I’ve seen a few blog posts and screencasts over the past few weeks about Drupal’s every growing list of modules - most notably Matt Petrowsky’s outstanding screencast “Top Drupal Modules” at www.gotdrupal.com. While useful to those new to Drupal, they all seem to focus on the ones that all Drupal developers know about (or should know about at least).

This week kicks off a series of blog posts that will cover what we consider to be the top five old school CSS techniques that everybody should know.

There’s a lot of great stuff out there about the new cutting-edge CSS3 techniques which, while brilliant (and I’m SO going to be using them soon), don’t have sufficient browser support to implement them in full scale commercial projects just yet.

We’re therefore going to go old school in this series and cover some of the techniques that we use on a regular basis when developing sites here at THUSA.

Recently Global Maritime Legal Solutions contracted THUSA's newly formed web design and development division to create a new and improved look for their internet presence. The main impetus behind this change was the inclusion of a new e-learning service that introduces distance learning on all aspects of customs and excise law to the South African market.

The new department specialises in creating high-quality internet communication products from high-end email marketing campaigns to complex web-based applications and e-commerce-driven websites.

THUSA makes use of the Drupal content management system which allows for complex functionality while being user-friendly enough to enable clients to control their own online content. Gareth Davies, lead front-end developer, is passionate about the need for this: