Planet Drupal TV

This video shows how to use the magical symbolic link, or symlink. These are basically a handy *nix way to create shortcuts. They come in particularly handy if you want to organize code for your websites outside of the web server's document root and that is the example we use here.

The Drupal theme system is incredibly flexible and powerful - allowing "themers" to completely control the entire look and feel of your website. Mastering Drupal theming is the key to giving your website it's own unique, polished appearance. In this webcast, we'll watch the process of taking an HTML and CSS mockup of a website and turning it into a fully functional Drupal theme. Learn how to make your Drupal site match your organizational needs.

This command line video covers the three most common commands for compressing and archiving files, including how to get them back out again. Most commonly you first hit the need for these when you download a file and need to get it uncompressed. We'll cover the following commands:

• zip
• unzip
• gzip
• gunzip
• tar

The next video covering command line basics, this one covers common commands for dealing with files:

• cp
• mv
• rm

Fair warning: I say the word "stuff" way too many times in this video. Please just bear with it.

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This is the first video in a series that shows basic command line usage for *nix systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X, and on Windows, using applications like Cygwin. This video shows the following commands and spends the most time explaining how to move around your file structure from the command line:

• pwd
• ls (and ls -al)
• less
• cd
• man
• clear

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The video-only podcasts from Lullabot.com about the Drupal content management framework.

There are a lot of approaches for resizing images (ImageCache, Image, iMCE, and many others). However when building a site for a simple user (no previous web experience), I found that all of these approaches required too much effort on the part of the end user. Why can't a user just resize an image in their WYSIWYG, and not worry about the size of the image at all? That's the goal accomplished by the Image Resize Filter. Despite its extremely techie-sounding name, it's ridiculously easy to use.

Using IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a great way to have real-time conversations online. For many people who aren't familiar with it though, just getting into an IRC channel can be enough to deter them. This video will look at two quick and easy browser-based ways to access IRC, Mibbit.com and the ChatZilla Firefox extension. We'll look at how to get into the Drupal support channel (#drupal-support) and how to get both clients to remember the channels you like to use.