PHP for Designers (or Wanting to Drive Your Sister's Cadillac)

"Why use parentheses instead of brackets?" These are the types of basic questions asked by designers learning PHP. Such questions befuddle instructors and annoy developer-types in PHP classes, but making PHP accessible to designers is a huge leap toward advancing Drupal adoption. Drupal instructors are fumbling to create PHP courses that are designer-friendly and don't scare away this huge group of potential Drupal users.

And designers are hungry to learn PHP. While they've been walking down the website creation street with their bag of design, CSS and HTML tricks, their PHP-literate sister is zooming by in her shiny black Cadillac.

Create Headlines With Cufon

For years, web designers have been faced with two choices when creating a text-element on a page: 1) Stick with web fonts: Arial, Tahoma, Georgia, et al, and use HTML text, or 2) Use text as images.

Preload images with CSS, not JS

There's really no reason you should need Javascript to preload images when it can be done with a little CSS.

Multipart HTML Emails With Drupal

Multi-part email format allows you to send both textual and HTML-formatted emails concurrently. These days, most web-systems should support this. In the following blog post, we discuss and show a quick example of how to send multi-part e-mails with Drupal