Web Design

Over the weekend I upgrade this blog to Drupal 6 so I could take advantage of all the advancements that have been made in Drupal core and some modules that only have releases for 6.x. While doing the upgrade, I also decided that I'd create a new theme because I'd never really liked the old one.

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Since Alborz mentioned it last week I decided to write about the apps that I use to track time spent on each client and overall productivity.

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This is particularly important to freelance web developers.

A colleague of mine is so thorough with his projects that some would call him a bit anal. But no one complains, because the work rarely ever needs to go back for a second revision. I’d like to think I’m the same. Going beyond the exact scope of a task to make sure the job is done the right way the first time. Sure, it might take a bit more time now, but it will save a lot of time down the track.

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This week I was searching for online backup solutions at work so I did a quick Google search for and clicked 3 or 4 of the AdWords ads that appeared. One of the sites that I came across had a landing page that looked like this:

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This post is an old post from my previous blog but I thought it might be still useful to some people so I'll repost it here rather than deleting it.

Last week I was modifying the default Drupal Bluemarine theme to incorporate a custom designed layout for a client, and was getting some strange image padding issues when viewing the web site in Firefox. Each of the <img> tags in the web site has about 2 or 3 pixels of padding below each image, and thus causing horizontal white lines between images in the heading of the site.

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