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Personal Web Design & Development blog by Jake Strawn. Topics include jQuery, Drupal, PHP/MySQL, and related web dev & design issues.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'drupal 6'
Hard at work - Omega Theme
I've been a bit quiet this week as I've been busy at work putting together the Omega theme for Drupal. The Omega theme, and the helper module, Omega tools (Optional) provide an advanced theme building experience to allow for a ton of customizat...
Recent Release: 960 Gridder Module for Drupal 6
The 960 Gridder module utilizes the code developed by Andrée Hansson, and is intended for use with the ninesixty theme created by dvessel. The 960gs CSS Framework system was originally created, and is maintained by Nathan Smith. Using the 960 Gridde...
Issues with using hook_theme & #theme for the form element level
Well, this has been a long and unproductive weekend with major frustration in trying to accomplish what "should" be a simple task in Drupal 6. I posted a couple of issues over the weekend related to the problem as it evolved from Friday night to Satu...
Up Next: Taxonomy Rockstar
I've been working away on a project at CommonPlaces that 99.9% of the site is relying on taxonomy organization to sort and browse through over 12,000 nodes, and have leared a lot about taxonomy in the process. ...
Himpressive Reloaded - Beta Status
I recently launched the updated version of the Himpressive theme for Himerus.com, entitled Himpressive Reloaded. I wanted to put up a short post on what this new site/theme has to offer, and how I plan to extend it in the future. ...
Filling the functionality gap
This post walks through the theory and code behind a module I recently created titled Save & Edit. This module is available to the Drupal Community at drupal.org/project/save_edit, and any issues with the module should be submitted via the Drupal...
Himpressive Reloaded Launched!
Rather quitely, I launched a beta version of the new site theme today. In addition to this theme launch, the entire site was rebuilt. While a backup copy is present, much of the "poor" content has been left out, and comments have not been converted t...
New Theme nearing "completion"
I've been working off and on for the past couple of weeks on a new theme for the site. The current theme, while very pretty, has been a large #fail in usability and organization. I've created a local dev site for testing and development of the new th...
Pro Drupal Development Second Edition
Review Introduction The following is a review of Pro Drupal Development (second edition) by John K. VanDyk. I received a free copy from Apress by mail on the 25th of August. I was hoping to get it a few days before the release, but snail mail got it...
Idea: Drupal 6 Module: Ping This
UPDATE: This module has an official release thread here at himerus.com. Further comments should be submitted there. read more...
In Route: Pro Drupal Development SE
Finalizing the corporate re-design
So after some thought & persuasion(s), I decided to rework a few elements to the new corporate design for Himerus Inc. The sticky notes were cool when putting together the old version of the site, but not up to par with this re-design, so they ha...
New Corporate Design - Himerus Inc.
After recently doing a complete overhaul of JakeStrawn.com, and this new himpressive theme here at Himerus.com, my corporate site was lacking some luster that in originally had in concept, and needed a fresh new design. read more...
Custom Drupal Templates by Path
I've had this issue crop up before, but never had a pressing need to solve it, or much time to search around to find the solution. Drupal has a great system of template naming where it allows you to use multiple different names for a template file (t...
Ten Drupal 6 modules for every site
The following post lists and important group of modules that I use on every, or almost every drupal site I complete, either for myself, or for clients as well. The following drupal modules have features that I simply can't live without. Some of the m...
