Programming

How to Build a CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu

Posted by on October 31, 2010 at 9:54 pm

Net tuts+ have published anice article on how to create a CSS3 Mega Menu. As these are all the range at the moment, you would prefer to have one which uses as little Javascript resource as possible.

Cross browser styleable scrollbars with jQuery and CSS using jScrollPane

Posted by on October 31, 2010 at 9:48 pm

I came across this jquery module that allows you to style inline scroll bars within your website. jScrollPane is designed to be flexible but very easy to use. After you have downloaded and included the relevant files in the head of your document all you need to to is call one javascript function to initialise [...]

Arts Foundation before and after

Posted by on October 18, 2010 at 9:18 am

I am currently backing up the old artsfoundation.co.uk site and will be uploading the new Zone1 Creative developed Drupal site to the server. As a case study I have taken snapshots of the old site and will be placing the new pages alongside them to show how we have improved the site. OLD SITE NEW [...]

Why build a bespoke online app when you can buy it pre built

Posted by on October 16, 2010 at 4:40 pm

I came across http://www.scriptcopy.com/ today. This site lists well known online apps such as facebook, twitter etc and allows your to find scripts that do the same and install on your webserver.

How to identify the browser in PHP

Posted by on October 16, 2010 at 4:28 pm

Bastian Allgeier has posted a great article on how to identify what browser is being used to view your website. The code is written in PHP and set the HTML class to the browser being used. The implementation involves downloading the PHP code from Bastian’s website and adding two line of code to your PHP [...]

PHP programmer tools

Posted by on August 26, 2010 at 8:14 am

So you want to be a PHP programmer? Here are a list of the tools I have installed on my computer before I can start coding. Most of these apps can be installed using Ninite which is a multi installer and greater when you buy a new computer. Code Editor Notepad++ http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download FTP Filezilla http://filezilla-project.org/ [...]

Run your own News/Magazine website using Opensource software

Posted by on August 25, 2010 at 7:33 am

I have developed a lot of websites now using Drupal. Nearly any requirement thrown at me I have managed to code or build using Drupal 6. But life can be made a lot easier is someone has already done most of the work in terms of functionality but all I have to do is implement [...]

How to easily upgrade Drupal from one minor version to another with a patch file

Posted by on August 25, 2010 at 7:24 am

Upgrading Drupal to the latest version is always a pain. End to end it takes about an hour to upgrade the core code and all related modules. Chris Shattuck’s blog explains how this can be done easily using using Drush

Writing an API in PHP for your app

Posted by on July 27, 2010 at 8:47 am

Lately I have writing an API for Micro Site Manager a satellite site generator. This app is currently in Alpha stage and is being tested by a number of my clients. If written a lot of bespoke PHP code to handle data transfer between the site and the satellite sites. So a Satellite makes a [...]

40+ Essential Drupal Modules

Posted by on July 26, 2010 at 10:18 pm

Now this is an old article from April 2010 but a very useful checklist to see what modules you should have for every drupal install. http://www.nicklewis.org/40-essential-drupal-6-modules