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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
Theming the User Login Block
Don't want people to look at your site and immediately know it is Drupal? Theme your user login block!
While it isn't always your top priority, customizing the look and feel of the login form helps maintain the integrity... more
Quick and easy Congressional District lookups for your CiviCRM contacts
By definition CiviCRM is used by many organizations in the political sphere. For those organizations working in the US one useful metric to have on your contacts is their congressional district. Up until now this has usually been accomplished with either custom code, or exporting your contacts,... more
Media Sprint in NYC a Success!
On October 23-24, Jonathan and I met with some of the top Drupal Media developers in NYC for a code sprint. The purpose of the sprint was to bring to fruition the vision of the ... more
Drupal Maintainability III - Self Documentation
It's been a while since I've done an article in the Maintainability series, but that's how the web business goes - alternating between insane activity and manageable momentum.
This time we're talking about... more
Stream Wrappers and You
This past weekend, a team of core Drupal developers, including Peter Wolanin (pwolanin), Andrew Morton (drewish), ... more
10 Tips for Theming Drupal 6 Forms
In the last month, I've been working on a project that requires a very custom look and feel for login/register/adding content forms, and worked what I've learned into a presentation. Now I've got a little running list of tips for whipping Drupal forms into shape.
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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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