Content Before Design

I know this is old hat but the longer I’m in the business of building websites – and designing for print for that matter, the more I see the importance of crafting your content before the design visuals. By nature of the act of designing you are aligning...

Drupal Views PHP and Text Values

Man, after much tinkering and frustration I have finally realized that when using Views PHP to construct fields you cannot print actual text values out. Instead it will produce the entity number in your output code. So, in case you are trying to get a Global PHP field...

YouTube iFrame and Dropdown Menus

Ever get that annoying issue where your drop down horizontal menu expands down and the YouTube video you embedded with the standard iFrame code remains on top of your menu? This one has buggered me a few times and maybe I’m not the only one but I figured...

Copyright Year Automatic Update

I hate having to go in and manually update the year in the footer on websites next to the copyright text. This isn’t anything fancy or new but just something to keep in your brain so you don’t have to go around updating the year every January in your...

Adding an Extra Fancybox Close Trigger

Tonight I had to figure out a way to have a secondary close button for the Fancybox modal window I’ve been working on for a client. I hadn’t come across this before but know how magically neat jQuery is, I knew there had to be a way. Turns out it’s...