When developing the APSystems website the client wanted the banner image to zoom into focus when the page loads. Firstly I was thinking of doing it in Flash, my Flash skills are pretty rusty so I came up with a method of doing it via jQuery's animate effect.

The banner is actually two parts, the main image and an overlay logo and text that is fixed in place. The overlay image is a transparent png so I used the Drupal PNG fix Module to get transparency working in IE. The main image dimensions are larger then the area for the banner so the quality is still good when zooming.

One of the many things taken for granted when working with Drupal is that ability to have dynamic layouts. Different layouts for different pages, based on the blocks assigned to regions for the page.

Variables are set during page construction that can tell you how many columns are required. Which in combination with the page.tpl.php and your stylesheet can provide any number of layouts.

Brisbane.tv is the first of many local link directories to be released with the .tv top level domain. The site contains close to 7000 categorised links and provides access to the top 50 links of each category in under 3 clicks.
My role was importing the existing database content into Drupal's node and taxonomy system, incorporating OpenX and developing the theme for Drupal.

Version 3.02 of the MySQL Table Manager has been released. Changes are mostly fixing an error when backing up a database and fixing the notification or message system.

Thanks aquinoes for pointing out the error and testing the fix.

As development is done as needed and when time is available, to keep up to date with the MySQL Table Manager you can visit http://appcreator.com/web-development/table-manager and add the feed to your favourite RSS feed reader.

I worked at SpeakOut for about three years, during that time we were to busy with other projects to finish off our own site. So I was very happy to have the SpeakOut website as one of my first freelance projects. SpeakOut and I continue to have a strong working arrangement.