Drupal

This August, I was in Switzerland for a family event. Any one who flies to Switzerland will usually spend some time in Zurich International Airport. Well, at least I did. And, even though I've been through that airport many times in my life, this time I must have had my eyes open for design. Let me tell you, if you get a chance to spend some time in the airport, and you need some inspiration, you're in the right place!

If you know a little about design, you must also know about Helvetica, the famous type face originating in Switzerland. And this recently remodeled and expanded airport lives and breathes Helvetica! But it's not just all the signage and directions everywhere, it's the architecture itself that just radiates the authentic Swiss design style

Now, you may be wondering why I'm telling you this... The reason is that what you see in front of you is a website design based on some of the elements I saw at the airport. For those who know me, I'm a big proponent of the "less-is-more" mentality, so I've built this Drupal sub-theme of Zen and called it zurich_airport. Enjoy!

Ok, maybe this is a silly entry... but apparently, this is a feature that some people are very passionate about: The apple touch icon.

Well, I just got working on a website, Luci's Family Child Care, and decided that I'd need an apple touch icon so iPod and iPhone users can save it on their home screens.

Recently, I needed a quick and easy way to add a dropdown menu to a Drupal site. So, like any good Drupal developer, I went to the drupal.org website and searched for a module.

First, I found a module called dropdown tabs. It apparently "takes the menu items that are in your primary and secondary tabs, and turns them into dropdown select boxes." So I wanted to try it. And it worked great for being just a box with dropdowns... But I needed something quicker and easier.

Next, i tried quickmenu, which essentially does the same thing as dropdown tabs, but instead of just being a dropdown select box, it actually creates a block from the dropdown select box items and pretty much works looks like a dropdown menu. Buuuut, I felt it was just too complicated to configure.

So finally, I found simplemenu. This one is probably one of the more complex modules I've seen from the Drupal community, but it is so easy to configure and works so well, you'd never know it was so complicated behind the scenes.

SimpleMenu creates a menu bar that is displayed at the top of every page and allows me to configure which element it should go inside of, #wrapper #header for example. Then, I can also create a menu from which it can pull its data, such as menu items and menu sub-items. And then styling is of course the easiest part. SimpleMenu - use it!

It's no secret that I've just recently taken on a position as a sub-contractor at San Diego-based AboutImage Design and Photography.

Now I've been working in Drupal for about a year, and now since late January, 2010, also in Joomla. For the last few years, I've been hearing so many negative reports about Joomla that I didn't even want to check it out. But now that I'm using it every day, it seems much easier and the reports false.

It's true though, that to build a Joomla site, money must be spent on some of the components and templates. That's maybe the single factor why I would not recommend Joomla to somebody who's not interested in investing much money into a website.

On the other hand, Drupal is free and very easy to use if you know what you're doing... well, they're both easy to use if you know what you're doing. But then why would you want to choose Joomla over Drupal? Or the other way around?

Both have/are:

• good documentation
• community of users and developers that help each other
• easy to install and use
• seo friendly

I think since they are both open source, they are very similar, but Drupal is maybe not quite as greatly recognized as Joomla and is also not as well supported. With Joomla, you've paid for a feature on the site and you can expect that you will get the support you need effectively, efficiently and in a timely manner. Whereas Drupal module developers are not bound to giving you any kind of support, since you're not paying them for their time (you're encouraged to make donations though). Many Drupal developers, though, are committed to help you as much as possible anyway for their own reputation and that of the community's sake.

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Web Development Freelance Pricing depends on the size and complexity of a project. The following price list is a simple guideline of what sample projects could be quoted at. However, every project is different and will be priced individually.

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I was just telling a friend, who was looking for a drupal splash page option, that there's a module out there called front-page (http://drupal.org/project/front)
and it's usually used for adding a splash page to the drupal site
without having to use the same theme that the rest of the site is using.

You could use a different theme for that page that has the amount of
columns you need, or whatever you're lacking from the theme that the
rest of the site is using. http://themegarden.org/drupal6/ is a good place to browse themes for drupal6, if that's what you're using...