Jack Haas
Themer / Designer
Jack Haas has been working on site design and development since his graduation from the Art Institute of Philadelphia in 2003. Shortly thereafter, he and a few other visitors of DailyKos.com conspired to create a website, BuyBlue.org, which would closely monitor the political contributions and financial ties of major corporate CEOs to the political parties which they support.
Through the Buyblue.org project, he learned Drupal theming and has been almost exclusively working on Drupal projects ever since. He does theming work for several high-profile recording entertainment artists, progressive organizations, and startups.
Notable changes to theming in Drupal 7
There are 50+ changes to the theme system in the move to Drupal 7 - that's a lot to consider when upgrading your theme from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7. As expected, some of the changes make theming more complex... but those changes can also free things up... more
A lesson in the usefulness of CSS sprite generators
The basic premise of a sprite image is to consolidate your site's graphics into one (or more) master image file. Then, with the magic of CSS's background-position property, you can shift the master sprite image around and only reveal the parts you want. Like a window. Some might even say like a... more
Faking imagecache for external images in Drupal
Imagecache is just one of those modules that we use on a consistent basis. There are usually many places within a complex site where the ability to crop and scale an image to a certain size comes into play. While this works great for images that you are storing on your own server, you run into... more
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