Recommended by elsterama on July 30, 2010 via Tutorial9
This is Tutorial9 Community Showcase #2, a collection of user submitted recent creations. Take a look below, and be sure to join in next time if we missed you!
HTML5 video is great as it doesn't require any 3rd party plugins and works in most mobile browsers. However, it is not supported in every browser.. yet.
Also, browsers supporting the – tags require different codecs and have inconsistent player UIs.
MediaElement.js is a jQuery plugin which enables you to use the tag with one H.264 file (you can also include OGG or WebM, but you don't have to).Continue
Recommended by elsterama on July 29, 2010 via Dries Buytaert
This year in my keynote at DrupalCon San Francisco, I mentioned that the elephants are coming. Well, earlier this week Capgemini, one of the world's foremost consulting providers with 95,000 employees, announced a new service, Capgemini Immediate. I'm pleased to say that they're using Drupal as a foundational technology for their new Immediate platform.Continue
Recommended by elsterama on July 28, 2010 via Six Revisions
For most people, the web looks and feels like things are all peachy — vibrant, alive, new, fresh. However for those of us in the know, below this facade exists a consistent cycle of death and rebirth.
While many technologies and practices have left this world and passed on to the next (R.I.P Netscape), some have been more resilient. Supposedly dead elements of the web are rising from the grave, continuing to haunt us.
This article will explore the state of the web zombie invasion!
Recommended by elsterama on July 27, 2010 via [Re]Encoded.com
Again it’s time for us to share some awesome Photoshop tutorials. This time we’ll have a look at a great collection of tutorials that help us make websites. These can be great inspiration and teach you some new tips and tricks. Remember to play around a bit with colors and settings to get that own special look. We hope you’ll enjoy!
Recommended by elsterama on July 26, 2010 via Dries Buytaert
The Drupal trademark policy was launched officially about 11 months ago. As explained in my blog post on the Druapl trademark policy, the purpose of the policy is to create a level playing field for all. It allows everyone to use the trademark without administrative hassle, while at the same time keeping some control and oversight to avoid dilution and misuse. For example, we all know the scarcity of cool domain names, and how frustrating it can be for a local Drupal user group to find that their domain name has already been taken by a commercial entity. The trademark policy seeks to resolve this problem.Continue
Recommended by elsterama on July 26, 2010 via Drupal
TicketCake.com is an event ticketing and promotion start-up that recently launched using Drupal as its framework. The website features an innovative design by White Label Graphics which balances functionality and simplicity.
Because Drupal has many ways to display dynamic content, finding the right way to implement a design can be a problem in itself. To overcome this obstacle, the Ticket Cake team focused a significant amount of time creating wireframes for the project.Continue
Recommended by elsterama on July 24, 2010 via Six Revisions
JavaScript libraries, ICEfaces, Adobe Flash 4, Microsoft Silverlight, and now, HTML5 have been competing for web dominance as the world wide web is thrown into a new era — an era dominated by rich internet applications (RIA for short).Continue
Recommended by elsterama on July 22, 2010 via ReadWriteWeb
Drupal software, support, and hosting company Acquia announced that its Drupal Gardens leaves private beta today. Drupal Gardens is a content management & social publishing system, offering "Drupal-as-a-service" and greatly simplifying the creation and management of Drupal websites.
Prior to Drupal Gardens, those wanting to utilize Drupal to build their sites had to download and install the code themselves. Continue
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