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New minimalist theme released for Drupal 7 - MM
About a year-and-a-half after releasing my first contributed theme for Drupal, Airy Blue, I have finished and release my second contributed theme, MM - A Minimalist Theme.
MM is my first HTML5 theme, and my first for Drupal 7 (which, by the way, is awesome!). I have been working on refreshing my LLC website, Midwestern Mac, for the past few months since I scrapped my first hacked-together theme from about 2.5 years ago, and I finally decided to take the plunge and go Drupal 7 for the redesign....
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Mobile Device Usage on Different Websites
I have recently been advancing my work in mobile theming and architecture for a few different websites, as I agree with many others who have said before that the web will become mobile (meaning it needs to display equally well on a smartphone, a tablet, and the desktop) in the next 5-10 years... and we need to be ready for that!
Here are some device usage statistics for the past month on a variety of websites I maintain (I only mention the top three - Blackberry, Symbian, etc. are too...
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Online Calendaring: FullCalendar.js
In my always-continuing quest to find the perfect online calendar display/management solution, I have found the next level of calendar display/management bliss.
Previously, I was pinning all my hopes on Drupal's very robust, but often complex and confusing, Calendar.module (in use by almost 50,000 websites—and for good reason—it's extremely adaptable). The module provides many different displays, and gives you the ability to link directly to a specific day/month/week... but it (a) is relatively slow to allow switching from month to month, (b) requires a rather complex view, with arguments, which...
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Looking to do some volunteer work
Superman web site developer looking to volunteer to get the word out.
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Google Refine 2.0
Check out the video, very cool! I make closed source software that works like this.
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-google-refine-20-power-tool.html
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Embedding a 'Related Content' block in your Drupal nodes
Many of my favorite websites offer a nice little feature, immediately following the body of the page, that highlights 3-5 "possibly related" stories or blog posts. I wanted to do this on OSC and some other sites, but found that it's difficult to add regions inside of nodes—the closest I could get with the default theme/block behavior is to have it appear after comment section, which is too far down the page to be relevant.
I decided to use the Featured Content module to create my blocks, as it offers...
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2011: Social Media Tipping Point for the Catholic Church
My prediction: 2011 will be the year of Social Media for the Catholic Church... at least in the United States.Let's look at some of the latest developments:
- One of the topics for next week's Fall Assembly of the USCCB is "Integrating new media into diocesan communication structures."
- Blogs, Twitter, and other social media outlets are becoming less derivative and dependent on mainstream media, according to a recent Pew report.
- The USCCB recently released a synthesis of social media best practices in its Social Media Guidelines.
- Catholic websites...