Drupal 8: Missing breadcrumbs in active trail
06 Feb 2019
Drupal 8: Some nodes have missing breadcrumbs in active trail. One partial fix it to modify the url alias patterns.
Blog: work
A collection of thoughts that may or may not be interesting.
Drupal 7 responsive layouts with Omega, Delta and Context
08 May 2013
Summary: I recently completed a responsive layout Drupal 7 build, which was on a tight deadline. As there was less time for R&D than I would have liked, I had to launch into the build before fully understanding some of the principles I had committed myself to. With a bit of luck this may offer some idea of what is involved in setting up a responsive layout without falling into some of the traps I did. Overview:
Monday To Friday Site Publicity
25 Feb 2013
A few weeks ago I noticed the Mail Online had an article about the Monday to Friday site I built last year: Mail Online article about the Monday To Friday site. It's always nice to see your work referenced by well-known brands! Mail Online Article [PDF version - if the link goes dead!]
CSS step arrows
21 Sep 2012
Recently had to make a multi step form which had a step navigation and an arrow that points in the direction of travel, so you could see how far you had got through the form. Normally I would have used images to generate the arrows, but as there was a good chance that both the size of the text and the colours would change, I wanted to do a CSS version that would remove the tedious image updates that would have followed. Due to the way the form was set up, I used JQuery for much of the element control.
Context Module provides method active trail menu by content type
30 May 2012
Once of the challenges I have found when using views is maintaining the menu active trail classes through the view listings to the content nodes themselves.