Du Vien Trang is a Freelance Web Designer / Developer based in Scotland. This is his portfolio, blog and his digital playground.

Yeah, this is old news by now but I've been wanting to express my opinion on this for a while about the chosen Design company (Mark Boulton Design) that is to redesign the Drupal.org site.

First of all, congratulations to Mark Boulton and his team for being selected out of the many other excellent design firms.

Over the past year, i've been following quite closely with Mark Boulton work when i first became interested in grid-based column layout designs and Typography.  read more »

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 »

Today, while I was doing a quick search on Google on my own site to see what result it will bring up, I was surprised to find a broken link which took a user to /taxonomy/term/CrossBrowserTesting.com page that doesn't exist on my site. I really don't know how that link ever popped up on Google.  read more »

I was contacted by a web agency over the weekend to help add a 'search by location' feature to one of the client's website (CLS Group). The function of it was to show the location and area where their homes were located and provide information about the homes. This was simply achieve using CCK and views modules, and the cool hierarchical select module. hierarchical select uses Jquery for a sliding effect to show multiple select group. You can see a working example at clsgroup website. The site runs on Drupal 5.7

Generally if a website can be reached by both www. or without in the domain name, it really doesn't matter much as this article will tell you. However, some SEO guru will argue that search engine will treat this as two separate pages, therefore can cause duplicate contents which isn't good. I'm still not 100% sure about this but to be safe it should be done anyway.  read more »