Monday night LevelTen kicked off our Introduction to Drupal Workshop here in our training room! It was a great success and we are already looking forward to the next session! For those of you who are unaware of this course please see the description below! We would love to have you join us, but rememebr to grab your spots fast as they are flying out the door. Priority also goes to those who attended round one!

Integrating user added images to a website is a nifty trick for a CMS. Drupal provides several different ways for users to upload images using their web browser and integrate them into content. The most common way to do this is using an image field.

Image fields give you a pretty intelligent way to upload and manage images. It can leverage Drupal's image styles system allowing you to specify a flexible array of image formatting and processing options. This gives you robust, automated control of how you image is displayed without having to use a photo editor like Photoshop.

Drupal is proving to be the CMS of choice for many museums, cultural and heritage institutions including the Smithsonian, the Louvre, and the Art Institute of Chicago, just to name a few. With no licensing fees and a wealth of documentation & training available online, it’s no surprise that non-profits are embracing this open source solution.

In the Drupal world it seems there is always another convention, camp or summit right around the corner that you are either attending, sponsoring or even hosting. Here are five tips when planning to attend a conference or convention.

1. Time Management

The ability to create custom content types is one of the reasons Drupal is so flexible. One of the most powerful ways to customize content types is by adding additional data, such as dates and locations to an event content type or price and images to a product content type.

Drupal can handle some pretty advanced publishing scenarios. The core installation provides a handful of settings that enable us to control many aspects of how nodes are published. In this tutorial, we dig into these controls and provide some use cases.

We start with the basics of using the published setting to switch nodes from draft to live. We then review how to work with the author information and conclude with a tour of Drupal's handy revision system.

Drupal makes it easy to add and edit content on a website. This tutorial is a quick run through of the fundamentals of how to add basic pages and articles and how Drupal's core node options work.

We also review Drupal's content list page which allows us to find content, do bulk operations on nodes and easily link to them for review or editing.

Drupal 7 is a remarkable engine for deploying next generation websites. If you are serious about building a top notch web presence, Drupal is the ultimate tool box.

It is free and open source, making it accessible to any size organization. It is extraordinarily flexible, like a Lego set for constructing websites, and can be used to build virtually any kind of website from corporate to non-profit, government, publishing, and social communities and much more.

I tend to spend a lot of time tracking down and fixing bugs on our websites. After doing this for a while, I developed some tricks to quickly diagnose the problem. I'm going to walk you through a recent bug report and fix that I had to do and how I fixed it. Unfortunately most bug fixing involves reading code though so if you aren't a programmer, you might get a little lost.

Last Thursday we had a bug report come in that the coupons on the website weren't working and that it appeared all the coupons had disappeared from the site.

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