Friday, November 07, 2008
aWebFactory - Filtering Drupal Views Dynamically (or, "Leverage the big CMS and web application frameworks! Only losers start from scratch!)" & And now for something completely different: Drupal - the quiet revolution: "the 'old' Drupal has recently undergone a mind blowing jaw dropping quiet revolution, overshadowed by the Drupal 6.0 release, but of tremendous consequence to all working with this framework: many moons ago we could use, first cck + views, then i18n in Drupal 5.x; more recently, pathauto thoroughly renovated and ironed out, now we got FeedAPI + Feed Element Mapper, a now thoroughly usable Hierarchical Select for taxonomy browsing (works in exposed filters in views), Panels 2 and nodequeue (a quiet revolution in itself), and very soon Views 2, ... (and the list goes on)."
Ubercart | drupal.org: "an e-commerce suite developed for Drupal. It has been designed with the end user in mind, focusing on usability in three key areas: store configuration, product and catalog creation, and order administration. On the front end, all major systems are configurable and integrate with the standard Drupal systems (node, taxonomy, user, etc.). On the back end, the settings pages and order administration pages have been designed with ease of use in mind, and we are constantly working to lower the barrier to entry for new Ubercart users."
Notes and code from my DrupalCampLA2008 presentation "jQuery + Drupal" | aWebFactory: "Presentation in powerpoint and in open office formats"
From the client's spreadsheet data to browseable content -- how to create, populate and manage your business objects in Drupal | aWebFactory: "This is a somewhat detailed description of how to leverage content types and views in Drupal, most useful for beginner to intermediate experience level in Drupal Web Application development, or to those evaluating Drupal. It is designed to show how the power of the framework is only apparent after gaining just a little experience with its features"
Monday, November 03, 2008
Saturday, November 01, 2008
autoplay possible with lightbox2 ?? | drupal.org: "Slideshow functionality has now been added in Lightbox2 5.x-2.6 and 6.x-1.6"
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Twitter Chat - Search Results for: drupal: Drupal Modules for Twitter and other Social Networking Platforms & Using Summize with Bloglines to bring Feeds to you
Monday, October 27, 2008
Free Keyword Suggestion, Research & Analysis Tools: Seo Book.com: "These are free and paid tools which will help you find which keywords to target and how competitive they are." & SEO Blogs and Search Engine Blogs : SEO Book.com & PPC Tools - Pay Per Click Bid Management Software: SEO Book.com & Top Paying AdSense Keyword Lists (has intro on Microsoft adCenter - Microsoft Advertising) via YouTube - seobook's Videos
Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: crawling and indexing & Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Join us for our third live online webmaster chat!: "You know how some myths just won't die? Well, do we have some great news for you! A not-so-scary bunch of Gooooooooooooglers will be on hand to drive a stake through the most ghoulish webmastering myths and misconceptions in our live online 'Tricks and Treats' chat this coming Wednesday."
Video Sharing for Internet Marketers: "IMBroadcast.com is intended to be more than just a simple video sharing site. We are hoping to make it a social platform for our industry, where people can share their thoughts, ideas, questions, as well as their videos."
What’s the PostRank of Your Blog Posts?: "AideRSS is a very handy blog evaluating tool that can help you understand and grade your blog posts. Here are a few more tips on blog analysis:
- How to analyze the internal power of your website;
- How to compare your blog power;
- A huge collection of SEO tools for more research and analysis."
Google Proxy Hacking Protector - Drupal Module Reviews and Ratings: "In Dan Thies' great post about the method "Google Proxy Hacking" at http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/google-proxy-hacking he illustrates how an (evil) third party can remove your site from the Google search results. One actual example of the application of this black hat SEO tactic for Google bowling my own company site out the results is illustrated here http://www.marketingfan.com/search-engines/google-proxy-bowling" & How Google AdSense Cannibalizes Content Based Business Models : SEO Book.com: "Imagine re-branding a site you built over 10,000 organic links to, only to have Google view it as a deceptive redirect and KILL ALL OF YOUR LINK EQUITY while paying spammers to steal your content."
