Card designs are very popular all over the web. You see them on social media sites and online shops.
They are so popular as they present information clearly and understandably.
This tutorial will explain how to create a card layout with CSS Flexbox.
Control User Access to Restricted Pages in Drupal 8 with Rabbit Hole
Sometimes, you would want to restrict access to certain pages on your site to users who do not have a specific role. You would want users to upgrade to a paid plan. Or you would just want to collect some more information from them.
The Rabbit Hole module controls what should happen when a user clicks the link to the entity or enters a URL in the address bar. It redirects such users to another page in the site.
The Rabbit Hole module works with different types of entities. They could be nodes, users, taxonomy terms and files, to name a few.
This tutorial will explain the basic usage of this module. Let’s start!
New Book Update: Local Web Development With DDEV Explained
For many years, web developers have relied on WAMP, MAMP, XAMPP and other local development tools. However those tools have some severe limitations, particularly if you're working in a team environment.
There is a better way to do local development. We've just updated"Local Web Development With DDEV Explained" which shows you how to do local development in a way that matches modern development workflows.
Mike Anello is a long-time member of the Drupal and web development communities. In this book, he recommends replacing WAMP and MAMP with DDev-Local, a Docker-based system.
DDEV-Local is an open-source local development environment for PHP-based projects. It provides a robust and flexible setup for platforms such as Drupal, WordPress, and TYPO3.
How to Embed a Google Docs Viewer in Your Drupal 8 Site
The Embedded Google Docs Field allows the site administrator to change the display of normal file fields, making them viewable directly on the node with the help of the Google Docs Viewer.
This tutorial will explain the usage of this module through an example.
Let’s start!
Hint: Google has to be able to locate your site on the web, in order to embed the viewer. This module will not work in a local environment.
CSS Flexbox #13. Create a Navigation Menu with Flexbox
The navigation speeds up the search of your users within your site. With CSS Flexbox, it is quite practical to code a basic navigation bar without the need of using floats or complicated pixel calculations.
Keep reading this tutorial in order to learn how. Let’s start!
CSS Flexbox #12. The flex-flow shorthand property
In past tutorials of this series, you learned about the flex-direction and the flex-wrap properties. They determine the orientation of flex items.
They also determine if flex-items wrap over to the next line or stay on the same line according to the available space in the layout.
The flex-flow shorthand property puts both properties together. Let’s take a look at an example!
Introducing the Flexbox Explained Book from OSTraining
Say "hello" to the 13th book from OSTraining. We're delighted to announce the launch of "Flexbox Explained" by Jorge Montoya and Steve Burge.
Flexbox Explained is a fun and enjoyable introduction to Flexbox.
Over the last fifteen years, Steve and Jorge have worked as web designers. It's been a fascinating time.
For many years, the most popular way to design websites was with frameworks such as Bootstrap and Foundation. We needed these frameworks because they added many essential features. The core features of CSS weren't enough for modern web development.
Create a Content Type Pager in Drupal 8
The Drupal 8 Pager module provides simple pager navigation in a block to ease up the navigation between nodes of the same content type or between nodes with a common taxonomy tag.
This tutorial will explain the usage of this module with an example. Let’s start!
CSS Flexbox #11. Shorthand Default Values
In the last tutorial, you learned about the flex shorthand property. It groups three flexbox properties in one in the following order:
flex-growflex-shrinkflex-basis.
This property can accept up to three values, however, you can enter only one or two values and the CSS Flexbox specification will assign the default missing value to the corresponding flex items.
Let’s check this out with an example!
A Beginners Introduction to CSS Flexbox
The CSS Flexbox Specification is a CSS module that gives you great flexibility when creating layouts.
CSS Flexbox is an elegant and lightweight approach to layouts. It can be used without installing an extra frameworks or libraries.
Flexbox is different from the regular layouts because you can lay out items inside a flex container in all possible directions. This means that your layouts can be organize top to bottom, bottom to top, left to right or right to left.
How to Give WordPress Users Their Own Content to Edit
One OSTraining user asked us if it was possible to give everyone their own content in WordPress.
For example, is it possible to create a page for each staff member? The idea is that each staff member could login and update their own page (but not be able to update anyone else's page).
It is possible to this in WordPress thanks to the PressPermit Pro plugin.
How to Build User Profiles With Fields in Drupal 8
By default, a Drupal 8 user account collects only very basic information about the user.
And, most of that information is not visible to visitors or other users on the site.
Fortunately, Drupal makes it easy to modify and expand this profile so that people can add useful information about themselves such as their real name (versus a username), address, employer, URLs, biography, and more.
Give a Unique Look to Your Google Maps in Drupal
Google Maps don't look appealing or pretty by default when you embed them in your Drupal content. Nor do they always nicely coordinate with your site look and feel.
What if you found a way to give them a custom design? For example - your own color? In this tutorial, you will learn how to give your Drupal Google Maps a custom style with the Styled Google Map contrib module.
How to Log In to Drupal Without the Login Block
This is actually quite a common question from our students. They start building their Drupal site. Then they go to work with their blocks or menus.
Then they accidentally disable the "Log in" menu link. There is no "Log in" link displayed on the site anymore. Neither for them nor for their visitors.
In this short tip, you will learn how to login to your Drupal admin page in such situation.
How to Integrate Telegram Chat With Drupal 8
Telegram is an easy to use free chat application that is rapidly winning fans all over the world.
There is a Telegram plugin for WordPress but there is not yet a Telegram module for Drupal.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to integrate the Telegram app with your Drupal 8 site using JavaScript from Re:plain.
There's a New Version of the CSS Grid Explained Book
CSS Grid is revolutionizing webdesign
For the last two decades, we've relied on CSS to lay out websites, but it has always been missing some key functionality. We've relied on workarounds such as tables, floats, and positioning.
CSS Grid is different and better.
CSS Grid allows you to create a grid-based layout system, using columns and rows. You don't have to use any workarounds. You don't have to use different hacks for different browsers. You don't have to install any extra frameworks.
Because it's such a useful tool, we wrote CSS Grid Explained. CSS Grid Explained is a fun, practical introduction to CSS Grid. This was the 10th book from OSTraining, and also one of our most popular. So we've been working on big updates for the book.