Matt's blog

Everyone loves those amazing dropdown menu animations that only jQuery seems to be able to spit out these days.  The problem is most tutorials on the net assume you can modify your menu code at will. With Drupal, we have our menus generated for us and therefore, adjusting the code to add or remove a tag here or there just isn't possible.  For those of you who have struggled with adding jQuery animations to your Drupal menus, here's your solution.

My set up:

Like many of you, I wanted the proximity search function in the Location module to work on my site.  Turns out, it doesn't really work "out of the box", and I spent many weeks working on it but now I believe I have it working and wanted to share my success with others who may be disgruntled with the entire process.

Before you can even install Drupal, you have to have a place to put it.  If you have a server already then you're set but many who are new to Drupal are new to web sites and specifically, web hosting.  Unlike a host that can handle your basic HTML pages, Drupal requires a few more resources and that's going to narrow the field a bit.  And then there's always the issue of selecting a good host and not a dud that will leave you high and dry one day or just bad service.  In general, here are some good things to look for in a Drupal host.

After a long time of planning, the idea I had in my head for what seems like forever is finally coming to fruition.  I've always thought finding good local resources to learn Drupal has eluded many people who might otherwsie be interested in learning Drupal and frankly there's no reason why you can't learn Drupal.  I know when I was just starting out with Drupal, I wished for some resource to help me learn the basics of Drupal.  The idea behind Florida Drupal Training is this isn't just a "one and done" kind of class.