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Web Design and Development is a great hobby and if done correctly a great career. It's not easy to keep up with trends, changing technology as well as making a customer happy by delivering a product that they want while still providing what they need. Finding that balance is the key to making a lucrative career in Web Design.
If you are not so lucky there are many other avenues to follow, such as being your own customer. I'm referring to developing Websites that interest you and build traffic from the inherit love and knowledge of a topic that is close to your heart. Google Adsense is one of the best tools you can use to profit from doing what you love.
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Using Drupal for an IT Support Ticketing System
Issue tracking has the potential to make or break an IT team regardless of how well they perform. A ticketing solution must display information in such a manor to enable a user to obtain a solid grasp of the overall situation at a glance, and user/task specific details just a click away. The adaptability of Drupal makes it a stable platform to build on.Read full article...
Theming Drupal Blocks in a Zen Sub-theme
Adding block styles to your sub-theme are important for several reasons. My original objective behind learning to style blocks was to eliminate large titles and awkward spacing that was inherited from the parent style sheets, especially the H2 tag. Once I got a grasp on how easy it was to style individual blocks or groups of them I started to utilize this more. Blocks.css comes packaged in your sub-theme's CSS directory with many useful classes and ID's listed (commented with their purpose as well).
Taking a look at the page source you can see how styles are applied to blocks...Read full article...
Taxonomy and Views in Drupal - Create tag block per section page
Providing a quick way for visitors to find additional information they are interested in has been a major focus while working on this project. Requirements were few but critical to meet. The solution: Taxonomy linked key phrases to posts while Views provided a method of displaying the terms.Read full article...
Theming Drupal - Side by side blocks in page region
You can go far with Drupal, a Zen Subtheme, and a little CSS intuition. Sometimes it's necessary to place blocks side by side in a page region, but adding page regions isn't possible or practical, you can use the block.css file in your Zen Subtheme's CSS directory to work some magic.Read full article...
Custom Regions using Drupal and Zen Subthemes
Having the ability to layout each page according to your own specifications is a must when designing a web site. In Drupal development, creating custom page regions gives control over content areas to achieve a personalized look. I'll walk you through creating two regions that split the content area in half.
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of Drupal and how it works, a Drupal site that you have access to installing themes and a basic text editor.Read full article...
Theming Drupal Views in a Zen Subtheme
Take complete control of design and flow of information using Drupal Views and Zen Subthemes. Changing the appearance is crucial when changing a background and body text colors of a site that conflict with the default views styling. CSS properties can be added to a high level tag that affects many areas as well as to very finite areas of just one View.
When the views module outputs a view it wraps it in a div tag with class information. Zen uses views-styles.css in the CSS directory of your subtheme to style views.
One key element in styling views is that when a view is created you must use on lowercase letters and underscores, however when creating the class tag in the CSS document you must use hyphens in place of underscores.Read full article...
Zen sub-theme CSS html-reset file
Use the style sheet html-reset.css in your Zen sub-theme for setting the default styling for your site, mainly text styling and backround colors. It has a confusing name that can make one worried about editing, but in reality it's a file that should be the first edited.
This file uses ems for most of it's styling, which is fantastic for fluid and dynamic sites that allow users to change font size, but not so wonderful for those who need to figure out how high to make a button for a line height of 1.2 ems. Ems are calculated off of the standard of 16px text, so if your button is behind 1.2ems calculate 1.2 x 16px = 19.2px so you can go with a 21px or larger backround to encompass the line height properly.
