Somewhere between design and development

It's not totally clear how to connect BlogPress - a cheap blogging app on the iPhone - to a Drupal blog. There's a bit of tinkering needed on the Drupal side to enable XML-RPC and the Blog API along with the permissions and then the setting up of BlogPress.

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In a moment of wondering how to get the 'Read more' link in teasers I came across a module that does this. I felt that that would be overkill and so I had a poke around in node.tpl.php and found that, unsurprisingly, there are the two variables you need to do this easily from within a template ($teaser is a boolean for whether a node is a teaser or full, and $node_url is for the link).

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stubside.com

stubside theme screenshot

The site, which runs on Drupal, has a theme that was inspired by the photo I took of Sydney Opera House and by a document I saw a few years ago in a book where the large clear sans-serif typeface was underlined to the width of the page by a thin line giving a strong link to the paragraphs underneath which were all indented the same amount giving a strong vertical line.

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www.gosportroadrunners.org.uk

Gosport Road Runners Screenshot

After it had stagnated for a few years I took on the job of webmaster at my running club back in 2005. I redesigned it from a dark a moody theme with some horrific animated gifs and centred text into a popular and welcoming site that I endeavor to update weekly.

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