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Made in Brixton: The New Face of the Clock
Will Aspinall and Neil Lambeth have a new take on the clock; as a piece of kinetic art and a revolutionary timepiece.
The clock has a spiral face and, as the whole body of the clock turns, a ball rolls gently along the spiral channel passing markers that denote the current time. Once it reaches the centre of the spiral the ball falls through a hole and returns to the outer band where it starts again. Each journey to the centre of the clock takes 12 hours.
Styling a Drupal Site : Made to Measure
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In the article 'Many Ways to Style a Site : Ready to Wear' I introduced the notion of styling, or theming, a Drupal site with a ready made theme. Another approach to styling is to develop your own design by using a 'vanilla' theme or a 'framework' theme as it's base. This gives you a plain, 'no frills' site that can be developed according to your design requirements.
Colin Firth Launches Brightwide
A new website called Brightwide has been launched as a platform for independent social and political films. The idea behind the site is to showcase films that champion global socio-political causes and encourage comment, or even prompt viewers to join a campaign. Founded by Colin Firth, Brightwide is a collaboration of experts from the worlds of film, campaigning, journalism and digital media.
Styling a Drupal Site : Ready to Wear
As with many things in Drupal there are different approaches to achieve the same, or similar, goal. Styling, or theming, is the same in this respect although the approach taken is often governed, but not always, by experience. In this article I will look at the easiest and most basic way of styling a Drupal site, showing that even if you have very little experience you can have a great looking site in no time at all.
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