Way Cool Web Design Blog

In the land of blind Drupal people, the one-eyed man is Drupal King. I don't know what this means, except now you will know how to theme Drupal 5 so you no longer have to suffer through others' freebie themes. Make your own awesome themes!

Here it is, better late than never. How to theme Drupal 5. Get your ya-yas out and party like its 1999! I mean, stop using crummy themes that make your site "look like a Drupal site". Get your act together and make your sites look awesome!

Check in on my search engine optimization (SEO) experiments. Congratulate me or point and laugh, you decide... Come see the SEO geek bite the head off of some search phrases! LIVE! On the inside!

Way Cool Web Design teaches you the secret of how to improve search engine optimization by coding page content at the top of your HTML.

Way back in the day, @2002, like many web monkeys I was salivating over css Zen Garden and the possibilities of CSS. It opened something in my brain. Although the visions of loveliness I had back then haven't quite come to fruition, it definitely changed my path from simple design and table-based HTML layout to a focus on tableless CSS-based designs.

I had a quick conversation with Duane Degler from Design for Context at DrupalConDC 2009 this past week. It gave me a great idea to try out a usability feature in my next implementation of the Drupal Content Management System, which is to use CSS to make some of the action functions appear as buttons. Links connote taking a user some place, buttons connote action.

There have been only two or three occasions in my career when I've needed to create a curvy vector line for a design in Photoshop. Each time it took me much longer than I anticipated. I'm not sure why, but what seemed like obvious approaches before always turned out to simply not work as hour upon hour went by. Finally, an answer...

Someone asked the other day if anyone knew how to make a resizable background image. Another person, far more knowledgeable than myself (which could be about anyone at this point), replied the topic has been brought up before and no one found a solution. That often makes me want to give it a shot myself because I am a glutton for failure.

I see this request floating around a lot — the sticky footer. “How can I make a footer stick to the bottom of the screen and always remain on screen?”

I still run into lots of folks who don’t really understand graphic image formats and image resolution. It can make a big difference in how images appear in their final form. It sure was confusing for me when I was starting out. Here’s the lowdown.