webdev

Drupal Multisite on Bluehost

ryan — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:46:18 -0700

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

ryan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:11:35 -0700

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

Axman — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:40:25 -0700

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

Great collection of Illustrator tutorials

ryan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:32:06 -0700

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/

good collection of free icons

ryan — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:58:55 -0700

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/29/icons-for-your-desktop-and-ic...

data visualization/animation with XHTML and CSS

ryan — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:10:45 -0600

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

ryan — Tue, 01 May 2007 09:42:54 -0600

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

css newbie: positioning

ryan — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:11:21 -0600

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

budque — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:45:53 -0600

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

budque — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:16:17 -0600

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