Diving Leisure London

Submitted by 01am on Fri, 04/30/2010 - 11:35

Diving Leisure London based in Clapham, South London is a dive shop and also gives dive lessons. Their website was built with Drupal 5 a few years ago and is shortly due an upgrade to Drupal 6. They also will be needing an online shop to sell dive courses, and eventually their dive equipment.

I'll try and document all the trials and tribulations of upgrading to Drupal 6 - adding all the required modules to get a shop working and anything else of note. Fairly soon an upgrade to Drupal 7 will be needed, but i'll have to go via 6 first.

http://divingleisurelondon.co.uk/

NMC Recordings website press

Submitted by 01am on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 17:59

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The NMC Recordings website: http://www.nmcrec.co.uk/, designed and developed between myself and AVCO is going to be officially launched next week, but its already generated some press...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2010/mar/12/nmc-music-map...
http://www.gramophone.co.uk/blog/classical-downloading/nmcs-music-map-%E...

The magical floating iPlayer

Submitted by 01am on Mon, 03/15/2010 - 16:34

(reprinted from http://labsix.net/beeb/)

Here’s a (Leopard) multi-tasking tip to view any iPlayer stream on your desktop while you are ‘working’ on that important document or presentation:

Why you should (or shouldn't) have very secure passwords

Submitted by 01am on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 19:50

More than a few times now i've had issues with users on a Drupal site where they've stated that something doesn't work for them, and its very useful to put yourself in their shoes and see what they're seeing. Of course as a site administrator you can see all their data anyway, but the permissions are different. What you really want is their password.

Drag to Share module released for Drupal

Submitted by 01am on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 12:35

Drag to Share is the first module that i've uploaded to drupal.org. It allows you to share the current node with Twitter, Digg, Delicious and Facebook using some nifty JQuery.

Drupal is the best CMS for SEO

Submitted by 01am on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 20:24

Acquia webinarAcquia webinar
Listening to a webinar from Acquia right now. The talk is by Ben Finklea of Volacci, entitled "Best Practices for Drupal Search Engine Optimization and Driving Site Conversions"

Whats the point of Google Wave

Submitted by 01am on Tue, 12/15/2009 - 00:35

Now don't get me wrong, I think Google Wave is amazing, but recently i've been trying to work out what good it is if i can't use it for my emails and have to also sign in to my Gmail account.

The problem is that its obviously such a sophisticated tool, but currently you really need everyone you know to use it in order for it to be useful. Or so i thought.

Illustrator tips and techniques

Submitted by 01am on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 16:25

I'm doing a lot of Illustrator work at the moment: making multiple frames and getting people to move efficiently requires a bit of illustrator magic here and there. I'm learning new little tricks with Illustrator every day so i thought i'd collect the most fun and useful tutorials that i come across right here:

Live trace:
http://bit.ly/5seGjT

Full screen flash that works on IE 6 and 7

Submitted by 01am on Tue, 12/01/2009 - 14:49

On www.julianopie.com I wanted full screen flash to get that fully immersive flash experience. This is fairly simple to achieve with SWFObject, but there are a few IE gotchas.

Depending on how you want to do it there are a few CSS options. What I wanted to do was get the flash object to take over the whole browser and remove any other div, I also wanted to remove the scrollbars. Any scaling and scrolling I would do within the flash.

Hooking up Drupal and Flash

Submitted by 01am on Mon, 11/23/2009 - 20:01


You can make an entire site in Flash and use Drupal as a back end using Drupal's Services module, but to make it easy and secure is a pain. But seeing as you're using Drupal as a framework for the data, why not also use a framework for the Flash end of things - this is where dp+dk step in.

Here's a link to a blog post that should get you started: http://bit.ly/7b8oit

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