Aaron Dudenhofer's blog

Designers spend a lot of time picking out the perfect fonts for their designs. When those fonts are replaced with web-safe fonts, it can discourage the designer, because the final website doesn't look as clean or stylish as their initial mockup. It is for these reasons that dynamic font replacement techniques have become so popular. But if you aren't familiar with your options, you may find that you are working with unnecessary restrictions. Read more

Recently we had a client request the control of how the scrollbars display in the content of their website. At first, remembering back in some old school styling days, I thought we could just use CSS to control it. After that I figured there would be some jQuery that could do the trick. What I found was that this feature is more complicated than I first expected. Read more

A lot of neat and exciting things are happening in the world of the web. With the advancement of both HTML 5 and CSS 3, the way we experience the web will soon be changing dramatically. Some argue that HTML 5 will mean the downfall of Flash. It is already being used on mobile devices to allow the viewing of videos and audio players. Despite these advancements, one major browser is a constant hold up. I'll let you guess which one that is!Read more

Coming up on June 27-28, there will be a Drupal Camp in Chicago. We have always enjoyed making the short trip to Chicago to interact with fellow Drupalers. 

This year, I have submitted a session about Revitalizing Local User Groups. I will be presenting what I have learned here in Indianapolis and try to help our community leaders to come up with better plans, more events, and just become more involved over all.Read more

Next week, Web Easy Media will be launching it's first Drupal Class! The Basics class will teach you how to install Drupal, what you get out of the box, running updates and backups, and how to know what modules and themes to use.

The class is targeted to users who have never used Drupal, or have installed Drupal and then didn't know where to go after installation. This will take place at:Read more

When creating style sheets, it is easy for the code in the style sheets to get out of hand. One way to increase load times is to shorten the number of lines in your CSS. Some do it simply in the format of their CSS, by conforming the layout of the brackets and limiting CSS comments. In addition to some format changes,  I also like to implement CSS Shorthand.
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For those who are following activity in the Drupal community, you would have known that there was a Drupal Camp going on in Chicago this weekend. This was an event that shouldn't be missed by any local area Drupal professionals.Read more

Everyone has their own interpretation about what the role of a themer is - what the knowledge level should be in different internet languages like CSS, HTML, PHP, JQuery/Javascript. Many designers think that they can't theme for Drupal if they don't know PHP. In the same sense, many developers asume that a themer must know PHP. To consider yourself a themer - it isn't REQUIRED! Read more