This tutorial with guide you through how to make a professional looking navigation bar for your site. This tutorials takes in to account that you have a reasonable knowledge of Photoshop.
The result will be like the following:
FileZilla FTP Client – http://filezilla-project.org/
A FTP client to upload documents from your computer to your web server. Also supports SFTP for secure transfering of files.
xampp – http://www.apachefriends.org/
A bundled installer of Apache, PHP, MySQL and a few other programs. This allows you to set up a server on your computer accessible through http://localhost which saves you having to upload the files to a server during development.
Notepad++ – http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
An extension of notepad in Windows with more features including syntax highlight for PHP, HTML, javascript and many more languages.
GIMP (GNU Image Maninpulation Program) – http://www.gimp.org/
A worthy alternative to the hugely expensive Photoshop.
Paint.net – http://www.paint.net/
Based on the simplicity of MS Paint, Paint.net takes this a lot further with the introduction of many tools that are present in GIMP and Photoshop.
It appears Microsoft is making web design testing a lot easier (or at least taking some time out by removing the need for VirtualPCs with different versions of IE on) with a FREE application called Microsoft SuperPreview.
With a large number of people still using Internet Explorer 6, this is nothing but a good thing until IE6 is gone for good.
SuperPreview is available for download in beta from Microsoft. The download weighs in at 250MB and requires .NET.
For more information on SuperPreview see the article on Sitepoint called Microsoft SuperPreview: a New Way to Test Websites.
Also check out IETester which is also free.
This tutorial will guide you through how to create a simple gallery within Drupal 6 using CCK, Views and a few more custom modules. You can see an example of what the tutorial will create by visiting http://gallery.jamestombs.co.uk/
This tutorial was written with the following versions of Drupal and modules:
Update: Modules have been updated to the latest versions as of 20 April 2009, version numbers are in brackets after the links above.
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