Recently, I’ve been inspired by the Ghost blogging platform, which I think has a really clean and elegant default theme, so this WordPress theme borrows from some of the ideas that I liked from that theme.

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function phptemplate_engine_preprocess_page(&$variables) {
$alias = drupal_get_path_alias($_GET['q']);
if ($alias != $_GET['q']) {
$template_filename = 'page';
foreach (explode('/', $alias) as $path_part) {
$template_filename = $template_filename . '-' . $path_part;
$variables['template_files'][] = $template_filename;
}
}
}


Create a copy of page.tpl.php and rename it to page-YOURPATH.tpl.php and begin to make your own custom edits specific to that path. Now, if you’ve got a www.yoursite.com/blog path, then Drupal will pick up page-blog.tpl.php as the template for that page. The above code is for Drupal 6. You may need to clear Drupal’s cache after you’ve done this for it to take effect.

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The entire thing really boils down to a few lines of jQuery Javascript code and some CSS. When a event happens, such as a hover or a page load, a shine PNG image is changed from a background position of off the screen to one that crosses to the other side off the screen. With a little modification, I made the effect display a few seconds after the page loads using setTimeout, rather than when you hover over an element, which produced a great little embellishment for a button or a logo when a visitors comes to the site. It’s a great little effect that you used to only be able to do with Flash.

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In mobileSafari, go to the following address:
www.google.com/ig/i?source=mofe

That should allow you to load the proper iPhone optimized version of iGoogle. The only problem is that all my descriptions come up with “Information is temporarily unavailable.” I’m not sure if it’s going to stay that way, or if you’ll have different results, but at least this is better than using the standard mobile version of iGoogle.

Hope that helps someone out there.

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I found the following explanation from a Google employee on the Google support pages, which had a lot of angry people sounding off:

Hey everyone, I have an update for you. We’ve decided to direct iPhone users to the standard mobile iGoogle page. We’ve found that people hit iGoogle from lots of different phones — we want to ensure you’ll all see the same version.

Most or all of your existing content should translate over to the standard mobile version. The only exception would be any gadgets that aren’t compatible with most mobile browsers.

Honestly, Google, if you’re listening, this was the stupidest decision I’ve seen you make yet. Your iPhone support had been so great and suddenly you fuck all of us iPhone users without even any notice. Not only am I pissed off because we’re losing some great functionality that I used on a daily basis, but also because it tarnishes my view of Google, which up until now, I believed could do no wrong. Well, you did wrong Google. You really fucked it up on this one. As I was discussing with someone on Twitter, more people need to get angry about this and they need to create some visible public outcry.

If you’re as pissed off as I am about this majorly bone-headed move my Google that basically tells us iPhone users that we don’t matter anymore, then go over to this discussion and tell Google how upset you are.

P.S. Google, your new favicon also sucks!

UPDATE: I found a partial fix, check it out.

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