Archived Posts
Greg | April 20th, 2012
1 group site, 9 dealership sites, 7 brands, multiple data sources, 1 Drupal install.A little over a year ago we were approached by OpenRoad Auto Group, one of Canada’s premier auto dealer...
Evan | April 13th, 2012
Devel is a module I can't live without these days. In my opinion, it's an invaluable part of building an maintaining Drupal sites. It makes it incredibly easy to peek inside data structures,...
Chris | March 28th, 2012
If you use CKEditor as your WYSIWYG editor, you've probably, at some point, had to figure out which module to use to integrate it into your Drupal site. CKEditor or WYSIWYG? Without going into...
Codi | March 8th, 2012
At Fuse we work exclusively with Drupal. Every project starts with an assessment of what we need to do for a clients’ site and ultimately how we’ll do it with Drupal. We tend to sell our...
Evan | February 24th, 2012
Just today we were struggling with a Views concept that was leaving a couple of us scratching our head -- how do we get a list of nodes that share a taxonomy term with another node? At first I...
Codi | January 27th, 2012
Evan wrote a good article about the various high level options you have when looking at performing some lightweight drupal performance tuning. Good if you're just looking to optimize page load...
Evan | January 6th, 2012
Performance problems are a bit of an embarrassment of riches. It's great that your site is getting a lot of visitors, but are all those visitors slowing down your site or potentially causing...
Andre | November 18th, 2011
This is a quick post to go through some of the important factors to consider when applying security updates to your Drupal site. It's not always as easy as just downloading the updates and...
Niall | October 13th, 2011
Theming forms is always a little bit of a handful; designers like to create slick looking forms with rounded corners, drop shadows and custom looking form elements. Unfortunately it's not always...
Yeti | August 9th, 2011
My first ever Fuse blog post will focus on the Context module developed by the DC based Development Seed. With 29577 reported installs of the module, Context is quickly climbing...
Chris | November 5th, 2010
This is Part 2 of a 2-part series examining two different ways to arbitrarily ordering a View. Part 1 can be found here.
In part 2 of our arbitrary views ordering experiment, we're going to take...
Chris | October 29th, 2010
It happens every once in a while that you need to order your nodes arbitrarily. That is, sorted neither "ascending" nor "descending". An example of this might be an employee...
Yeti | September 20th, 2010
Today we will talk Form API. The API allows to expand your Drupal installation with highly extendable and secure forms. In this particular post I will show how to create a multi-step survey with file...
Andre | July 16th, 2010
For every new Drupal project there are many components and setup steps that are the same or similar to other projects. These steps are repetitive and time consuming. We needed to be able...
Codi | June 25th, 2010
We’ve got Drupal development environments at the push of a button. We’ve got remote server setups with automated scripts, hourly and daily backups of everything we could need and a swanky...
Yeti | June 23rd, 2010
Over the course of last few projects we had to incorporate a content slider in one way or another. This method of highlighting parts of the site's content has become increasingly popular, partly...
Codi | May 27th, 2010
Fuse recently released Time Tracker for Open Atrium. Time Tracker allows us to track time for cases and with the accompanying feature we can then report on the time entries for projects by group...
Adnan | May 3rd, 2010
Here at Fuse we argue from time to time about the best ways to do things in Drupal. Do we go with module 'x' or module 'y? Do we use views or custom code, etc... One of the more...
Niall | March 1st, 2010
Having worked on many Drupal sites with music players I have used a number of solutions but never quite found something that worked perfectly for me. Recently I have done a number of sites that...
Andre | February 9th, 2010
Ajax is becoming a standard, oft asked for feature in our Drupal sites. Clients like it because it makes their sites look 'slick'. We don't like it because it causes a few PITA's especially when it...
Codi | February 2nd, 2010
We’ve just recently made the switch from Active Collab to Open Atrium in the office for our project management and ticketing system. We made the decision to switch based on our needs and the...
