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I (heart) panels, and my clients are crazy for them. It's simply the most intuitive way to handle content layout.

All of the recent projects I've worked on have been designed around making panels fit in easily. One of the tricks I've discovered is a simple technique to use in template.php for keeping some block regions around (e.g. regions in the header/footer area, useful for nav, banner ads, etc) even when using the "Disable Drupal blocks/regions" checkbox from the Advanced pane.

Here's the code:

HTML 5 is the upcoming major revision of the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the main method of marking up content for sharing on the World Wide Web. HTML's development stopped at HTML 4.01 in 1999, and since then web content has evolved so much that current HTML specifications are inadequate for today's requirements.

It makes sense to forgo database tables and server-side code when you need to store a limited amount of non-sensitive data. Accessing this data can be a snap with jQuery because the library was built to traverse XML documents with ease. With some custom JavaScript and jQuery magic you can create some interesting widgets. A good way to demonstrate this functionality is by building a browsable Amazon.com books widget.

We love useful stuff. For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative CSS tools and related resources. We have been contacting developers, encouraging them to improve their tools and release their handy little apps to the public. Last year we prepared and published some of them in a series of smashing posts about CSS. Now again is the time to give these tools the attention they deserve.

I’ve written before about one of my favorite sites on the web for quickly learning web development skills: W3Schools. All of the tutorials housed at the site are free, and they’re designed to equip you with useful skills very quickly, so that you don’t have to become a complete expert on, say, CSS (cascading style sheets) in order to start getting impressive results with it. The site has added quite a lot of good tutorials and is worth a visit even if you’ve been there before.

Today Lullabot released an exciting new project into the Drupal community. It's the Form builder module: an AJAX, Drag and Drop interface for constructing forms in Drupal. We hope that it will become the defacto standard in building forms in Drupal, replacing our inconsistent form-building tools that are spread across CCK, Webform, Profile, and other modules.

We’ve all felt that haze that forms around your eyes when you’re trying to study lines and lines of code from a written tutorial. After an hour or so, you’re eyes simply become too weakened to continue reading. That’s why I’m such a huge fan of video tutorials. You can sit back and learn at your own pace. I’ve compiled a list of over thirty screencasts that are guaranteed to help you.

Hello Drupalers!

NetBeans 6.5 Release Candidate is out (with right PHP editing features : http://www.netbeans.org/kb/trails/php.html) and along with that I have released an update to the existing Drupal support in NetBeans. Please feel free to try out the enhanced wizard for assisting Drupal module development.

Yesterday, I took some time to “celebrate” our 6 month anniversary by revisiting our older tutorials. Sometimes, it’s easy to forget how much incredible material that we have on this site - material that some of you may not even know about! If you’re like me, you use the weekend to catch up on your learning - since work takes up so much time. Today, I’ll list the top twenty tutorials on NETTUTS (in no particular order) that will jump-start your education.

GCal Events is a module which will display a block of upcoming events. The source for the events is a google calendar xml feed.

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