Level-up: for Beginning Themers and Site Builders

New to Drupal theming and site-building or still learning? Do you really want to know "Am I doing this right?" Or maybe you're tried of doing things the "hard way" or just not sure what are the bes...
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Meghan

Content Strategy is the Missing Piece

In lieu of the fact that I was unable to go attend Confab this week, I wanted to represent the Content Strategy movement by sharing a notion I've been thinking about for quite some time. I believe there are three key ingredients to making an amazing website: 

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Nica

A new theme layer for Drupal 8

About a year ago, Carl and I were doing a training in Washington DC. When we got to teaching Drupal themes to a bunch of qualified people with HTML, CSS and some PHP knowledge, we listened to our own explanations, looked at each other, and both thought "it shouldn't have to be this complicated!" Drupal 6 theme development was different than Drupal 5, and Drupal themes in general were still a beast unlike anything else, but with a little explanation, people got it, and people learned to appreciate Drupal 6 theme development rather quickly.
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Jennifer

Redesigning the Panels IPE

A few years back I worked on a project, which will remain nameless, where I redesigned the IPE (In Place Editor) for Panels. My dreams were crushed when I found out implementation was not possible for various techno-complicated reasons.

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Nica

How do I show Apache Solr results in Panels?

Dear Chapter Three,

I'm in Drupal 7 and have Apache Solr running on my Pantheon site and we need to customize the layout of the search results page. We've been using Panels for every other page, so we'd really like to use Panels here as well. We noticed that there is an existing panel page template titled: "search-apachesolr_search", but when we enable it our searches always return no results. What's the deal?

Thanks!
Ricki

 

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David

Choosing a WYSIWYG Editor for Drupal

I recently gave a talk at SANDCamp on how to set up a WYSIWYG editor, and after the session Graham asked me why my preference was for the TinyMCE editor over the CKeditor, or any other. I figured I'd write up my preferences here, in case anyone was wondering the same thing.

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Jennifer

How do I enable Panels styles?

Dear Chapter Three,

I recently had a project where I was tasked with selecting the "Tabs" style for a particular Panels region. I clicked the cog wheel for a particular region, but all I see is "Add content". What am I doing wrong? Is there a place to enable Panels styles? Do I need another module?

Cheers!
Jayson

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David