With Drupal 7's release around the corner, it is important to get Drupal websites away from version 5.x. To quote D.O:"Drupal 5 will no longer be maintained when Drupal 7 is released." Earlier this year, I moved ebmtools.org from their Drupal 5 install to use the more powerful and secure Drupal 6 version.

The Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM)tools network uses Drupal to connect and inform researchers, users, and providers through their website. In their own words, EBMtools promotes

Recently, while working at requirements for a Government client I was tasked with finding a way to create rss feeds for site wide searches. Here, I've decided to share this solution with the wider community.

Last week Dr. Sameer Verma invited me to give a presentation on using Drupal's CCK & Views modules at an all day open workshop he was giving to promote FOSS use in preparation for Software Freedom Day 2009 here in Jamaica. It is very nice to see Drupal being recognised as a substantial member of the FOSS comunity.

Here we are confronted with a situation where the default markup of a form on your site needs to have a different look. For instance when we need the form to be located in a block(eg. in a sidebar) rather than in the main content region of a page. Theming overrides are necessary here to make the form input fields shorter in order to fit within the sidebar region. This is accomplished by editing the template.php file and then creating a corresponding xxx.tpl.php file for the theme.