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Here are a few extremely useful modules that seem to fly under the radar among Drupal developers.

pngFix Module

This module includes the jQuery pngFix plugin, which uses the Twin Helix method of providing PNG transparency support to the IE 6 browser. The module provides an administrative interface where you provide a list of jQuery selectors to target for pngFix.

Here at LevelTen we have a few book clubs going on. Right now, one of the books we are reading is Agile Estimation and Planning. LevelTen is in the process of implementing an iterative development process which seems to make great sense for small to mid-level Web projects.

Web projects are strange beasts. There are out-of-the-box tools that provide a ton of value. Still small firms with small budgets often have need for custom development that is often prohibitively expensive. The tools to do great things cheaply and quickly just aren't there yet (but progress is being made rapidly).

Earlier this week, Stephanie put together a really cool design for our portfolio section on the LevelTenDesign.com Web site. It was based off of a jQuery snippet she found that emulates the Coda slider (http://www.panic.com/coda/).

I've been developing in Drupal for a couple of years now. As LevelTen adopts Drupal, I'm seeing people have moments where something clicks and for a split second it seems like you are looking directly into the future of Web development.

That moment, for me, was in discovering the long-since-deprecated module Flexinode. Before Flexinode, all new content types in Drupal required a .module file that implemented a number of hooks and the creation of database tables and fields. This was something that really only a Web developer would do.