Thursday, September 30, 2010

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:

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

PHP Redirect Visitors to Another Domain or Subdomain Based on Country

Redirecting visitors to a different domain based on the country of origin is one way to consolidate language translations. For example, I have a site at asdfg.com, and I want Australian visitors to be redirected to asdfg.com.au and UK visitors to be redirected to asdfg.co.uk , I can easily do that with a little PHP and a module called GeoIP. Here are the steps:

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

28 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know

I am excited about learning HTML5 and probably soon enough, this technology will change the Internet's face completely - forget about putting id="header" or struggling with form input types; with HTML5 that will all be completely left into the dark ages. Check this tutorial from NetTuts :

Monday, August 30, 2010

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

SiON SoundObject Quartet - Will Make Anyone Musically-Inclined

This Flash will let you create techno/house/ambient/trance/electronica music at your will. Unfortunately it only has five chords to play. But its still a really good music generator. From WonderFL.net. Enjoy playing around with it! SiON SoundObject Quartet after the jump:

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Improve Drupal Performance 400% using the Boost Module


When developing Drupal websites, you will start to notice performance bumps when adding more and more modules to your site. Soon enough as your website gets more complicated, those performance flaws get magnified. One very essential module you should install into your Drupal site is the Boost module.

Friday, August 20, 2010

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:

Thursday, August 05, 2010

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!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Drupal - How to Diagnose a Blank White Screen: White Screen of Death (WSOD)

While developing a Drupal website, I was testing out the created pages and suddenly on one page, nothing was loaded. There was just a blank white page - more appropriately called the Drupal White Screen of Death or WSOD. First step I did was to enable error reporting because there might also be problems with the template I was customizing:

Friday, April 30, 2010

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.