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

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

julianopie.comJulian Opie's new website, julianopie.com has been a while in the making and has incorporated a whole host of fresh (for me at least) techniques. But I think that this makes it a very different and exciting site.

The main objectives were to have something very different that made you play with the site, have a completely unique experience. At the same time I was determined that the site would be based on a CMS - be infinitely expandable so it could incorporate the thousands of artworks that Julian has made. It also had to work for non-flash browsers, each page should have a unique URL and be able to be crawled by search engines.

Sometimes you want to get something quite specific into Views and its not easy with the standard filters. This is where arguments come in:

For instance I wanted to make a view show recordings for a particular composer.
I've 2 node types: Recording and Composer.
Each Recording has a node reference CCK field to select Composer(s) - there can be multiple composers

Heres an easy way to get at that data: