Web Design

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!

Something I've come across this last week is styling menus with CSS, that normally would have a gradient background.

It all started because my screen broke about 2 weeks ago and I couldn't use photoshop. So I decided that since I can't just stop building my freelance projects, I'll have to figure out another way to make it work. And voilá: MY CSS gradient was born.

The way it works is basically giving an element a background color and a top and bottom border, very similar but not exactly the same as the background color. The end result looks something like this:

And to make it even more interesting, I could use another background/border color scheme for the hover state :-)

Please check out my latest project, Kingdom Living Health Ministries, to see what I've done with this technique

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Well versed with different types of media, detail oriented, yet able to see the big picture.
Flair for developing unique solutions to complex problems.
Visionary, yet practical focus on challenges.
Continuous learning attitude.

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...