Author Archives: matt
Finding The Path To Your Drupal Theme
Ever needed to reference a file in your Drupal theme? For example, an image from your page.tpl.php file, or a JavaScript file? You can hard code the path, which might be something like: /sites/all/themes/mytheme/images/myimage.jpg Or, with a little bit of … Continue reading
Applying Patches to Drupal or Modules on Mac OS X
I’ve had to run a number of patches to Drupal modules before, and I’ve always done them on my Windows machine simply because that is what has the most instructions available to do so. At the moment though I am … Continue reading
Placing Adsense After Your First WordPress Post
Google Adsense is a great way to make some money off of your blog, and by placing your code in a couple of key places in your template files, you can have it automatically displayed on all of your blog … Continue reading
Don’t Settle For Less
I get emails from a website called Service Seeking when there is a job listed that is related to my field of work, specifically web design. I have practically given up on it though as there seem to be a … Continue reading
Adwords Management
I picked up a new domain name yesterday, http://adwordsmanagement.net.au which I’m thinking I’ll use to create a landing page relating to Google Adwords management as part of the TerraMedia website. I’m not sure when I’ll get round to it though … Continue reading
Using the GMap Module with Drupal’s Private File System
If you use the GMap module with your Drupal installation, something you may not realise initially is that a file is created in your Drupal file system called gmap_markers.js. By default this file goes in sites/default/files/js/gmap_markers.js and is not the … Continue reading
CSS Clip Property
I recently came across the clip property on the Web Designer Wall, it’s a property I’ve not heard of before, probably because I’ve not really had a need for it, but now that I know what it does, there are … Continue reading
What I’ve been Doing – Yahoo Pipe Feed Aggregation
For KIB216 I have created a pipe which takes an RSS feed from numerous sources where I post blogs and updates, including: http://blog.stillaslife.com http://matthewbrown.net.au http://terramedia.com.au http://twitter.com/darksbane http://twitter.com/terra_media It then lists them in chronological order:
Find your Latitude and Longitude
While I was experimenting with Yahoo Pipes for the Flickr photo display mashup I made the other day I found another mashup which could potentially be very useful. It is simply called “Find Latitude and Longitude” and does pretty much … Continue reading