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Finally managed to update Austere theme for both Drupal 5 and 6.

It took awhile because i kept messing up the CVS tagging and branching, hence the big jump in the version... yikes! sorry. Really need to get my head around this damn CVS. I should be reading more of the Drupal Handbook.

Anyway, many thanks to Francis Pilon (of Raincity Studios) for cleaning up the code and making it conform more to Drupal coding standards. Read more about Austere theme for Drupal 5 and 6 updated

Here's an excellent way of adding videos to your contents, thanks to Sean Effel of drupaltherapy.com for providing the screencast. Read more about Adding video using Filefield + jQuery Media

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website

Jakob Neilsen, one of the leading usability, analysis and User Interface design experts in the world has announced 10 Best Application UIs of 2008 last week.

The results are: Read more about Jakob Neilsen: 10 Best Application UIs of 2008

My friend Chris was commissioned to do some artwork for 32music.com (Irn Bru) at Cabaret Voltaire for the duration of the Edinburgh festival.

I thought they were really cool so thought i should also post them up for all to see. Sorry for the bad quality pics. Read more about Artwork for 32music

Anyone who has used a FTP program will know how cumbersome it can be to download or upload individual files. To save some time, here's an excellent tip on copying/archiving a whole site with FTP access, thanks to Khalid.

All that is required is to place a PHP script on your server and run the script via web browser. Read more about How to copy/archive a site with only FTP access