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The Design 4 Drupal Stanford un-conference is this weekend, January 23-24 at the Open Source Lab of Stanford University. Since I live in Palo Alto, I really have no excuse not to go!

Take a quick look at the schedule of sessions. These are the ones I'm most interested in:

Drupal 7 is coming, like it or not! With the upcoming release, many theme designers are anxious to know what they'll have to do to migrate their existing Drupal 6-compatible themes to make them work with Drupal 7. Here are the changes I found most interesting:

One of the best ways to get to know Drupal is to find the useful parts and, well, use them! Here are the most popular modules in Drupal 6, according to the stats at Drupal.org.

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As mentioned in today's New York Times, Nanosolar has revealed the record efficiency of their low-cost printed solar cells and secured orders for $4.1 billion in orders for its first solar panels.

I love being able to use Webform to quickly whip up a form for a client, like for a web-to-lead page or a contacts database. One customization that clients almost always request is to modify the text on Webform's confirmation page. Unfortunately the way to do this isn't immediately apparent... in fact it's kind of hidden!

By default, most Drupal setups have an upload file size limit of 2 megabytes. That's enough for uploading most content like images and short Word documents and PDF files. But start uploading larger files like audio or video, and you'll quickly run into this frustrating upload limit. Some video files can be hundreds of megabytes! Here's how you can get around the limit.

Drupal's menu system is highly robust and really customizable through the GUI. One common complaint is that it doesn't highlight parent menu items when one of their children is selected, but this can be solved using Chapter Three's Menutrails module.

However, what if you want more custom control over your menu highlighting? One customer of mine wanted menus on some pages highlighted depending on the path. Good gravy, how do we do that? Here's one way.