High Rock Media

High Rock Media, based in Boston, Massachusetts, develops custom web solutions for individuals and small businesses throughout North America & The UK using Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Wordpress, or just good old-fashioned HTML with CSS. We design with pure 100% XHTML standards compliant best practices. Danny Englander created and runs High Rock Media.

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One thing I love about Amsterdam is the amazing & broad spectrum of colors & textures. To capture this photo, I had to sit on a little side platform that hung out over the water. Just off to the side of this photo is the Montelbaans Tower.

We have been developing a Drupal 6 site where we needed more control over breadcrumb theming.

Using the PHP code below, you can get unique & identifying classes to each part of the breadcrumb. You can than use CSS to style it however you like. Add the code to your template.php file in /sites/all/themes/[your theme]. Also make sure to change "yourtheme" to the actual name of your theme. If you don't have this file you can create one. Either way make sure to clear your site cache for your custom breadcrumb classes to show up. That's all there is too it, the rest is up to you in terms of how you style with CSS.

This is a canal behind Zeedijk in Amsterdam. Zeedijk is one of the oldest sections of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. It's a sight to be seen and a great time of day to visit is late afternoon.

Some refer to this area as "Little Venice" as it's one of the only places in Amsterdam where water goes up right next to house just like in Venice.

Canon EOS 7D with 55 - 250 mm @55mm 3 image HDR composite in Photomatix, tweaked in Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta. KH3F88PADUMW

Another angle of Castle De Haar in The Netherlands taken from the
gardens. It was a picture-perfect day wandering around this wonderous castle.

3 image HDR processed in Photomatix. Canon EOS 7D with Tameron 10 - 24 MM @ 10mm

We were recently asked to create custom landing pages for a Google ad campaign for a Drupal site we developed. The issue we faced was that the layout for the landing page was not really close to anything in the existing theme.

Drupal by default can do custom node type templates based off any given custom content type (node-blog.tpl.php for example) but all that does is theme and customize the content area. In our case we needed to change the entire page layout. Well it turns out there is a Drupal PHP preprocess function that can help accomplish custom page templates.

My fiancée and I were recently in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and were fortunate enough to visit Rembrandt's House. What was even more amazing was that you could wonder around freely and take photos, rooms were not roped off.

That's how I was able to get this closeup shot, security at the house did not seem to mind I was taking a photo inches away from this work area with paints. The tricky part was that flash was not allowed and the light was rather dim.

Ok, so I caved and got an iPad the other day. One of the first things I noticed, there are some stunning and amazing ipad native apps in the app store. As a photographer I am always looking for the latest and greatest as far as apps go. Before it would have been on the iPhone, now it's for the iPad. 

And one of those pps is called LightTrac which can determine the sun's elevation and direction over any outdoor subject and show it to you on a map. For a photographer, this is ideal because you always want to know what the best time of day to photograph a landmark of specific location will be. LightTrac can help the photographer scout for new photo rich locations on a map ahead of time and the best times of day to shoot them.

I love it when we discover one of those wonderful Drupal gems that is not well documented and is very powerful in creating some nice Drupal Views theme customization. We were recently tasked with creating an events calendar that has a custom CCK field called "City". There's a drop down menu with a list of cities to assign the event to. So along with an event listing, you also see a city such as New York or Boston. The client wanted these cities to be color coded.

It was a rainy, cloudy & foggy day when we visited this stunning 12th century Dutch castle so I tried to leverage the weather conditions to my advantage to create moody and artistic photos.

Canon EOS 7D, 3 shot HDR composite in Photomatix, post processed in Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2. Tameron 10 - 24 mm @ 10mm.