Tips & Tools

Here we are with the follow up from last week post, another 5 small but interesting modules.
6. Views (JQuery) tablesorter
Display. Why use slow and possibly expensive mysql queries to sort a views table if you can do it in the browser? This module uses Jquery tablesort to sort your tables. Because of this it is [...]

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Usually I don’t like blog-posts titled like this one. However, recently I came across some small but potentially very useful new modules which you probably don’t know about yet (most of them are from around April/May 2010) and which I would like to highlight a bit. One word of warning though: most of them don’t [...]

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Nobody likes to wait. Especially people surfing the web. They want to see what they are looking for fast and will judge your website within a fraction of a second. Based on their first impression and user experience they make choices. A slow loading website is bad experience and will have a negative impact on [...]

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An obvious feature you often need on a website are previous and next navigation links, especially when building something like a picture gallery. Preferably with image thumbnails as in Flickr galleries. Out of the box, this basic functionality can be a challenge to realize in Drupal but it’s perfectly possible with a bit of understanding [...]

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While full HTML 5 support still is years away, it is coming. And with it, some very nice improvements. One of my favourites new elements in HTML 5 is the canvas element. And the nice part about this one is you can actually already use it with todays browsers. Yes. Even with IE6.
BeautyTips
This JQuery library [...]

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