Drupal Design Favorites

This site is maintained using the Drupal content management system, the system that provides the best overall power and activity among Open Source solutions.  In building and updating this site over the past 8 years, I have seen Drupal evolve from a very simple solution into the robust framework for collaboration that it is today.  I am taking this space to list out some of my top code favorites for use with Drupal.

Modules:

1. Project Vote Smart api
2. Calais and Calais api
3. RDF
4. FCKEditor

Tutorials

1. Ventura Cottage Squares, Mailhandler and More
2. Front-page Squares
3. Introduction to Auto-Tagging (Calais and RDF)
4. How to add images via Mailhandler using Email
5. Nice set of tutorials.  I particularly like the jQuery / Media tutorial.

 Themes

1. Nice packaged themes at Adaptive Themes.
2. To generate themes from PSD files PSD to CSS is not bad as a jump start.
3. Or, a better but more expensive way is to use Artisteer, which is Windows only.

As a general design tip, we should design for a general audience by designing at an 8th grade reading level or below.  Here is a nice discussion of this need for the medical community.

Here is a print out of the $user variable for username: .
stdClass Object ( [uid] => 0 [hostname] => 38.107.191.105 [roles] => Array ( [1] => anonymous user ) [session] => [cache] => 0 )