Welcome to the personal website of Oliver Davies - a freelance Web & Drupal Developer based in Newport, South Wales.

Creating a Garland sub-theme and enabling the Color module

July 19, 2010 - 20:15 — Oliver Davies

For this site, I've been using Minnelli - a fixed-width version of Drupal 6's default Garland theme - along with the Color module to change the site's default colour set to Bluemarine as oppose to the standard Blue Lagoon.

Recently, I decided that I wanted to edit the page.tpl.php and node.tpl.php template files, but as I was using a core theme, I wasn't able to change these files. So, I created a copy of the Minelli theme directory, renamed it, and placed it into my sites/all/themes directory. As with the default Minnelli theme, my copied theme would need to use Garland as a base theme, to do this, I added the following code to its .info file:

Thanks (again)

July 14, 2010 - 01:00 — Oliver Davies

Only 8 days since my previous thank you, I am absolutely thrilled to announce that the total number of visits to the site has almost doubled from 574 to 1,026 since the 19th March.

So, I think that another round of thanks are in order to all readers, subscribers to the RSS feed, commenters, followers on Twitter, and fans on Facebook...

Thank you, and come back again soon!

An Overview of the Teleport Module

July 12, 2010 - 14:00 — Oliver Davies

As a heavily-reliant Quicksilver user on my MacBook Pro, I was glad when I found the Teleport module for Drupal (due to Elliott Rothman's tweet).

Drupal Planet

July 7, 2010 - 14:26 — Oliver Davies

I'm pleased to announce that my Blog posts are now being imported into the Drupal.org/Drupal Planet aggregator! http://drupal.org/aggregator/sources/664

My first aggregated post:

Quickly Adding a Taxonomy Term to Multiple Nodes using SQL

July 7, 2010 - 08:00 — Oliver Davies

In preparation for my Blog posts being added to Drupal Planet, I needed to create a new Taxonomy term (or, in this case, tag) called 'Drupal Planet', and assign it to new content to imported into their aggregator. After taking a quick look though my previous posts, I decided that 14 of my previous posts were relevant, and thought that it would be useful to also assign these the 'Drupal Planet' tag.

I didn't want to manually open each post and add the new tag, so I decided to make the changes myself directly into the database using SQL, and as a follow-up to a previous post - Quickly Change the Content Type of Multiple Nodes using SQL.

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