Here at Advomatic our bread and butter are site planning, Drupal development, and Drupal hosting. We host many of the large Drupal sites that you the Drupal community have created. Along with that we have recently started offering a drupal maintenance service. We offer security upgrades and ongoing maintenance for the sites that we host. …
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Tales from the IE Freakshow: There’s limit on the number of CSS files it can load
The prankster that it is, Internet Explorer has thrown an issue at us recently that really had us scratching our head for a little bit. It turns out, IE 6/7/8 has a limit on the number of CSS files you can load. Anyone who’s worked on a medium to large Drupal site knows that you …
Read more »Calling it a wrap: A checklist for your theme’s finishing touches
Whew. It’s finally over. Months and months have gone by, and the project you’ve been working on is almost ready for launch. Normally, you’d be happy to just push the project to the back of your mind and say, “NEXT!”… Before that though, I think there are a few things we owe the client… little …
Read more »Zen and the Art of Drupal Maintenance
Recently while rummaging through my bookshelf for a good book, I came across Robert Pirsig’s classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ZMM). One of the occupational hazards of web work is having your attention span reduced to that of a house fly and for some time I have guiltily been making New Year’s …
Read more »Applying imagecache presets to user profile pictures in Drupal 6
Here’s a mini tutorial on applying imagecache presets to user profile pictures. This isn’t hard to do — a breeze compared to what <a href="one had to do in Drupal 5 — but this write-up might still save someone a little time, I hope! While imagecache presets are easy to apply to imagefield images (this …
Read more »The Advomatic redesign process
Jack and I, co-designers/themers at Advomatic, were given no boundaries for our first redesign attempts. “We want to keep the Advodude and Advofont branding, but beyond that I’m open to anything,” Adam said. As designers know, the word “anything” is horrifying — and rarely true. But the ability to start out in left field and …
Read more »Firefox Add-ons for Productivity
It’s difficult to imagine working on the web without Mozilla’s Firefox and its bounty of fantastic, community-contributed add-ons. Everyone knows about Firebug and a myriad of other add-ons that have cut development and debugging time by huge percentages. But even if you aren’t a coder, there are some fantastic, lesser-known add-ons that will that boost …
Read more »Everything is Miscellaneous
At the Open Media Camp in Denver yesterday, Kevin Reynen (kreynen) got things off to a great start with Overview of Metadata Standards for Video – Why doesn’t it work like a Library? We discussed the difficulties of even agreeing on a standard set of genres for tagging video, from how to decide what genres …
Read more »Media Sprint at Open Media Camp in Denver!
Make sure to attend the Media Sprint Update Panel and join the Media Sprint 2009 at Open Media Camp in Denver, on April 18-19! The presenters of this panel, including Aaron Winborn (aaron), Arthur Foelsche (arthurf), and Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg (Alex UA), will discuss the ongoing efforts of the Media Sprint by the Drupal Media working …
Read more »What to use for test email addresses
I often come across test email addresses that people have created and I’m alarmed. It’s common to see something like yesyes@nonono.com or test@test.com. But beware, these are real domains. Consider the following example. You are working away on your site and you need to create a test admin user and you use something funky like …
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