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Personal Web Design & Development blog by Jake Strawn. Topics include jQuery, Drupal, PHP/MySQL, and related web dev & design issues.
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Delta Theme Settings API Conception
I've spent a lot of time lately working with the Omega theme, and really trying to get features lined out that I've had planned for some time now. I spoke on many of those desired features during my presentation at DrupalCamp Montreal, and wanted to ...
Design4Drupal 2010 - Boston Camp Website Design Contest
While D4D2010 - Boston is still a nice long way off in June of next year (exact dates, venue still TBD), Susan MacPhee and I among others are starting to put the wheels in motion to make this a great event, and top what was a fantastic start in 2009 ...
Omega theme feature plans
I've just added several items to the Omega theme issue queue in order to document the planned features as I discussed at Drupalcamp Montreal. Custom Layout Configuration based on node->type (#614412) Custom Layout Configuration based on pat...
TG Blog - Beta Blog theme concept
I just sat down for a bit today after posting my current projects & status and decided to spend a bit of time playing in photoshop on a more simple theme than I usually attempt to make, focusing on simple layout of data, and a clean, readable ty...
Current projects on the table...
The following is a list of some of the things I'm currently working on. Some of these items are out in the open, some are currently still in planning, some are still completely conceptual. These are projects I'm working on in my spare time as time al...
First open discussion on the "DrupalCamp Project"
Recently, at the latest meetup of the Boston Drupal user group, I posed an open question to the group regarding an idea I want to pursue that I feel will greatly help the Drupal community, and DrupalCamp organizers. Since the event I've been working ...
Omega theme wrapup & 24 column support in 960gs
I've spent a good bit of time again on the Omega theme in preparation for my presentation at DrupalCamp Montreal, and getting closer to a much more stable release of the theme. After taking a bit of a break from coding on the Omega theme, I was able ...
Scarce Drupal Theme Dilemma V2.0
This topic as seem to come up again after I recently blogged about it a month or two ago. My original post at the time was more of a personal rant of things I had noticed since spending tons of hours working on my Omega base theme for Drupal. However...
jQuery snippets I can't live without in Drupal
I haven't posted in a bit since returning from Drupalcon Paris, and still have intentions to hash over some of the things I took away from the event, but for now, here's a quick group of jQuery code snippets I can't live without when developing Drupa...
Why there aren't more "great" Drupal contributed themes availalbe to the community
I've been using Drupal now for the past several years, and my time with Drupal has been varied. What I have noticed though is that there is always an overabundance of contributed modules that have great feature sets, and a small number of truly excep...
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...
Permission Select Module shown on Acquia!
I just recieved a link from @sethcohn regarding a post from Acquia floating around the twitterverse. The post by Jacob Singh highlights a new process for installing those pesky updates to your Drupal site in Drupal 7. The process is looking VERY nice...
Getting the Save & Edit feature into Drupal 7 Core
After some initial feedback on my Save & Edit module for Drupal 6, I've decided to push forward with attempting to get support for the feature to be included in Drupal 7 as a core item. I've recently figured out an issue with a bug that was preve...
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...
Creating hooks for your Drupal modules
While I was working on the new Taxonomy Rockstar module, and building in the backend features, It was clear I needed to provide some sort of API for other developers who find it short a feature or two (layout generation in this situation) should be a...
Drupalcon Paris Sessions
After I had a great time at #d4d (Design 4 Drupal - Boston) I thought I'd post a quick note on the current sessions I'm proposing for Drupalcon Paris. I plan to try to get to Paris no matter what, but I was told that if I wanted to get the company to...
Design 4 Drupal Boston - A Great Event!
Well after a tiring weekend at Design 4 Drupal - Boston ( #d4d ), I'm back at home, gathering my thoughts on everything I've seen, and all the great Drupal people I got to meet this weekend. For me, this was my first Drupal event, even after us...
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. ...
Design 4 Drupal Boston - What I'm excited to see
If you are in the New England area, a Drupal user, and not aware of the Design 4 Drupal camp coming up in Boston, you should crawl out from that rock, and be sure to attend! ...
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...
Looking for Drupal Freelancers
As I continue to move forward on securing funding to open a full service web development shop, I'm going to be needing a good "core" team of freelancers to handle much of the grunt work. read more ...
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...
