Irish Fresstyle Kayaking site running on Drupal

A long time ago, I used to do a bit of white-water kayaking, and www.irishfreestyle.com was a regular site for me to visit.

Hook form alter saves the day..

As a site builder and themer, the biggest work for me is usually developing the theme for the project. But manipulating forms is tricky too.

Irish Science Gallery running on Drupal

The Science Gallery is an initiative of Trinity College Dublin and features regular science related exhibits.

Remedi - regenerative medicine institute at NUI, Galway

Screenshot of Remedi Homepage

Remedi is the regenerative medicine institute at NUI, Galway. The have just launched their new website, running Drupal 5 at www.remedi.ie.

Renvyle House Hotel

Renvyle House Hotel is a luxury hotel in the village of Renvyle, not far from Clifden in North East Galway.

Improving the Javascript

In the earlier postings, I had a relatively crude method of adding the javascript by calling drupal_add_js in my template.php file. The main problem with this method was that it included the map on every page regardless of when it was needed.

Improving the theme code

In an earlier post, I outlined how I used a node-type.tlp.php file to format the output for the event content type I had created.

Drupal learning experience

I've been using Drupal for about 2 years. I've built a good few sites, my flagship being www.athenryac.com. From the very beginning, I've always felt I've been using but a tiny amount of the power of Drupal.

Adding Microformats isn't that difficult

At the end of the last step I had managed to get the Geo microformat into the HTML markup. The next step was to get the hCalendar into the markup.

A working example

Well I finally have this thing working.
See example at
http://drupal5demo.cycletraffic.com/node/2
[correct at Jan 05 2008]

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