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Vertically and horizontally center a div using CSS

As a web designer, I'm often asked to center content on a web page, vertically as well as horizontally. This is often referred to as 'the letterbox effect'. Back in the day, when we all used tables to mark up our pages, this was a pretty simple task.

Drupal 6 media streaming with Dash Media Player

Several weeks ago I took a fairly in-depth look at the current video streaming options available for Drupal 6. Shortly after I published the article, a new product entered the market - Dash Media Player. Dash Player is the creation of Travis Tidwell from TMT Digital, also the developer of the FlashVideo module for Drupal.

Drupal 6 video streaming roundup

In this article I'm going to take a look at video streaming options for Drupal 6, from the point of view of setting up a user generated content video website. What provisions does Drupal 6 have for handling video content?

How to customise the search box in Drupal 6

By default, Drupal allows you to include a search box directly into your theme. In most themes, when enabled, this search box will show up in the primary navigation bar as an input box labeled "Search this site", with a submit button labeled "Search". But what if you want to alter or completely hide these labels, or even add a new class to the input box?

5 Drupal SEO modules - essential modules for all sites

Out of the box, Drupal SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is pretty good. But there's definitely extra work that you can do to make it even better. In this short article I want to focus on a selection of Drupal SEO modules which provide fundamental enhancements that I think should be included in the Drupal core itself some day.

Drupal + Nginx + Fastcgi - setup and configuration

A Drupal site with several extra modules installed can leave quite a large memory footprint, especially when served through the beast that is Apache. Don't get me wrong, I think Apache is a great webserver and have used it for years without any real problems, but sometimes you need to squeeze a little more performance than Apache is willing to give.

Format the "Submitted by..." text for Drupal 6 nodes and comments

I don't like the way Drupal formats the "Submitted by..." text for nodes and comments. So, I did a little bit of digging and found the offending code in the theme_node_submitted() and theme_comment_submitted() functions of node.module and comment.module respectively.

BT: unlimited != unlimited

I have an 'unlimited' broadband connection from BT. So I used it to download some of my music off a server that I have in England, at the same time I was in the process of rebuilding a machine and so I had to download a lot of (free) software. I downloaded a few gigabytes, and now BT have throttled my connection, with an estimation of it being back to speed in 17 days time.

CSS3 - When will the final recommendation be ready?

I've been hearing a lot about CSS3 lately and I'm quite excited by some of it's new features, such as rounded corners, multiple backgrounds and opacity. But what I want to know is, when will it be ready to use?

Exclude page hits from Drupal 6 statistics

The Drupal statistics module doesn't offer a lot in the way on configuration; It's basically either on or off. When it is on, it's not particularly clever about the way that it keeps track of page reads, simply incrementing a counter every time a node is accessed, and there is no control over what counts as a hit and what doesn't.

If your or your site administrators do a lot of work on the site from day to day, writing articles, tweaking things here and there, then every single time they view a post views will be logged, resulting in a skewed post read counter.

Getting started with jQuery - 7 of the most useful resources

In recent times, a lot of general purpose javascript libraries have surfaced, making common javascript tasks a quick and easy to implement. To name a few, there is Script.aculo.us, Dojo and of course, Prototype. But, one of the most recent, and possibly the most powerful and flexible is jQuery.

8 reasons to choose Linux for your next OS

I've been using Linux for several years now on various web servers, proxy servers, home servers and more, but I've only recently started using it on my personal laptop (unless you count Mac OS X as Linux - which it basically is in many ways).