For those of you who may be experiencing a few errors when following the examples in the Pro Drupal Development book make sure you visit the book’s website. It has a section with known errors where you contribute you own comments for those not listed.
There’s not many Drupal books out there at the moment, but Lullabot are writing a new one called Practical Drupal with O’Reilly which will be based around Drupal 6.
…a list of methods to hide email addresses from the page source to minimize visibility against the email harvesting spam bots. Each method has its (dis)advantages, therefore I leave it up to the reader to decide which method suits them the most, as there are many factors.
Hide email address in source code
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I’ve often spent time developing column structures for websites. Structure is a good thing and it’s essential to keep your design looking consistent across a number of website pages. Newspapers all run on complex column grid systems and have done for years. Websites are really no different. Even if you have an irregular design, you’ll still benefit from a little underlying structure.
The following shows one of the more common column structures, with splits for 2 to 6 equally spaced columns. It’s based on a 720 pixel width, so will sit nicely on 800×600.
There are a number of other column sets that split nicely into whole (pixel) numbers. Read on if you’re interested.
A new online dictionary and thesaurus launches today called WordSource. It’s main benefit over sites like Dictionary.com is the fact that the site is very cleanly designed and contains no advertisements. You can also look up a word by simply adding it to the URL (so word.sc/example will pull up the definition of “example”).
I think I’ll stick with my Mac Widget.
technorati tags:Social, Wordsource
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Always a bit dubious when a new browser comes out, but this one might be different.
With Flickr, delicious and blog integration – it’s labelling itself as the social browser. I’m posting this entry with it just to prove to myself that it might be worth adopting as my default.
Looks good so far. What do you think?
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Did you know that companies in the UK must include certain regulatory information on their company websites and in their email footers from 1st January 2007 or they will breach the Companies Act in the UK and risk a fine.
Read more at Accessibility 101.
There’s a wide range of opinion on styling form buttons with CSS. Is it even worth it? Different platforms and browsers all render them differently, right?
This article sets out a practical example of 3 varying button styles of increasing CSS complexity and shows how these render for <button> and <input> on a wide variety of platforms and browsers (40 variants!).
The base code is XHTML (DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"):
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="s1" />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" class="s2" />
<button value="submit" type="submit">Submit</button>
<button type="submit" value="submit" class="s1">Submit</button>
<button type="submit" value="submit" class="s2">Submit</button>
<button type="submit" value="submit" class="s3">
<span>Submit</span></button>
The last button element includes the embedded span tag in a hopeful attempt to see if the classic “Sliding Doors” technique could work to create nice rounded ends. Alas, this proves unfruitful, as there seems to be some kind of inherent padding inside of the button element. It works flawlessly on Opera and Safari though (bless ’em).
I recently acquired a job to re-write an existing web application that was written in “old” HTML code. You know the sort, inline styling, unnecessary tags, weird classes, table based layouts nested to the nth degree, etc, etc.
Rather than starting writing shiny new XHTML from scratch, I thought I’d make use of some of Dreamweaver’s capabilities for batch processing and find and replace functionality.
Looking into “Regular Expressions”, I found the answer.