SEO for Wordpress by Joost de Valk: "Joost’s Wordpress SEO Guide and
- Blogger’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization by Aaron & Giovanna Wall
- SEO for Wordpress 2.5 Blogs by Mihaela Lica
- SEO Plugins for Wordpress by Michael Gray"
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Comparison of Drupal WYSIWYG Editors drupal.org: "EXCELLENT comparison of editors!
1. I Googled and found a couple of other surveys, although they're not very current.Evaluation of WYSIWYG editors (February 2007)Evaluation of WYSIWYG editors - FULL test results (February 2007)WYSIWYG Text Editors Reviewed (February 2006)
2. I'd like to let folks know about WYSIWYG over at groups.drupal.org.
3. Here's a helpful poll: Which editor (if any) do you use for your Drupal site(s)."
1. I Googled and found a couple of other surveys, although they're not very current.Evaluation of WYSIWYG editors (February 2007)Evaluation of WYSIWYG editors - FULL test results (February 2007)WYSIWYG Text Editors Reviewed (February 2006)
2. I'd like to let folks know about WYSIWYG over at groups.drupal.org.
3. Here's a helpful poll: Which editor (if any) do you use for your Drupal site(s)."
Friday, October 24, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Notes from the Google webmasters “Tricks and Treats” event - Daily SEO blog: "The session started off with presentations from Googlers on various topics such as “Myths in SEO” and ended with a vibrant question answer session on the Google Moderator tool." & Top Wordpress plugins Matt Cutts recommends your blog - Daily SEO blog & page rank drop site:mattcutts.com - Google Search
SEO Sitemaps Now Autodiscoverable: Easy and Automatic Roadmaps to Your Blog Content « Lorelle on WordPress: "So far, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search, and Ask.com all support the new autodiscovery protocol."
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Free Design Articles from Before & After Magazine: "Before & After is one of the best resources I’ve found for non-designers. The information is practical and parred to the bone. No fluff here. Explanations are thorough and clear" & Before & After magazine article writes about Sybil Green fonts from MyFonts.com & Before & After: What’s the Right Typeface for Text? | Columns, November/December 2005 | Layers Magazine: For Everything Adobe
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Creating Mobile Sites in Drupal Using Multisites | mobiForge & Mobile | skiFFie: "The accessibility module for Drupal allows access to your site from any device", PHP Device Detection | skiFFie & Drupal Websites on the iPhone | Rob Loach's Blog | Fast Company & Optimizing Themes & Modules for iPhone use. | groups.drupal.org
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
jQuery and Drupal | Innovating Tomorrow: "Drupal and jQuery have proven to be a powerful combination when it comes to producing useful and flashy web sites and web applications. In episode 88 of the Geeks and God podcast we talk about jQuery and how it works from within drupal. Part of my homework from the episode was to write up some examples of how to use jQuery from within drupal. Here are those examples."
Website Optimizer - videos & Google Website Optimizer | drupal.org: "This module only supports the multivariate testing option at the moment, so it does not work with A/B tests" & How to Use Google Web Optimizer in Joomla: "Jakob Nielsen put this pretty well with his formula for website success: B = V x C x L" & Google Website Optimizer Forum | Google Groups
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Photoshop Nerds : Photoshop Tutorials » Blog Archive » Creating a Flyer in Photoshop & Photoshop Tutorials - How to make a web-based flyer in photoshop & Photoshop Video Tutorial - Create a Flyer | Free Photoshop Video Tutorials: "Having a clean, stylish, and visually appealing layout is the key to effectively conveying information on flyers" & photoshop tutorials for beginners - Google Video & Adobe Photoshop Basics: Free Online Tutorial for Beginners : Tips on Using Effects in Adobe Photoshop & Matt Thommes / Fast rounded corners in Photoshop
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Get Indexed and Ranked in Google News & Google News Blog: All News is Local e.g. Thornhill, ON, Canada - Google News & News Sitemaps is a good start. & Google NEWS sitemaps | drupal.org: "Added in CVS commit 116187. To use, create a new view with page type 'XML Sitemap: News'. I did not include a default view because there is no standard URL for Google News site maps." & WordPress Sitemap Generator for Google News - David Stansbury KB3KAI & Google Webmaster Tools: "For News Sitemaps: The Sitemap Generator is not recommended for use in creating Google News Sitemaps at this time, due to the special requirements of News Sitemaps. News Sitemaps are intended to be dynamic lists of only the most recently published news articles (rather than the entire website), and they are updated frequently."
