The Layout Factor

While I sure love quality handmade physical items over "pressed out of a factory" items, that doesnt seem to be true for the web design work I produce. Many times when I wish to modify a layout or CSS that I created and/or used for a past project, there is the arduous task of finding it. Worse, if I am not on my home network, I wont be able to grab it since I store my project archives on a MyBook.

I took the opportunity to do this while working on a local business' Wordpress site. Im rather pleased with the results. It was a bit time consuming and will add more time to my projects, at least at first. (Dont worry, this time wont be added to my customers' rates since it is more for my enrichment than benefit to them). In time it is my hope that, with more and more layout diagrams to work with, less of that enrichment time will be needed.

Getting to the Wordpress portion today, I hope.

This Template Arrives Fashionably Late

While having a part time job has been fun, it has been a bit more part time than I would have wanted. I suppose that gives me more time to do the kinds of projects that *I* want to do, if not for the running back and forth to doctors office and various degrees of administration run-around.

At least now, I have something to show for my Drupal ponderings and discoveries. This project was fun and let me look into functionality as well as design, allowing me to add more versatility to my overall web design portfolio. It may look like the design kind of lacks pizzaz but a simple modification of the Nista theme was what David wished for.



Submissions begin towards the middle of this year, so dont hesitate to submit one of your best stories, prose, or poetry. You know you want to. Here is the finished product for my first overall Drupal learning project:

My Current Challenge

Simple and sweet, this is my goal for the individual product page. Was hoping to use fieldgroup tabs module but it baffles me on how it will be done. JQuery and JQueryUI are my next stops. I see some explanation on it but it covers Views, which is a bit foreign to me. Maybe I should look at that first.

Will be doing a manual recreation of my work on a live server in the next few days before and during my vacation/excursion. Yeah, I could of imported/exported the database but it would keep me from getting what I already learned further set into my head by doing it all over again.