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If you haven't heard of Magento yet, it's the new open source ecommerce platform that's going to blow ubercart and oscommerce out of the water! A stable version has not yet been released but yet their sourcecode has already been downloaded over 100,000 times. The stable 1.0 version is planned to be releaed in the first quarter of 08, so it won't be long until we see magento shops spawning allover the web. You can check out the demo here

Magento is also going to be integrated with Drupal...

This article is the sequel to my first drupal
adsense article. This time we're going to put adsense blocks in between
teasers, on for example our frontpage. Same as last time, this does not require
any modules, nor does it depend on adsense, it works with any phptemplate-based
theme and with all sorts of ad code.

For starters, we're going to create a new block
region. If there is not a template.php file in your theme folder, create one
and open it up. See if there is a block
regions function, if there is, add a new
block to it: 'betwteasers' =>
t('between teasers')

If you didn't find a block region function copy this
code into your template.php file (this code should be in between <?php and
?> tags):

Part 1 - enhancing the
comment layout

When browsing the drupal showcase forum I notice that few people
take the effort the theme the comments, which is strange because comments are
not only a very popular feature, but also exceedingly easy to theme!. For this
comment theming tutorial we're going to spice up the comment template of the
default Garland theme with some additional styling and a date widget just like the one in my latest free drupal theme Delicious Fruit.

Lots of interesting stuff has happened to theming Drupal Theming in 2009. The emergence of various theme shops, a pack of new basethemes, and a big improvement in the overall quality of the themes.
Drupal themes are getting better and it looks like this is an ongoing process. Just a few years ago everyone complained that Drupal themes were boring and all looked the same… Joomla and Wordpress were thought to have much better designs available.
From the support emails I get from my premium themes product line I’ve heard from many clients that they’ve switched from Joomla to Drupal because they finally found a theme that matched their needs, so for some users the quality of themes can be a factor of paramount importance for their CMS choice.

Ok admittedly most developers will never have to use this trick, but if you ever use color module, or any advanced customization through the theme settings API you will want to do some theming on the theme settings page!

My premium drupal themes in fact do a lot of things with the theme settings form, to name a few:

Sooperthemes proudly presents: Beau, the most elegant Drupal theme is now available to communicate the prestige & quality of your business.

More info on the product page: https://www.sooperthemes.com/drupal-themes/beau

After voting on the design Style and purpose of the Politika free Drupal theme it's time to discuss modules and features.

What modules do you use on your Ubercart sites that benefit from custom theming and what modules do you think have the future. Post a comment if you got experience here!

You can also suggest modules that do not relate directly to ubercart but keep in mind that we decided do build an ecommerce theme so the module should be useful for a webshop.