Monday, September 08, 2008
My Google Maps tool: "This is the tool I use to create overlays for my Google API maps. I use it to produce polylines, polygons and circles... The javascript and the layout for this web page is a modified version of EZ Google Maps Digitizer, Read about it in Google Code Articles. Maths for drawing circle Some experiments with the Google Maps API (Sensitive circle). When I want to change or add coordinates in a kml-file, I use this tool:
Edit Google Maps KML file" & Google Code FAQ - Creating a Simple Digitizer Using the Google Maps API: "Using the EZ Digitizer... Once you've traced out a path, you can copy the generated KML output to a single file... In addition to digitizing paths (or specifically Polylines), it is easy to trace out structures or regions using the EZDigitizer's Polygon drawing mode" & Matt’s Wikimapia Blog » How To #6: Adding Polygons & Some experiments with the Google Maps API...
Edit Google Maps KML file" & Google Code FAQ - Creating a Simple Digitizer Using the Google Maps API: "Using the EZ Digitizer... Once you've traced out a path, you can copy the generated KML output to a single file... In addition to digitizing paths (or specifically Polylines), it is easy to trace out structures or regions using the EZDigitizer's Polygon drawing mode" & Matt’s Wikimapia Blog » How To #6: Adding Polygons & Some experiments with the Google Maps API...
Friday, September 05, 2008
Book review: "Google Analytics" by Mary E. Tyler and Jerri L. Ledford: Unofficial Google Analytics Blog: "In conclusion, if you're technical and looking for a book to cover Google Analytics installation from head to toe, you'll probably want to skip this book; if you've got a simple website and need a primer in the basics, this is your Google Analytics go-to guide."
Dialer|Lead Response Management|Lead Management|Vertical Industry Solutions: Lead Response Management: "How Much Time Do You Have Before Web-Generated Leads Go Cold?" & Lead Response Management | MIT Survey
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Google Earth API - Google Code: "let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages."
PDT/TUTORIALS - Eclipsepedia & Using PDT : Installation : Installing the Zend Debugger - PDTWiki & Using open source software to design, develop, and deploy a collaborative Web site, Part 13: PHP development within Eclipse: "Now that all the parts of the PHP IDE and Zend debugger are in place, you'll set up a debug session using a current Drupal project within Eclipse..." & YooperGeek: Getting Breakpoints to work in Eclipse PDT using Zend Debugger & Zend Studio Server 5.1 Installation - Zend Studio - PHP support & tips - Zend.com
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Monday, September 01, 2008
spherical panorama using ptviewer.jar | drupal.org: "Here is an example... There are several options for flash to show spherical panoramas. I use a program called 'pano2qtvr'. This outputs both qucktime and flash movies. You can find more info here 'http://gardengnomesoftware.com/'. There is a new version out now that is not dependent on quicktime source. See the link for more info. I use 'ptgui' to stitch the pano's with and then use pano2qtvr to render the quicktime or flash movie. But there are many other stitching programs out there that will render your pano in flash as well. Prior to flash 8 it was not possible to show spherical pano's in flash. Since flash 8 this is now possible. The flash movies are based on the 'cube' format designed by quicktime.
