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The Oil Paintings of Chen Yifei

Lyemium Editorial — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:49:41 +0000

The Zhouzhuang is an ancient town and one of the earliest famous river towns in China. The Hometown Memory oil painting captures an oriental beauty similar to the river town in Venice Italy.

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A Breif Overview of the Features Module

Lyemium Editorial — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:09:29 +0000

Many of us have posed the question as to why we need to enabled and download the same module over and over to achieve similar results. How do we speed this process up? The goal of the features module is to satisfy this specfic use case.

What is it?

The module description has features as a “module is like any other Drupal module except that it declares its components (e.g. views, contexts, CCK fields, etc.) in its .info file so that it can be checked, updated, or reverted programmatically.”

In simpler terms the feature module is a collection of Drupal entities bundled together to satisfy a certain use-case, for example a blog or an image gallery.

The idea is to make syncing of different sites as effective and efficicent as possible. For example, if someone were to ask how one would set up a blog. You, as the Drupal expert, would mention a laundry list of modules to install just to have a functional blog.

However, the purpose of the features module is to provide a shortcut to configuring a Drupal site out of the box. The feature module is to deploy all configurations and modules necessary for someone looking to deploy a blog or even an image gallery with the right configuration thus reducing development tweeks with actual usability.

Why Should I Use it?

Ease of use. Greatly reduces the amount of time to download and configure a Drupal base site.
Ability to reuse configurations.
Exportables. Features can be used with a version control like SVN or GIT
Task origented projects
Compatibility with popular drupal modules
Saves time on development

Benifits of Features

Saves things to a module instead of a database
Easy to move site configuartions between databases
Avoid misktakes like updating database
Reduces the chances of losing data.
The future module writes the php code for us in a module format further reducing developement time.

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Street Art by Faith47 from South Africa

Lyemium Editorial — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:12:03 +0000

Below are just a few murals we here at Lyemium found outstanding. To view more work from Faith47 click here.

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Illustrations for Inspirations 14

Lyemium Editorial — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:00:44 +0000

Jessica Fortner

BloodyVoodoo

Jacob Dahlstrup Jensen

Peter Bowen

behnke

Sam Spratt

Mike Giant

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Floating Graffiti from Brazil

Lyemium Editorial — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:17:35 +0000

Tthe name boa mistura meaning "a good mixture" consists of 5 artists known indidivualy as: Arkoh, Derko, Pahg, Purone and Rdick. These artists worked torgethered with residents to paint and reface the winding 'vecos' with uplifting messages. Viewed at the right angle with creative illusiion effects and the right distance the work presents a strechted-out 3D perspective which causes words like amor 'love' to float in the passageway.

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22 Inspiring Vintage Advertisements

Lyemium Editorial — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:09:50 +0000

It's quite obvious how times have changed. In this article we have ads ranging from 1940s to the 1990s.

There are a few differences in these ads; one being a more rockwellian painting type approach compared to the advertisements of today but the basics remain the same. The emphaisis is on the product where the message must be clear, consice and capture the attention of it's targeted audience.

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Faces of the City

Lyemium Editorial — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:02:10 +0000

You can view more projects via his website.

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The Artwork of Cathie Bleck

Lyemium Editorial — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:55:13 +0000

View more here

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Drupal Showcase: Creative Web Designs

Lyemium Editorial — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 02:26:04 +0000

What is Drupal?

In basic terms Drupal is a free and open source content management system (CMS) distributed under the GNU General Public License. Drupal's functionality relies on its core system and its contributed modules which are add-ons to increase site functionality.

Show Me Some Examples

The following list consists of a diversity of sites ranging from non-profit organizations to government and everything that falls inbetween. These are just a few sites that create an extrodinary web experience.

Washington Examiner Campaign 2012

Amnesty International

The Grammy's

Deejay

Louvre

Moosaique

Mother Jones

Societe Generale

The New Republic

This is Tommy

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Fresh E-Commerce Designs

Lyemium Editorial — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:26:33 +0000

Today, e-commerce is more than a buzz word; it's all around us. When we think of e-commerce, we think about electronic payments transfered over protocols (some of us) with the ability to make a purchase in only a few clicks. Today we take a look at some of the well designed ecommerce sites that the web has to offer.

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