Copyright © Oliver Davies, 2010.
Built, naturally, on Drupal. Made on an Apple Mac in Wales
June 2010
Creating a Photo Gallery from Flickr using Feeds, CCK and Views
June 28, 2010 - 17:15 — Oliver DaviesIn this tutorial, I'll show you how I created my photo gallery which uses photos imported from my Flickr account.
The modules that I'll use to create the Gallery are:
10 Useful Drupal 6 Modules that I use on every Project
June 25, 2010 - 10:10 — Oliver DaviesAside from the obvious candidates such as Views, CCK etc, here are a list of 10 contributed modules that I currently use on each Drupal project.
So, in no particular order:
Creating a Block of Social Media Icons using CCK, Views and Nodequeue
June 23, 2010 - 22:08 — Oliver DaviesRecent work means that I'm a bit later posting this than I originally intended...
I recently decided that I wanted to have a block displayed in a sidebar on my site containing icons and links to my social media profiles - Twitter, Facebook etc. I tried the Follow module, but it lacked the option to add extra networks such my Drupal.org account, and my RSS feed. I started to create my own version, and then found this Blog post by Hank Palan.
I created a 'Social icon' content type with the body field removed, and with fields for a link and image - then downloaded the favicons from the appropriate websites to use.
Updated Navigation
June 10, 2010 - 10:38 — Oliver DaviesI've done some re-structuring of the main navigation menu:
- The Projects and Testimonials pages have been moved to the Work section.
- The Contact page has now been divided into seperate Personal and Work forms.
Improving Imagecache JPG quality
June 2, 2010 - 15:13 — Oliver DaviesWhilst uploading images for my Projects and Testimonials sections, I noticed that the Imagecache-scaled images weren't as high a quality the originals on my Mac. I did some searching online and found out that, by default, Drupal resamples uploaded jpgs to 75% of their original quality.