For further information on this see the Panotools list at yahoo. Here you can find further information all about panoramic imaging." & Panorama Tools: PTViewer Documentation, links & WordPress › WP PT-Viewer « WordPress Plugins & Flash Panorama Publishing Software - Panorama2Flash
For further information on this see the Panotools list at yahoo. Here you can find further information all about panoramic imaging." & Panorama Tools: PTViewer Documentation, links & WordPress › WP PT-Viewer « WordPress Plugins & Flash Panorama Publishing Software - Panorama2Flash
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Friday, August 08, 2008
Vogel-Nest - WebScraping2 (via Stupid Simple Web Scraping with SimpleXML | Nick Lewis - Drupal blogger)
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Google Analytics Demystified: Part 5 - Goal Tracking and Funnels | E-Commerce Optimization & Marketing: "For a more detailed explanation and step-by-step setup process, as well as a nice “copy and paste” funnel path URL structure ready for Zen Cart, be sure to download a copy of Google Analytics Uncovered for Zen Cart: The Workbook"
Monday, July 14, 2008
Convert Flash Video .flv Files to .mpg .avi .mp4 .3GP.wmv and Other Media Format: "SUPER supports a wide variety of input/source file format to play or encode and decode without any additional third party software. It’s a GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. SUPER is a simple yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, and most video formats and also portable formats for PSP, iPod, PocketPC and NEC, Nokia, Siemens, SonyEricsson are supported."
Zune.net | Web Help - C00D11CD: "If you're trying to play a media file in an unsupported format, you might be able to convert it to a file type supported by the Zune software. Microsoft provides two programs—Windows Movie Maker and Windows Media Encoder—that can be used to convert unsupported video files into .wmv files. You can convert audio files using Windows Media Encoder." & Convert Flash Video .flv Files to .mpg .avi .mp4 .3GP.wmv and Other Media Format: "SUPER supports a wide variety of input/source file format to play or encode and decode without any additional third party software. It’s a GUI to ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plugIn. SUPER is a simple yet very efficient tool to convert (encode) or play any Multimedia file, and most video formats and also portable formats for PSP, iPod, PocketPC and NEC, Nokia, Siemens, SonyEricsson are supported."
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Monday, July 07, 2008
Friday, July 04, 2008
Housing | Google Base Help Center: "Google Base Help - Submitting to Google Base - Data feeds - Data feed instructions"
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Western Digital Passport: An Excellent Option for Backing Up Your Data to an External Hard Drive « My Tech Talk: "Limitations of the WD Sync software: The software only SYNCS data. If you backup a folder from your hard drive to the Passport device, this doesn’t mean that you can then delete that folder from your hard drive. Why? The next time you sync the WD Sync software will remove that folder from the Passport device. It considers your hard drive the “master copy” of the data." & What See I?: May 2008: "Converting FAT32 to NTFS Without Formatting" & Syncing Hard drives - Pro DJ Forums: "If the encryption could be disabled, WD Sync would be perfect, but SyncToy does what I need it to."
Friday, June 27, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Nerd Vittles » The Asterisk Orgasmatron: A $199 Turnkey PBX Install in Under 15 Minutes: Part I & Part II
Nerd Vittles » Asterisk Hell: A Minefield Navigation Guide for Newbies: "a serious look at Asterisk through the eyes of a typical new user today. Our objective is to turn newly built Asterisk servers into stellar performers, IP telephony systems that work reliably without the quirks that are all too familiar to those of us who have tiptoed through the minefield for many years. Whether you've chosen to run PBX in a Flash, or a trixbox system, or Elastix, or rolled your own Asterisk system, that's the least of your problems"
Monday, June 16, 2008
Featured Download: Rip DVDs to Friendlier Formats with HandBrake & Download of the Day: HandBrake (All platforms): "HandBrake definitely makes easier work of copying DVDs to your iPod, though the overall process still takes a few hours." & Handbrake: How to Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod or iPhone Using Free Software - using Handbrake
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Google Gadgets: Google Desktop Search Plug-in for Firefox & Google Desktop Search Tips and Third Party Tools: "gdSuite provides an interface on top of GDS to make it more user friendly to build the query you need and get the results you want"
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Use Gmail IMAP in Microsoft Outlook 2007 :: the How-To Geek & Gmail Help > IMAP: Outlook 2007 - Help Center
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
Solr: An Alternative to Drupal Search, Now with Group Filtering | Development Seed: "There is a module - apachesolr - that's being actively developed that presently supports using Solr for searching Drupal sites. However, because Solr's search is independent of the usual SQL queries used by Drupal - and immune to the performance ramifications therein - the module doesn't currently support the node access permissions system, and therefore returns blurbs of what could be restricted content"
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Sunday, June 01, 2008
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