Alexander on Web Development

I am tweaking and improving the user interface of the user registration interface of the Bibliotesis proyect. Drupal's extensive dense documentation is the amazon of links and content. Although this is actually a very good thing, if you happen to get lost in it then you may have to resort to Google to find your way through it. In today's fancy asynchronous multistep Drupal form research spike I found some treasures hidden inside the docs so good that I had to feature them in my blog:

**The Forms API Quickstart Guide:**

I found this video on http://www.nicklewis.org/

After a more than a couple 24 hour coding marathons today I am very proud to announce that Dialogo Digital (http://dialogodigital.com, #EditoresDialogo) launched it's redesign to the public. The modern design was conceived and created by web designer Joel Martínez of String Puerto Rico (http://stringpr.com/) in late September 2009. It took me around 8 weeks to convert Joel's standards compliant XHTML into a full Drupal theme.

Three main templates were developed: one for the front page, one for the news sections, and one for the news articles.

PG Engineering Solutions (http://pges.net), a Puerto Rico based Engineering firm in charge of developing projects such as the San Juan, Puerto Rico Urban Train is now using Drupal for it's web site.

I built this site in only one week using a vanilla Drupal 6 distribution (http://drupal.org/drupal-6.15). A premium theme from TopNotchThemes (http://www.topnotchthemes.com) was used in order to reduce both development time and cost.

According to 3i/PricewaterhouseCoopers, in the first three months of the 2000, a record US $22 billion of venture capital was pumped into a record 1330 Internet start up deals in the US alone - the same number of deals and more than twice as much money as in the whole of 1998.* Worldwide in 2000, business plans raised nearly $200 billion of external function for start ups, management buyouts and expansion - two-thirds of tit for technology businesses.

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I went to Borders - a religious practice - looking for a book that re-introduced me to the color theory, but with a focus on how to apply it to the web I found this 341 page jewel.