The Message module is a general logging utility tool which you can use to log any type of activity on a Drupal website. I’ve already written about how you can use Message module with Rules. If you’ve never used this module I would recommend that you read "Log Site Activity with Message and Rules" first, so you can get a good introduction on how to use Message module.

In this article we’ll look at creating messages programmatically via Entity’s entity_metadata_wrapper() function. Finally we’ll look at how to load and display a message log. This is useful if you need to manually add a message to a template file.

Check my latest video on using Field collection in Drupal 7. For an in-depth article go to Power Site Building With Field Collection.

Need to highlight code within a Drupal site? Check out this video on setting up the GeSHi Filter in Drupal 7. For an in-depth article go to Highlight Code With GeSHi Filter.

The Message module is a general logging utility tool that site builders can use to create user friendly logs. Let’s say for example, you want to create a log for all new “Blog” posts and then display a list of logs on a website via a block within a sidebar column. Message module makes it extremely easy to do all of this without writing a single line of code.

I just created a screencast on using the Tab Tamer module, hope you enjoy. For an in-depth article go to Control Tabs Using Tab Tamer.

Check out this video on setting up the Linkit Module in Drupal 7. For an in-depth article go to Link To Other Pages With Linkit.

In Drupal 6 fieldsets allowed site builders to group form items together. If a client asked for the ability to attach extra supporting data to a content type, you were stuck creating another content type and then create a relationship between both types using a node reference field. In Drupal 7 you would simply create a field collection for the supporting data.

Here is a video on setting up multi-site aliases in Drupal 7. For an in-depth article go to “Drupal’s Multi-site Aliasing With sites.php“.

What is the best way to link from one piece of content to another on the same site? You could hard cade URLs in the body of the text or you could use the Linkit module. The Linkit module gives you a pop window with an easy interface which allows you to search for content using an autocomplete field, then simply insert a link into a text area.

If you're writing some type of article or blog post that's displaying code, a syntax highlighter can be very useful. I searched through Drupal's modules and found a few, Syntax Highlighter, GeSHi Filter and JavaScript Syntax Highlighter. Both the "Syntax Highlighter" and "JavaScript Syntax Highlighter" are written in JavaScript, the code highlighting is handled by the browser.