Image slideshows are a popular method of displaying a larger volume of pictures in websites. Not only do they reduce the amount of page real-estate these photos would use but also if done correctly, can add a wow factor to any site. By making use of the handy Cycle plugin for jQuery, we can easily create a slideshow of our own, complete with previous and next navigation controls. Not a master of Javascript?

Here are a few sites that I have used for tutorial solutions. Whether I needed a quick trick, an in depth walk-through or simply a different perspective, I have found the following sites pretty useful. Take a look, you might find something to help you out in a bind

As the desire for neater and sleeker user interface increases, the ability to provide a website administrator with the ability to sort content that will appear on a list page. Granted, there are a number of great modules that allow for the sorting of pre-defined nodes, but sometimes you just have to sort items (whether they are nodes or rows from a custom table) in a completely custom way.

This is the second in a series of blog posts dedicated to explaining the important parts of building a custom Drupal website. Last time, we explained content types. In this post, we'll be giving an overview how to utilize "Views" to display your content on an easy to read custom page.

This is the first in a series of blog posts whose goal is to easily explain the important parts of building your own custom Drupal website. As the most important part of any website is displaying content to your viewers, we'll start by discussing what a content type is, how to create one, and how to display it to viewers of your website.

Have you ever had the need to retrieve e-mail information and utilize the data for display on a website, GUI, or for some other web-based purpose? Recently, I was tasked with doing just that. The goal was to retrieve thousands of e-mail submissions from a contact form and parse out the information into readable CSV format.

One common theme in great user interfaces is the ability to edit content in place without page reload. If you are displaying any kind of editable content to a user, that user will almost expect the ability to manipulate their content without having to work through one or more page reloads. Javascript is the perfect candidate to utilize this type of functionality within your website. More specifically, the jQuery framework will simplify your task even more.

This tutorial will explain how to take any image and proportionally shrink it to any size you define.

The three main goals of this function are:

1. Shrink an image to a defined size
2. Keep the new image proportional to the old image
3. Create the new image in the same directory as the old image with a defined prefix (i.e. 'tn_')

And here we go!