webdev

Drupal Multisite on Bluehost

Posted by ryan on Mon, 02/11/2008 - 18:46 in

The following outlines my setup of Drupal in a multisite fashion on the webhost Bluehost. This lets you serve sites from one Drupal codebase with each site having its own database, domain name / URL, and themes/modules/file store. You can even go a step further with Bluehost and allow different people FTP access to just their Drupal site.

101 CSS Techniques of All Time: Part 1

Posted by ryan on Mon, 01/14/2008 - 09:11 in

Here's an article that blows through 101 very popular and oft-requested CSS techniques. A very handy list for the budding CSS/Web developer: http://www.noupe.com/design/101-css-techniques-of-all-time-part-1.html.

ico Photoshop plugin

Posted by Axman on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 14:40 in

http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/

Hey I'm sure you guys probably have this, but it deserves a post...saved me a lot of hassles....make ico files in Photoshop with this plug in.

Here is one i made for the AKgeeks...took about 5 minutes...hopefully Ry will post it up here

http://www.rockalaskarecords.com/images/geekicon.ico

Ax

Great collection of Illustrator tutorials

Posted by ryan on Tue, 12/18/2007 - 10:32 in

For those of you learning, or maybe even who already know Illustrator but want to pick up some mo' tidbits, here's a great collection of 65 tutorials: http://www.blogcreativo.com.ar/65-tutoriales-de-illustrator/

data visualization/animation with XHTML and CSS

Posted by ryan on Wed, 05/09/2007 - 07:10 in

This looks like a very creative technique for basic visualizing of data without having to pipe it through Flash.

First go here: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/misc/data-visuals/faike_js.htm and notice the Current Progress graph. Reload the page and notice how it animates.

clickheat heatmap

Posted by ryan on Tue, 05/01/2007 - 06:42 in

Here's a nifty thingy. It gives you a heatmap of where visitors to your site clicked.

css newbie: positioning

Posted by ryan on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 08:11 in

OK I'm an old school web-builder from back in the day before CSS existing. Now all these sites are table-less, but I'm behind the curve. So I thought I'd start a thread on learning CSS.

Protect Web page displayed email addys

Posted by budque on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 14:45 in

Just wanted to pass on a trick I use to foil spambots from harvesting email addresses that are displayed on my web pages.

Prove you are a robot

Posted by budque on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 14:16 in

I am trying out a new design in my email forms that will prove that the user filling in the form is a robot rather than having the user type in funny looking letters from an image to prove that they a