~bbinkovitz

Project Date: 
July 2008
Built with: 
Drupal 6
Theme: 
Modification of "Alek 2.0"

a simple screenshot

Here it is. Here I am. Funny how that works.

I drew the kind of goth-looking vector curlies myself in an old version of CorelDraw. The webdings are just webdings I took from the ever-popular "webdings" font. The design is based on and inspired by Alek 2.0.

A few Drupal modules I love and am using on this site:

  • Views– Makes dynamic lists such as the portfolios from fields within specified nodes. Can't live without it.
  • CCK– Allows custom content types, such as the one used by this node, which is "profile". Otherwise you're stuck with "Page", "Story", and sometimes stuff like "Image".
  • IMCE– Makes uploading, resizing, and placing images easy.
  • ConTemplate– Allows you to modify the templates for teaser and body of various node types. It's sort of like editing template.php, except if editing template.php were awesomely amazing and not a bad idea.
  • Date– Allows date field types. Essential for calendars, or anything else you want to sort by date (like the portfolios, for instance).
  • Pathauto– Lets you rename URIs in your site according to rules involving whatever tokens you want to use.
  • External Links– adds those nifty little arrows to all external links, and optionally makes all external links open in a new window.
  • HTMLawed– cleans up messy HTML and XHTML for valid markup. I keep all my markup squeaky clean, but some modules and widgets do dumb things like nest tags incorrectly, and this fixes that.
  • PNG-fix– cute little hack that fixes the inability of IE 5 and 6 to handle .png transparency.