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Data presentation & usability, accessibility - what of timetables? 14 Jul 2010 | 09:35 pm
I use the web a lot, unsurprisingly. I use my smartphone to find things on the web a lot too. I have done for a long time. I was, however, rather surprised recently when I went investigating in order ...
DrupalCon Szeged - Day Three 29 Aug 2008 | 09:50 pm
Day three already… time flies. Today starts off with a theming talk by my roomie MortenDK – who has apparently recently promoted himself to “King of everything”, which is very humble of him, I’m sure....
DrupalCon Szeged - Day Two 29 Aug 2008 | 09:19 pm
Thursday, Day two. I didn’t do much today in terms of sessions, but I’d spoken to Kieran Lal of Acquia the day before regarding a voluntary interview… more on that in a tick. I hear that the testing ...
DrupalCon Szeged - Day One 28 Aug 2008 | 01:14 am
Day one of the Drupal Con in Szeged, Hungary. Morten and I made the initial keynote speech by Dries & Co. Well, almost. We were in the door about 4 seconds, there was some clapping, and we left. Could...
An official British Accessibility Standard 12 Jul 2008 | 12:05 am
News from the Web Standards Project – it seems that the old PAS78 standard that was so popular is being made into an official British Standard for Accessibility If this sticks, which it looks like it...
Sneaky marketing - crackdown 8 Jul 2008 | 10:43 pm
Recently introduced legislation in the UK now means that a whole swathe of “sneaky” internet marketing practises are now outlawed. Susan at Hallam Communications posted this article about the new law...
Quick theme tip: abusing Drupal's $mission variable 9 Apr 2008 | 11:20 pm
Just a quick tip for an extra, more accessible theming variable. I have personally found that on nearly all the sites I’ve built, I’ve never had a use for the Mission variable. So it struck me that I ...
Three tips for comment theming in Drupal 26 Mar 2008 | 09:09 pm
Today I’m just demonstrating a few simple theme adjustments to comments. A few snippets of theme code to whip your Drupal comments into shape. Make them more SEO'd, readable and how you want the...
Theming the $links variable in Drupal nodes 28 Feb 2008 | 03:05 pm
This snippet of code gives a brief example of how to rewrite components of the $links variable to make them prettier :) Specifically, here I’m overwriting the link generated by the Forward module. You...
Creating custom error pages in Drupal 27 Feb 2008 | 01:28 pm
Currently there are three options for creating error pages in the Drupal system, that I know of. I’m going to show here which I think is the best, for reasons of usability, performance and general web...