Lesson 64: Using og_panels on groups.drupal.org

This screencast shows how we initially configured our homepage on groups.drupal.org. You can use it as a guide to building out your own group, or for using the og_panels module (now part of the standard Organic Groups project download) on your own Drupal website.

Lesson 42: Fine-tuning the UI by Theming Forms In Drupal 6.0

This lesson builds on the previous lesson about theming/template files in Drupal 6.0 by examining the specific topic of forms. Taking control of the user-interface is key in building world-class websites and web-applications with Drupal, and the 6.0 release give you more power than ever in controlling your UI.

In this lesson we explore some options best practices and strategies for applying theming to forms.

Lesson 41: Theme Template Files for Drupal 6

Sunday, February 17 at 19:00 GMT (11 a.m. PST, 2 p.m. EST, 20:00 CET)

As part of Josh's deal with DmitriG to get him to cover Drupal 6.0's actions and triggers support (see lesson 40), He is going to do a lesson covering the advances in Drupal 6.0's handling of theme templates (those tpl.php files we all know and love).

In short, Drupal 6 brings a lot of the best practices that developed around template files in 5.0, and puts support for them into Drupal Core, as well as implementing a new standard in the core modules that contrib/custom developers can aspire to and emulate. The new omnipresence of template files radically simplifies the process of overriding the output of theme_functions, as well as making things more hospitable to designers.

The objectives for this lesson are to create a good introductory screencast to this concept, and then talk about some advanced functions/use-cases.