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Drupal 7 - First thoughts

Drupal 7 looks really good, it has everything ready to build a real site. Think we can do the likes of ACT, Vehcam or Wind in the Willows in it as everything for a basic site is in place. I'll start building a tutorial for it soon.

There are a couple of things I can't get to work (yet):

Bloody cat hates me

Web fonts in IE

Just been trying to get my CSS3 font working in IE9 so changed it to eof as usual but for some reason it was having none of it! Tried everything in the CSS then had a thought it could be the eof file.

Tried a new generator called Font Squirel and with the same ttf font and it worked!

Thanks Font Squirrel

Less Framework 4

http://lessframework.com/

I've not tried this yet but I'm looking to have a go on one of my next designs.

"Less Framework is a CSS grid system for designing adaptive web­sites. It contains 4 layouts and 3 sets of typography presets, all based on a single grid."

Sounds good

Smile

The box Model from CSS tricks

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Found this site a while ago with really cool info on the Box model http://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/

CSS tricks is a really cool site for most css stuff

Vehcam - Live?

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Loooks like Vehcam has gone live! Good to see it working and hope they do well Smile

29North - Live!

Well that's it, after years of name changing and procrastination we have now gone live with 29North!!

It's not the content type, the name or even the design type we had when we first decided to start our own company but I think it is where both me and Ben Bradley we want to be with it.

So, good luck to 29North and all who sail in her! Cool

Act is go!

So just finished the Act site. This one went just like the Vehcam one so Thanks to Ian Gristock and Bitopea for making it run nice and smooth Smile

Another one sorted! Vehcam

Thats the Vehcam site finished and passed back to Bitopia to go live. Feels good to get it sorted. Now just have to wait for it to go live Cool

jQuery - Use of siblings

How good are siblings? I've just got 390 lines of code down to 20! They're very good!!

I've been playing with jQuery for a website I'm doing and I'd had to move one element to another element and fade it in. I had to do this 94 times.

To do this I gave each element an ID and used that to move and fade in on a mouse over to another element. I was going to use vanilla javascript within php and loop all the elements.

New book - jQuery: Novice to Ninja

Been using jQuery for a few years on and off and figured it was about time I got a book a really learned what it's all about. I had a quick look and got jQuery: Novice to Ninja for my Kindle. I'm about 15% of the way through and finding it all very interesting, like when CSS first clicks!

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