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Up and running with Sass in Drupal 7

SASS stands for Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets, and are a powerful way to streamline your Drupal theme's CSS. Based on CSS, the learning curve is not too steep for a seasoned front-end developer. In this post, you'll get an introduction to the basics of SASS and how to get your development environment up and running.

The technologies I discovered in 2012

It has been a busy year and with busy years comes a lot of new knowledge and perspective. What better time to reflect than at the end of the year.

Nick SchuchOperations Lead

PSR-0 and Class Autoloading for Drupal 7

Although Drupal 7 has some great class autoloading features available, in the last couple of years there have been some moves in the PHP community to create some more standardised methods for autoloading. Once such move is the PSR-0 standard, central to Drupal 8, and you can use it in your Drupal 7 projects right now.

Senior Developer

PNX selected to speak at DrupalCon Sydney 2013

Congratulations to the PreviousNext team members who had their DrupalCon Sydney 2013 sessions selected! With the complete list of sessions now officially announced, it's shaping up to be the biggest Drupal event to hit our shores.

Marketing Coordinator

Building Maps with OpenLayers in Drupal 7

You would think by now that maps would be all sorted out in Drupal 7, you would be wrong. Maps in Drupal, or anywhere, have never really been sorted out. Maps are a complicated tangle of moving parts. Starting a new project that needs maps can be a challenge. Fortunately, there is a solution with OpenLayers.

Senior Developer

Collaborate, innovate and empower with aGov - open Drupal for .gov.au

aGov is a common, open platform for digital publishing, providing real incentives for public sector agencies to collaborate and innovate.

With a broad feature set covering compliance basics, such as WCAG, AGLS metadata, and basic security improvements, aGov also has some very nice features which help agencies to meet those requirements in a more effective way. PreviousNext Drupal Consultant and public sector specialist Chris Skene explains how...

Drupal consultant

Drupal 7's positive integer validator

Ever written custom code to check if your textfield is a positive integer? I sure have. Then I found an easier way.

Nick SchuchOperations Lead

Responsive Layouts with Zen 5.x

Using Zen 5.x as a base theme for DrupalCon Sydney's website introduced me to a new approach to theming that other Drupal themers may find useful. The theme makes responsive Drupal layouts easier by combining the old Zen sidebar magic with Sass and Compass by way of Zen Grids. You can further improve your theming process with new functionality in Sass 3.2.

Front-End Developer

aGov - The open Drupal platform for Australian Government

PreviousNext releases a free Drupal CMS platform specifically designed to meet mandatory government website requirements.

Owen LansburyCo-Founder & Chair