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jQuery fun with lists and more lists

jQuery - So simple even a designer can do it!

Mar 22, 2008
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This week I had the task of taking a rather long and complicated list and shortening it down into categories with sub lists. jQuery seemed like the best way to go as I've seen accordion style sliding list and things of that sort before. The only thing I hadn't come across was a list with a drop down menu which controlled the list and content below...so I set out to build one as well as teach myself some jQuery (I knew what it was, just never wrote my own jQuery code before).

So t...

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Drupal Admin Theme

Designed as an admin theme yet can be used as a regular theme

Dec 03, 2007
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I started working on an admin theme for Drupal over two months ago in my spare time and just got around to packaging it up offering it up for download. I've used it on a a few client's sites and they seem to like it so hopefully someone else can get some use out of it.

As you may or may not know Drupal has the ability to switch from your site's theme to an admin theme when the user is logged in as an admin and in the "/admin" URL. Typically I used the Garland theme for this purpose as it looks different than any theme I've made so it's easy to tell if you the user are in th...

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Simplemenu Module Customizations

Making a great Drupal admin menu better

Nov 01, 2007
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I'm a big fan of the Simplemenu module for Drupal as it's quite a time-saver when developing a site. It's really handy to have the entire admin menu right at the top of each page.

Clients also love it for it's ease of use and they don't have to navigate to "/admin" everytime they log in and want to make a change to the site. Now they can just hover over the option the want on the top navigation bar accross their browser and drill down to the specific page they want. Very handy and much quicker than manually drilling down to each page. It's been a real time-saver for me so f...

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Drupal Theming

A standards approach to custom Drupal theme creation

Sep 10, 2007
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After working with Drupal for over a year now I have learned many different ways to go about creating a custom Drupal theme. I have tried taking existing Drupal themes such as Garland and Blue Marine and hacking them to pieces while inserting my DIVs and classes trying to get things to work and look right. That just creates a huge mess of code and often contains unneeded elements (code bloat = not a good thing).

I've found that the best method for me to create custom Drupal themes is to first code up the site using static HTML/CSS, as in create an index.html file and go to town. I al...

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Simple Mouseover Buttons With CSS

My preferred method of creating mouseover CSS buttons

Aug 13, 2007
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I've found that there are a ton of different ways to create mouseover images/navigation/buttons/whatever and every one of them seems to have some sort of limitations. Some work in FireFox but not IE, some flicker real quick when you mouseover and some rely on JavaScript.

I always try to avoid using JavaScript in my navigations since if for some reason a user on your site has JavaScript disabled they can no longer view your navigation. How are they supposed to navigate your site now!? I think I have found a good all around pure CSS mouseover method which works in ever...

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