web Pro.
Under …</p>
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<h2>Use Regular Expressions to Search and Replace in Coda or TextMate</h2>
<p class="posted">4th November 2010</p>
<p>As in the original post, I'd generated a list of node ID values, and needed to add structure the SQL update statment formatted in a certain way. However, I changed my inital query slightly to out put the same nid value twice.
SELECT nid, nid FROM node WHERE TYPE = 'blog' …</p>
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<h2>Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 2.1</h2>
<p class="posted">22nd October 2010</p>
<p>Today, I realised that I hadn't published the code that I used to create the total figures of galleries and photos at the top of the gallery (I said at the end of Part 2 that I'd include it in Part 3, but I forgot). So, here it is:
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// Queries …</p>
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<h2>Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 3</h2>
<p class="posted">13th October 2010</p>
<p>The next part of the new gallery that I want to implement is to group the galleries by their respective categories. The first step is to edit my original photo_gallery view and add an additional display.
I've called it 'Taxonomy', and it's similar to the original 'All Galleries' view. The differences …</p>
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<h2>How to Create and Apply Patches</h2>
<p class="posted">10th October 2010</p>
<p>Earlier this year, I posted a solution to <a href="http://drupal.org/node/753898">an issue</a> on the Drupal.org issue queue. Originally, I just posted the code back onto the issue, but have now created a patch that can easily be applied to any Drupal 6 installation. Here is a run-through of the process of creating and applying a patch. In this case, I made changes to the <code>user_pass_validate()</code> function that's found within <code>modules/user/user.pages.inc</code>.</p>
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<h2>The Inaugural Meetup for the South Wales Drupal User Group</h2>
<p class="posted">26th September 2010</p>
<p>If you do Drupal, and you're in the area, come and join us for the first South Wales Drupal User Group Meetup!
We'll be meeting in the communal area just outside of the SubHub HQ, at:
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CF10 5FZ
For more information and to signup, visit http://groups.drupal.org/node/95104.
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<h2>Review of the Image Caption Module</h2>
<p class="posted">20th August 2010</p>
<p>Up until as recent as last week, whenever I added an image into one of my Blog posts, I was manually adding the caption below each image and styling it accordingly. That was until I installed the Image Caption module.
The Image Caption module uses jQuery to dynamically add captions to …</p>
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<h2>Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 2</h2>
<p class="posted">17th August 2010</p>
<p>At the end of my last post, I'd finished creating the first part of the new photo gallery, but I wanted to change the dates of the published photos to reflect the ones on the client's original website.
Firstly, I'll refer to the previous list of published galleries that …</p>
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<h2>Create a Better Photo Gallery in Drupal - Part 1</h2>
<p class="posted">11th August 2010</p>
<p>Recently, I converted a client's static HTML website, along with their Coppermine Photo Gallery, into a Drupal-powered website.
Over the next few posts, I'll be replicating the process that I used during the conversion, and how I added some additional features to my Drupal gallery.
To begin with, I created my photo …</p>
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<h2>Review of the Admin:hover Module</h2>
<p class="posted">10th August 2010</p>
<p>Sorry for the lack of Blog posts lately, but my new job that I started a few weeks ago has certainly been keeping me busy! I've got a few more posts that I'm preparing content for, and I'll hopefully be back into my weekly-post routine before too long!
Today, I'd like …</p>
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