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SystemSeed is please to report that the new IMES imaging website was launched earlier this week. The site is built on the Drupal 7 core, and uses a number of standard contributed modules such as Views, Context and Display Suite, to accomplish its goals.

At SystemSeed, we have recently started using SASS and Compass to write our CSS stylesheets. For those that don't know, Compass is an open source CSS Authoring Framwork, which together with SASS can really take the chore out of writing CSS. In this article I wanted to talk about some of the things we love about Compass and SASS, and see how some of their advanced features can speed up the process of creating styles that could be used with Skinr.

User registration plays an important part in many websites. However, asking users to go through the registration process in order to gain their account can be a barrier for some, and off putting for others. We already have so many different accounts littered across the internet, do we really need anymore?

That is where services like Open ID and Facebook Connect come in. They let you use your existing user account from one site (say, Facebook) to sign into or create an account on another. So, how do you enable that functionality in your Drupal site?

Three years in the making... Over 5,000 issues fixed... Finally, it's here for the masses... Drupal 7 is the latest and greatest from the Drupal community. It is the most powerful and flexible release of Drupal to date, and will help push Drupal further into the outer reaches of the Internet.

Some of the most notable improvements include:

Today, SystemSeed is excited about the launch of a new Drupal site we delivered for a nobel peace prize award winning non profit organization (NGO), Doctors Without Borders. http://www.msf.ie

When working with AJAX, it's a common thing to inject dynamic content into an already loaded page. The idea is that it's possible to allow the user to interact with a page in a way that doesn't constantly require loading a new page like clicking on a normal link does. This is nothing new, people have been doing it for years.

As with most things, there is more than one way to link to a page on the internet. The same goes for linking to content within a Drupal system. You can use absolute URLs, absolute paths, relative paths, node ids, or even special syntax provided by one or another Drupal module. So what should you use, and when?

Consider these three URLs:

A lot of Drupal modules include their own CSS files, which provide default styles for any HTML rendered by the module. These styles may not suit your theme, and you might find that you must override most of them to get the look you want.

Rather than simply overriding all of these styles, it may make more sense to just completely remove the module's stylesheet and start from scratch in your theme.

This can be accomplished by messing around with the $styles page variable in Drupal's preprocesss_page() function in the template.php file.

The branding for Apple's iPhone is memorable with the various "there's an app for that" commercials. What Apple markets is the fact that its platform is enabled by an enormous list of apps that allow users to do anything they can imagine. It leaves customers with the confidence that the iPhone has the capability to provide everything they need in one place.