'Web Design' Category

Save Hardrive Space by Removing Mail

Hard drive space getting tight? You may not be aware that you are storing large quantities of mail on your hard drive. I found out that I was using 12 GB of space for the sake of offline viewing which virtually never happens. If you’d like to reclaim that space you can go to mail [...]

Drupal Module Path Check

Ever upload new modules to Drupal but you don’t see the new module files taking effect? Chances are that you have more than one of the same module. You can check to see what the path is for a specific module using the pattern below and inserting it into a page.tpl.php or node.tpl.php file: <?php [...]

Outside the Box Dropbox Ideas

Dropbox is a fantastic tool for cloud services that allows you to keep files in sync across multiple computer & devices or to share large files. The files are encrypted and so the service is supposedly very secure. For free plans they only start you off at 2GB but you can gain an extra 250mb [...]

Drupal jCarousel & Galleria CSS

I was surprised that when using the Drupal jCarousel module with Galleria that the Galleria plugin didn’t apply a jCarousel theme in it’s implementation so it doesn’t work right out of the box. So I modified this CSS file (the default jCarousel CSS) to work with Galleria. All you have to do is replace the [...]

Firefox Keeps Crashing (Fix)

Your productivity drops dramatically when Firefox keeps crashing so I was determined to find a fix. UPDATE: In my case the problem was firebug. When a update for firebug came out my problem was fixed. I still recommend taking a look at your profile if your Firefox install keeps crashing even after reinstalling as everything [...]

Good Value Hosting

As a web designer I’ve been able to have experience with a with a wide variety of hosting providers and found it’s hard to find good value hosting. I’ve read all the articles about ***Sucks, Company X VS Company & written some too. After all my good an bad experiences with hosting I’ve come to [...]

Embedding 360 Views for iPad

One of the things I see catching on quickly in the near future is embedding 360 panarama views on web pages. The gyroscope on the iPad makes for an unreal experience. Check out this normal office on your iPad:

WP Customer Reviews Cycle Widget

WP Customer Reviews is a great way to add testimonials to your WordPress install. It seems like clients always want to have their testimonials rotate somewhere so here’s how to get your wp customer reviews to cycle in a widget. 1) Add the WP Customer Reviews Shortcode You’ll first need to make sure that you [...]

Printing Custom Meta Fields in WordPress

This a good page to reference when you’re wanting to print out custom meta fields that you’ve added to custom post types in wordpress. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_post_custom

Closing the mediaelement.js player after playing

The mediaelement.js is a great way to play video. They just have a bug at the end of a videos on internet explorer where the video stays full size, but the window shrinks. Looks a little like this: