Drupal: Easy Themeing with Fusion

The more I'm using Drupal, the better I understand why a lot of developers choose it as a top choice when it comes to creating community-driven websites. And another great tool at our dispense for creating Drupal sites is the Fusion theme.

Drupal 6: How to Embed a View Into a Template

For Drupal: If you need to embed a view inside a template file, a few lines of code is what you need. Lets take a look at the first solution based on the manual:

Must Read for Web Designers - 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines

I just stumbled upon this today and I wish I've read this before: 10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines. Smashing Magazine has compiled what I think are some of the most important guidelines in creating your web design more effective. I have yet to implement these on my next projects, but for those of you who are curious, here are the main points discussed in the article:

Quick and Easy Javascript Form Validation

If you need a quick javascript form validation script, you can use this one from Javascript-coder.com. Its pretty easy to implement and I've used it in some of my projects already. Its gonna save you some time coding from scratch!

20+ WordPress Codes You Might Need On Your Next Project

Undeniably, WordPress has been a premiere choice by web designers and internet publishers as their main blogging platform. One of the considerations of their choice is the flexibility of Wordpress and easy customization of templates. Also, a lot of resources are available online on how to make the popular platform even more. Here are 20+ WordPress Codes that you can use on your next WordPress project. 

Allow Div Layers to Float over Flash, Youtube or Vimeo Videos

For web designers, its always a constant struggle to get those flash, youtube, or vimeo videos tuck under divs where you need them. They somehow always behave like their z-index is close to infinity.

By default Flash content in a web page will appear on top of other elements on the page, including floating menus, inline popups etc. This can be pretty annoying if you have a flyout menu on your page and it goes behind the Flash video and this post shows how simple it is to fix. This works in all browsers inclding IE6+

21 CSS Tricks You Should Know

Web designers rely heavily on the use of CSS or Cascading Style Sheets to set the design specifications of each element on a website. CSS has made web designing a lot easier and more flexible. Here are 21 CSS Tricks that you can use in your future web design projects:

1. Cross Browser CSS SlideShow

Amazing demonstration of how to create a cross browser image gallery  using just CSS

2. CSS Based Image Maps

This tutorial demonstrates a crazy way to create an image map using just CSS.

3. No JavaScript LightBox Using CSS

Create a lighbox using just CSS with no JavaScript required.

20 Free Photoshop Floral Brushes

I am working on some sexy-themed websites lately, and I had to grab myself a bunch of Photoshop Floral Brushes for adding some sexy but artistic emphasis to the pages. These sites I'm working on are adult sex products. No, I'm not working on p0rn sites, but  websites that sell adult sex related products like enhancers etc.

Logos Showcase

I just wanted to share some of the logos I've done for my clients. I'm still learning everyday about the tricks of my trade so don't expect too much fancy stuff with my logo works.

Make a Javascript Pop-up That Doesn't Get Blocked and Show it Only Once

I'm honest to say that I am not an expert with client-side scripting, especially Javascript. But I needed a way to show a pop up to a visitor when he visits the site, and only show it once per day. I immediately debunked the idea of using window.open method because it will be 90% sure that pop-up blockers will instantly stop the new window when initiated. I thought of using the Lightbox technique for it, but lightbox was too limited with images, so I googled around for an alternative which can show HTML, then came Thickbox.

3 Ways To Easily Get Full Screenshot of A Website (Firefox Add-ons)

Making full screenshots of websites have been a common task for web designers or developers, because sometimes the websites aren't published yet and your clients want to see the full view of your design. Good 'ol Firefox addon developers have created easy to use addons for this purpose, and even more. Lets take a look at 3 Firefox addons we can use to get screenshots of websites: