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Review of Flash with Drupal by Travis Tidwell
A review of another addition to Packt Publications now quite extensive Drupal-related catalogue I first tried Flash when it was in its Macromedia Version 3 incarnation - it had so many bugs that it...
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Using CSS3 box-shadow to create a glow effect
This is a technique I discovered by accident when creating the Drupal Sunset theme. The purpose of the box-shadow property is self-explanatory – it creates a shadow around an element. I've used...
View ArticleBlog posts that caught my attention this month – January 2010.
I find dozens of links to blog posts and articles sitting in my Google reader every day. I subscribe to 60 different feeds and I use this as a means of keeping track of latest trends in web design and...
View ArticleHow small businesses view their online strategy
At the moment I'm putting together a new business plan and I needed some data regarding how the web has affected business strategies. As a member of UK Business Forums I thought I'd ask fellow users to...
View ArticleValuable blog posts from February 2010
There's been some really interesting SEO and web design items that have caught my attention this month. I usually have about 50 different posts per day sitting in my feed reader and I try to keep...
View ArticleCSS3 pseudo-class selector emulation for IE and Dojo
In January developer Keith Clark released his script that allows gave cross-browser support to use 18 different types of CSS pseudo-classes that previously had limited or no support in Internet...
View ArticleInteresting blog posts from April 2010
Here's my brief run through blog posts that caught my attention in April (this entry also covers March as I didn't have time to write a round-up last month). They cover the weird and wacky world of SEO...
View ArticleSuperb happy hardcore mix
Do you wanna dance? Do you wanna dance right now to the bouncing bass of '94 hardcore? Well do you yer?! Of course you do. I first heard a Chrissy Murderbot jungle mix a few years ago and it saw some...
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Old school acid house rarities mix
ACCCCIIIDDDDDD! Where you there?! Actually, I wasn't having been born in '75. Still, it's nice to hear some of this Mars music again - it still sounds like it's from another planet rather than this...
View ArticleA complete guide to CSS attribute selectors
Attribute selectors are a part of both CSS 2.1 and CSS 3.0 and this tutorial will show you how to use these powerful design aids. If they are that helpful then why isn't their use more widespread, you...
View ArticleA complete guide to CSS pseudo-classes
CSS 2.1 pseudo-classes a:link {color:#3344dd} a:visited {color:#804180} a:hover {color:#b50010} a:active {color:#b50010} The above CSS pseudo-classes should already be familiar to you, but if they...
View ArticleBest of the Web for May and June 2010
Hay ho pop pickers this is the best web design and development blog posts from the last couple of months. As usual, there is a mixture of CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP and SEO. I hope you find some...
View ArticleA complete guide to CSS pseudo-elements
Pseudo-elements are fantastically useful as they allow greater control of elements and selectors without extra HTML mark-up. As with much advanced CSS, pseudo-element take up has been slow amongst web...
View ArticleBest of the web round-up – Autumn 2010
The 2000 mile per hour technology drop we all seem to be living in shows not sign of abating. As the European economies stagger from bad to worse we might all be going to hell on a handcart, but at...
View ArticleJquery plugin Little Colour Boxes is launched
Suburban Glory Web Design is proud to announce the release of jQuery plugin Little Colour Boxes and our first contribution to one of the web's must dynamic and worthy Open Source projects. The plugin...
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A Complete Guide to CSS Functions - Part One
Yes, you read that correctly – functions. Commonly associated with programming languages, they are also a feature of CSS. Apart from url(), they were rarely used in CSS2; but they are being widely...
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A Complete Guide to CSS Combinators
Ever since the 1990s there has been a concerted attempt in web design to use CSS as a means to separate presentation from content. Often it was the case that web designers were adding extra classes or...
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A Complete Guide to CSS Colour and Background Properties
The background colour and images are the basics of any website build. The first section of this article, for CSS2.1, covers the more rudimentary aspects, while the second part covers CSS3 and in...
View ArticleUsing PEAR Cache Lite with Drupal 6
The PEAR repository is a well-used and well-loved library of reusable Open Source PHP code. Perhaps in recent years it has fallen a bit out of favour and has become somewhat neglected; but there are...
View ArticleVarnish, Google Analytics and Drupal
If you are using Drupal on a virtual or dedicated server and you haven't yet installed Varnish then make sure you set aside some time in the near future to do so. It is, by far, the most effective way...
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