Create multiple-step forms using CCK Fieldgroups in Drupal
Mar 27, 2010 Drupal, Web Design Tutorials, web development
Lately I’ve been working on a Drupal project, and one aspect in our priority list is the user-friendliness for the people who will submit their contents to the site. A good solution would be to divide the submission form into different steps so that the form page would not be so crowded. Thanks to David Newker for his solution on how to create muliple step forms using CCK Fieldgroups in Drupal. Here are the instructions I followed:
Tags: Drupal forms
Allow Div Layers to Float over Flash, Youtube or Vimeo Videos
Feb 6, 2010 Web Design, Web Design Tutorials, Work
For web designers, its always a constant struggle to get those flash, youtube, or vimeo videos tuck under divs where you need them. They somehow always behave like their z-index is close to infinity.
By default Flash content in a web page will appear on top of other elements on the page, including floating menus, inline popups etc. This can be pretty annoying if you have a flyout menu on your page and it goes behind the Flash video and this post shows how simple it is to fix. This works in all browsers inclding IE6+
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Tags: youtube vimeo flash
Ultimate Guide to Grid-Based Web Design
Nov 17, 2009 Web Design Tutorials
Web design trends now point to one aspect of using CSS for the basic website wireframe – Grid-based layouts. I haven’t actually used this into my projects lately, but I’m really planning to jump into the bandwagon. I don’t wanna be left out! I stumbled upon this site called 960 Grid System which offers a CSS generator for your grid layout, as well as examples of websites that use the grid-based system. Since then I’ve tried to go deeper into knowing how grid layouts work.
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Tags: grid based layouts
