Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and digital playground.

Finally, there is now 1pixelout player for Drupal which works in the same way as this one but can also be hooked into other modules soon. It also uses the newer version from WordPress Audio Player website. Check out the screen cast:  read more »

This may be a trivial case where user 1 (uid 1) can actually be deleted. This is the first user that you create on a fresh installation of Drupal and allows for full administration rights like a root user. But when you think about it, it is critical that this user should be prevented from being able to be deleted, otherwise you are completely locked out from doing any full administration on your site and to try and get this user back is a real pain in the ass. Just as bad is the fact you can also delete anonymous user (uid 0).  read more »

CCK has been significantly reworked for Drupal 6, both to add new functionality and to provide stronger and code and APIs. We've tried to respond to many of the things that were often requested but were difficult or impossible to do in the Drupal 5 version: streamline the process of creating fields, use drag-n-drop to reorganize fields and values, provide a user-friendly 'Add more' button for multiple values, give developers an API and more tools to customize CCK behavior, and provide more documentation.

Many of the things you see in the latest code would not have been possible without all the new Drupal 6 and Views 2 features. Drupal 6, CCK 2 and Views 2 make a great combination!

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Now there is no excuse not to upgrade modules to Drupal 6.

If you have ever developed a site which heavily relies on Taxonomies to built up sections of a large website, you know how tedious and frustrating of a tasks it can become.  read more »

FreshBooks is another online invoicing service for small businesses. Like Blinksale and Simplybill, which also prepare invoices online, it's a somewhat spare utility that does just one business function.

But this one's feature set is not quite as spare the other utilities. There are more options for managing clients, projects, and contacts. The product will generate recurring invoices and auto-bill customers. There are several useful reports you can run. There's a rudimentary time-logging function (useful for billing services; see also Tick). There's even a support ticket module, although I'm not sure this belongs in an invoicing utility but I guess if a support issue is causing a customer to not pay you, you might want to track it here.

And here's a Drupal module for it: FreshBooks module

Here's an excellent way of adding videos to your contents, thanks to Sean Effel of drupaltherapy.com for providing the screencast.  read more »

Today, while I was doing a quick search on Google on my own site to see what result it will bring up, I was surprised to find a broken link which took a user to /taxonomy/term/CrossBrowserTesting.com page that doesn't exist on my site. I really don't know how that link ever popped up on Google.  read more »

This screencast provides a 34 minute overview of the new features that Views 2 offers. This video shows off not all the new features, but it is a good starting point if you want to learn how to use Views 2.

Written and recorded by Greg Knaddison.  read more »

I was contacted by a web agency over the weekend to help add a 'search by location' feature to one of the client's website (CLS Group). The function of it was to show the location and area where their homes were located and provide information about the homes. This was simply achieve using CCK and views modules, and the cool hierarchical select module. hierarchical select uses Jquery for a sliding effect to show multiple select group. You can see a working example at clsgroup website. The site runs on Drupal 5.7

Joomla to Drupal

Migrate Joomla to Drupal. Tested on Joomla 1.0.15 to Drupal 5.7.
Joomla module features:

• import Joomla Users include "Realname". You MUST install Profiles module. Joomla module will create a new profile field called "profile_realname"
• import Joomla Sections & categories

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