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Drupal and CKEditor

Recipe for Customizing Your WYSIWYG

The purpose of this recipe is to turn over a WYSIWYG editor that the client will understand better. They will be able to visually see the different header and block styles before they select them. They will also see the styles applied within the WYSIWYG editor before they save their content.

There are a lot of changes to follow, which is why we have created this recipe. We try to be as systematic as possible when implementing this so more time is focused on the custom styles rather than the setup.

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CSS Shorthand

For cleaner and shorter code

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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Ryan Ours's picture

CSS Font-Sizes

Best practices for readability and accessibility of your web-fonts.

As a front-end web developer or designer, you may be confused about which unit to use when decalring font-sizes in your CSS. Here I will attempt to explain what each of the possible units means and why one is better than another.Read more

Aaron Dudenhofer's picture

10 Drupal Theme Functions

Themers don't need to know PHP, but a little knowledge can go a long way!

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

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