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Drupal FAQ: How do I remove the H1 title tag from the front page of a Drupal website?

I just ran into this problem on my new website, How I Sold My Business: A Personal Diary. Whenever you create a Drupal page you have to give it a title, but for the front page of a website that doesn't really make sense.

There are at least two ways to do this:

As I mentioned in my earlier Mac HTML (FrontPage) prototyping and my Mac HTML/CSS Napkin prototying theme articles, I've created my own HTML and CSS "prototyping" theme, which I've now named "Sketch".

As you can see from the screenshots below, my Sketch prototyping theme lets you rapidly create HTML forms and web pages with a theme that intentionally looks like a "back of the envelope" sketch.

Drupal form custom HTML FAQ: How can I wrap some custom HTML around a Drupal form, like placing a wrapper DIV tag around my form so I can add some custom CSS to style my form/div?

You can wrap an HTML DIV tag around your Drupal form by using the form prefix and suffix properties, like this:

$form['#prefix'] = '<div class="my-form-class">';
$form['#suffix'] = '</div>';

You can do this anywhere in your Drupal form builder function, so a larger part of your Drupal form builder function might look like this:

CakePHP flash fade out success messages: If you'd like to show fade out success messages in your CakePHP applications using jQuery, like the ones currently used by applications such as Twitter and Facebook, I thought I'd share the formula I came up with this weekend. While it includes touching a few different files, it's pretty easy, and once you've done the basic setup work you can display CakePHP fade out success messages in all of your web pages, and web applications.

jEdit

jEdit is an open source Java-based text editor that has been around for years. On the positive side it's free, reasonably quick, and most importantly, it has a ton of third-party plugins. All those plugins are what keeps me coming back to look at jEdit from time to time.