My workflow is constantly evolving as new technologies become available. I think it’s common for heavy computer users to change it up regularly, but the willingness to always try out and be curious about new tools is essential to anyone who is passionate about interaction design and usability.
I’ve seen a few people on drupal.org how to implement Facebook Share and asking for modules, etc. However with the share widget provided by Facebook it’s really very easy to implement FB Share at the template level. To make it really easy, use CCK.
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Lately I’ve been trying to understand how AJAX is changing the experience that Drupal users will be having in the near future. This is particularly important as a Drupalista given the redesign currently under way. Here are some great looking modules that should be ready a bit sooner than the redesign. Warning: these modules might not be ready for primetime yet.
Drupal forms are awesome, until they suck and then there’s always
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/modifying-forms-5-and-6
The sugary sweetness of the media temple knowledge base
http://kb.mediatemple.net/
Simon Schama’s A History of Britain documentary series
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Schama%27s_A_History_of_Britain
A site that catalog’s all of the very best SMS messages that people send
(864): sometimes i wish i was able to text my cat and tell him i miss him and that i’m thinking about him
http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/ (Warning: NSFW) via @creativestable
A Quick Start Guide for a Standard CMS Using Drupal 5
These are the basic steps I go through each time I make a Drupal site. They are not a secret. The very fact you’re reading it means it could not possibly be a secret. Nice try, though.
A Drupal site can be made in many different ways, the steps below will lay the ground work for a site that is user friendly and behaves itself. This guide is not intended for hardcore development geeks or first time users – it’s just a blueprint for creating a safe and solid CMS with Drupal.
I’ll be expanding this post and also creating another page for Drupal 6 sometime soon. Keep your pants on. Thanks to Amy Steen for her input on this guide!
PS. There are lots of ways to make a site with Drupal and if you think you have a way I’d love to hear about it.
s3cr3t formula
And that’s it, at least for now. There’s lots left to do on your way to making a fully functional site, but hopefully this will give you a headstart. I’ll be updating this guide as often as is necessary, please let me know if you’ve got suggestions.
Part of my job entails that I summarize parts of web development into client lingo. The other day I had to come up with a list of basic requirements for a CMS that will be built for the client by their internal IT department. Here’s what I came up with:
Disclaimer: Of course, Drupal handles most of these things but Open Source isn’t always an option 
Mmmm… Seems to work! Camera is pretty decent, better than I expected. (more…)
I find javascript particularly useful to make up for the shortcomings of IE6 and that is what this post is mostly about. (more…)
I’m very proud to announce the release of my first wordpress theme, pl00. Don’t let pl00’s plain wrapper fool you – it’s meant to be a development theme that quickly gets a themer from A to B. I use it on every wordpress project I work on. One of pl00’s best features is that the homepage has 5 widget areas. It’s been tested in Firefox, Safari and IE7 and is W3C validated.
Tags: fixed width, three columns, valid CSS, valid XHTML, white, simple, widgets, widget ready, 3columns, right sidebars, SEO friendly, gravatars, h:over effects, text-only
This video looks amazing, it’s a new 3d environment that is top secret. Apparently the video was not meant to be released for the public but it’s so god-awful awesome it needs to be shared. The concept: this virtual world is rendered in the cloud and streamed to your browser.
As raytracing becomes more and more common I’m starting to get a lot of ideas for including 3d worlds in my interactive work – not to mention the possibilities of integrating data from the web into virtual environments.