Configuring The Contact Form Module In Drupal
I’m currently wrapping up on a Drupal installation for a client I’ve been working with for a while. One of the finishing touches on the new site is a contact form. Thankfully, Drupal has a contact form module built in, so there’s not really much work to do to get it up and running.
Here are [...]
Posted in Drupal on Monday, September 3 2007 | 7 Comments »
iPhone Only: Elitist Web Design Approaches
When I’m working on a website - any website - I’m thinking about how to maximize the audience that site gets.
I’ll make my best efforts to ensure that the pages can be viewed properly in the majority of web browsers, and I’ll do my level best to test that the code is accessible and [...]
Posted in Web Browsers, Web Design & Standards on Thursday, August 9 2007 | Leave a comment »
Styling Drupal Buttons For Usability
I came across this very interesting article by urlgreyhot on how to style the default Drupal buttons for that they provide some visual cues as to which buttons are most important.
In most of the standard Drupal themes, the Preview, Publish and Delete buttons are styled in the same way, which gives equal visual weight to [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, February 20 2007 | 2 Comments »
How Semantic XHTML And CSS Can Benefit Your Website
Mani Sheriar has written an interesting post on the Vitamin website about her experiences with XHTML and CSS web design.
Though Mani touches upon the basic benefits of streamlined CSS/XHTML design, like improved accessibility, page loading and search engine friendliness, she focuses mostly on the long-term benefits of the Standards-based approach.
How easy is it to approach [...]
Posted in Web Design & Standards on Saturday, January 6 2007 | Leave a comment »
Operator Firefox Extension Gives Microformats Wings
Finally! I’ve been watching discussions on Microformats avidly over the last year. The debate over microformats seemed to be all very academic, as no tools existed to locate and harness microformat data.
I’ve just discovered the Operator extension for FireFox, which is a plugin to detect and debug microformats on any web page. I’ve tested this [...]
Posted in Web Browsers, Web Design & Standards on Saturday, December 30 2006 | Leave a comment »
Cameron Moll - Griding The 960
Cameron Moll recently redesigned his website to a width compatible with a 1024 x 768 pixel screens. I’ve started to become convinced that this is the way to go, as 800 x 600 resolution monitors slide even further into obscurity.
Anyway, Cameron recently posted some useful grid images that you can use in CSS design to [...]
Posted in Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, December 19 2006 | Leave a comment »
