If you are a web developer, like me you have probably grown to rely on FireFox as a web development tool. Whether you develop with Drupal, Joomla, CSS / HTML, PHP or some other CMS platform or language, it's surely a staple of your web dev toolbox. Lately, it seems that FireFox 3.6.x for Mac has been running very slow and has become quite bloated. I often get the infamous spinning wheel after the browser has been running for more than a day.

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.

Over the course of a day as a web developer, I often need to do very quick conversions of information. I have compiled a short list of eclectic sites that come in handy for this type of thing.