Husky Ninja Blogs

Well, what the heck else are you going to do when you're stuck inside? Search Amazon for toilet paper? Wait for the next shoe to drop? Godzilla to attack? Don't worry, all those worst case scenarios are going to happen, and I will cover them here as long as the electricity holds out.

This Web Site's Designer Is Not a Japanophile
April 4, 2020
I've been working on moving this old site o'mine to Drupal 8 (still on-going since this site was originally built using a Linotype machine), and I started to notice a pattern in design selection. So there is a lot of elements from 17th & 18th…
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Breadcrumbs with Crumbs
June 19, 2015
OK, back to the topic of configuring Drupal. As we last left our hero (me), I had installed Views to help build a logical URL structure and related block level navigation. Still, there remained the issue of the breadcrumbs, which were not very…
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Setting Up a Static Web Site in AWS
June 18, 2015
I would like to take a break from writing about all this fun Drupal configuration and CSS coding and stuff, and give a few minutes to say how awesome Amazon Web Services is. As I have mentioned, all of this fun and excitement is hosted on AWS. Back…
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Views, baby!
June 15, 2015
Drupal 7, as I mentioned earlier, has the default UX of a screaming child, and it takes all kinds of modules or custom coding (or just modules) to make it play nice with users, the internet, and everything. One of those modules is so important to…
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Social Sharing with Metatag and Service Links
June 13, 2015
Drupal is like a CMS locked in time, with new versions coming out once every four or five years, and that is a long time in the development cycle that is the internet. Since version 7 was released, social media has grown into almost every corner of…
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A Rose by Any Other Real Name
June 13, 2015
Drupal is, as installed, a hot mess that has the UX of an angry gorilla. URLs don't really make any semantic sense, even with path settings configured, and there is a lack of relationship between the content and the intended structure of the site.…
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Two More Text Effects Using CSS3
June 12, 2015
In addition to the 3D CSS text effect in the hero there are two other CSS effects applied to the title; neon glow (which is a commonly known CSS effect) and stroke. Each one of these are based on others works with a slight twist. First, the neon…
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3D Effect with Center Horizon for Text Using CSS
June 11, 2015
While I was working on the template for this site I wanted to find the opportunity to take advantage of CSS3 effects for text and use this for the title over the standard hero image. While I was working on the main site I ran across a number of cool…
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