This entire post came about due to a great screencast by Addison Berry about using secondary menus. If you haven't already seen the screencast or you don't understand how to make the children of the primary navigation show up as the secondary navigation then you must watch the screencast.

I'll come out and say it, before watching this screencast, I didn't even know using the children of the primary navigation as a secondary menu was even possible.  I had always used the secondary navigation for things like footer navigation and created individual menus for the various sections of the site and placed each block.

The other day I heard about Cache Router, a newish module for Drupal that allows multiple ways to cache content in a more scalable manor than the default Drupal caching. Since the Memcache module has been lagging behind for Drupal 6, I decided to give the new module a whirl on Developer Karama (using the Memcache method).

Today I was working on a site when I noticed my node paths were incorrect for some of my nodes. Now I heavily use Pathauto in conjunction with Taxonomy to define my paths for everything on the site and this issue hasn't come up before. I swear, I didn't change my Pathauto rules ([termpath-raw]/[title-raw]), so what changed?

Yesterday I received an email from one of my clients asking why the blocks weren't showing up on a 404 page (he went to a url that did not exist). Now I had always known that Drupal doesn't show blocks on the 404 page but I had no idea why and no idea of how to re-enable blocks on the said page.

Just the other day I was tasked with creating a 90+ field Webform in a Drupal site I was creating. While the number of fields was a little daunting creating the form was easy once I got past a few sticky points. Hopefully you will have a much easier time creating your own Webform if you follow these tips.

Congratulations to the MindComet team on launching it's latest Drupal site http://www.disneychildrens.com/ !!

At this months Florida Drupal meetings a lot of questions came up about how we create websites. Now these questions weren't really about the technical aspects of creating the site, they were more about the planning and the high level steps we take.

Our next meet-up will be on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 from 1 to 5 PM at MindComent's offices (directions) in Altamonte Springs, Florida (Orlando area). This will be a 2-topic meeting with Mike Anello covering panels and Andrew Riley covering Taxonomy w/ Pathauto.

More Info: http://groups.drupal.org/node/13978

I used to dread changing the domain name of a site running Drupal in a multi-site setup.  After changing the folder name all of my attached files would be broken, possibly some of my links would be broken and I would have to delve through thousands of records in the database to hopefully fix the broken files and links.  Now I don't dread it at all since I figured out I could get around all of these problems by using symbolic links.

Per Yahoo it's best to move your Javascript calls to right above your closing body tags since downloading scripts block parallel downloads which causes your page to take longer to download/render. (1) Now I'm not going to go into any metrics to prove this statement, we'll just have to take Yahoo's word on it.