Ivan Soto

Last night I released the first version of Cleanr, a Drupal administration theme that tries to make the interface more simple and clean. This theme was mostly created for site maintainers, usually clients that don't know much about Drupal but need to work with it everyday. The main goal is to improve Drupal administration UX the most I can. Here are some screenshots of the first version of the theme:

_Administer page with an error message_

_Collapsible fieldsets_

The old blog in Wordpress is now gone and I will be using Drupal from now on for my blog. The main reason of this is because I work with Drupal, it's also more flexible and overall I feel more comfortable working on it.

So far, besides the change on the platform there are not so many changes, but let's list them:

Design

Even cleaner, brighter and more attractive. I like to keep it simple, I love blue tones and my personal blog is the perfect excuse to use them.

The Work section also sports some nice selectors and some jQuery AJAX godness.

Today I was reading the comments on the article "Opera: Apple, Ubuntu should include browser ballout screen too" and like always, everyone was commenting about how unsuccessful Opera is, hence the article. It really is and anyone that works on web development will know how good Opera is, but at the same time knows why it's not their main browser.

I don't want to find _the_ cause why Opera fails to get a piece of market share, I just want to give my personal opinion on why Opera and any other software that doesn't use native controls fails to impress me.

If you are developing applications for Android and you want to make the menu look kinda like the native applications, you can use these icons or, even better, use the layer style and use your own shapes. These icons were used for Twit2go and you are free to use them in your application.

Since a while I've been talking about this OS and how I liked the way it can do multitasking. And now the more I use it the more I like it, so I decided to start building an application for it and give the OS a complete try. I bought the first Android device, the G1 from HTC and even when it's not the best phone out there, it comes with Android OS so that's enough for me. I started building this Twitter application knowing nothing of Java, which maybe was a bad idea but I managed to get this running in less than a week. As a web developer it's kind of hard to start understanding how phone or desktop applications behave but I'm getting used to it now.

Maybe you will be interested in reading Building a web application layout 1 if you need to know how did I setup the xhtml and basic CSS. In this part we will try to acomplish two things: Insert a javascript dropdown menu and apply the design I did just to this application.