A few months ago I had to develop a Drupal 7 website that was supported by advertising.
After some research I realized that there were no current advertising modules for Drupal 7.
The Advertisement module is the de facto advertisement module for Drupal but a Drupal 7
version wasn't even under development.
So I decided to develop a new contrib module for featuring advertisements on Drupal 7 that was easy-to-use and provided

Integrating Drupal webforms with the popular CRM tool Salesforce is a common request from our clients. The concept works like this: Visitors fill out a contact webform on the Drupal website. That data is then transmitted to Salesforce, where it would be stored as a new record (or "lead" in CRM parlance.)

Normally caching pages for anonymous users is a good thing. There are times however, when a page or two needs to be excluded from the cache. Just such a situation recently occurred while I was working on the website for the Southern California Linux Expo.

As a conference website, there were the usual lists of speakers, sessions and a schedule page listing all the sessions in grid ordered by room and time. With over 100 sessions, that page was expensive to generate and since it didn't change much was a great candidate for page caching.

A website or web system may have various reasons to communicate with website users or with Drupal CMS users via email. This article provides an overview of Drupal modules required to support the following features:

• Create a contact form
• Notify administrator when a comment is submitted
• Notify subscribed users of content updates
• Comment by email; Create site content by email
• Enable HTML formatting in email message

Create a contact form

Slideshow is a popular feature on the front page of many web sites. Drupal makes it quite easy to build one. Here are the steps to build a Views-based slideshow in Drupal 7.

Meetings are expensive, and most people hate them. Most people hate meetings because most meetings are not productive and are run poorly. But meetings do not need to be hated. It is not hard to run a great meeting. However, it does require planning, an agenda, and clear goals.

Mobile devices are gaining incredible popularity when it comes to accessing web content. Web site owners and web developers are facing the challenge of having to serve all the needs of mobile users as well as web users. I have recently been given a chance to work on a Drupal site that serves web users and mobile users from one singe Drupal installation.

Drupal's WYSIWYG editor was once described to me by a colleague as "where the rubber meets the road" for clients. In other words, its the part of the website that your clients will be interacting with the most. You can spend hours or days perfecting a theme, configuring modules, and writing custom code to make a site as beautiful and useful as possible, but if the WYSIWYG editor does not work as advertised, it can ruin the experience for a client.

Over at Planetizen, we recently launched a project we're very excited about: Planetizen Courses. It's a major upgrade from our previous educational offerings, which were Moodle-based and mostly text. The new site is completely video-based, with instructors using screen capture software and cameras to capture their actions and their faces for a personal, one-on-one feel.