Friday, April 09, 2010

Thursday, April 08, 2010

SearchFest 2010 Session Recaps and Presentation Decks Available Online - EngineWorks: "Available now on the Search Engine Marketing Professionals of Portland (SEMpdx) Web site are live blog recaps of panel presentations to anyone interested in gleaning insight into the valuable information that was delivered throughout the day. Also available on the association’s Web site, through a password-protected page for SEMpdx members, are the PowerPoint Presentation slides from each informative panel session."

Monday, April 05, 2010

Seth's Blog: The Tribes Q&A ebook is free: "Dozens of volunteers, working together, put together this ebook"
Manning Forums: Drupal in Action - Use coupon code ug367 and get 36% off the book.
Paul Sterling on Umbraco vs. DNN: "While both are frameworks in the sense that they can be used as a basis for extension, Umbraco has a more “native” .NET approach in that .NET controls (user controls, custom controls, and the like) can be used “as is” either via Umbraco macros or inline in your markup without any special consideration for the framework."
Bulk image uploading and tagging with Imagex and Views Bulk Operations | Mastering Drupal

Sunday, March 21, 2010

21 Fresh & Stunning Drupal Themes | Mogdesign: "A while ago I published an article with 25 beautiful Drupal themes which become the most popular post on this blog ever. Since that time, tons of new Drupal themes have been published, so I decided to list another 25 new and beautiful Drupal themes. Each theme has a link to its Drupal.org project page, a live demo link, and a basic description." & tripwire magazine: 120 Free Essential Drupal 6.x Themes , 70 very useful Drupal 6.x Themes

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Yahoo! Web Analytics
Pagetest - where web sites go to get FAST! & Page Speed Home: "Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them."
Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript
Writer Zone - Windows Live & Step by step guide to configuring Windows Live Writer to post to Drupal & Getting Live Writer to play nicely with Drupal
Email Subject Lines: Do symbols hurt email marketing response?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

OpenID Ends 2009 With 1 Billion Accounts Enabled: "OpenID accounts are enabled by such providers as AOL, Blogger, Flickr, Google, LiveJournal, MySpace, Verisign, WordPress and Yahoo, with announcements of upcoming OpenIDs from Microsoft and PayPal. Sites that allow users to login with OpenID range from major retailers and music labels to news organizations and social sites." & OpenID Pilot Program to be Announced by US Government: "Ten private companies, a number of US Government Federal Agencies primarily in the Health sector and the OpenID and Information Card Foundations will announce this morning in Washington DC the launch of a pilot program to allow members of the public to log in to participating government websites with their credentials from approved independent websites."
Restaurant Owner Increases Sales by 110% with Foursquare Swarm Badge Party points to: Location is Hot: Foursquare Traffic up 3X in 2 Months & Yelp Check-Ins: Totally Awesome or Super Annoying?

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

A/B Split Test your email campaigns | MailChimp.com points to:
How to Create a Drupal Theme / Convert Wordpress Theme into Drupal 6.x Theme | The Unofficial Drupal Theme Site
Migration from Drupal 6.x to Wordpress 2.9x | scurker.com
Comparison of Rotator / Slider modules | drupal.org

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

I don't know if these 2 frameworks are the same thing: Genesis | Drupal Themes Video Tutorials - Genesis is a flexible and powerful starter theme for Drupal 6 & Genesis Theme Framework by StudioPress - new WordPress theme framework with endless design possibilities like AgentPress (a Genesis Child Theme)

Friday, February 26, 2010

Cutting Edge - Predictive Fetch with jQuery and the ASP.NET Ajax Library (MSDN Magazine, Feburary 2010 Issue)
Adventures In Authentication | Learn By The Drop: "Facebook Connect, Twitter, and Google Friend Connect all allow you to authenticate users to your site. They require varying degrees of technical expertise to set up and the exact functionality varies too. The good part is that they all seem to excel at verifying the identity of an anonymous visitor to your site, at least temporarily. The bad part is that they really don't fit in with the normal Drupal account creation process. ... The discussion called Social networking accounts: unified approach to store in external account data in user content profiles? covers some of the same issues I mention here and even mentions the fact that there is no module for LinkedIn."

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Monday, February 08, 2010

Tabs and Slideshow Modules (Views based and Otherwise) | groups.drupal.org: "See http://drupal.org/node/418616 for a more thorough comparison of slideshow & rotator modules... There're already two jQuery plugins to do the carousel effect: jCarousel and jCarousellite which is a lighter version and lacks many features in jCarousel, yet it works better."

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Apple unveils iPad tablet computer | iLounge News: "Reading the live feed that Flash is still not available for web viewing is unbelievable and a deal breaker for me. It’s not worth the upgrade price to me, when my Touch can do most of what the iPad will do for my purposes. I don’t need to use the iBook/iPaper reader portion. I was really hoping for a full fledge mini computer with a full function web browser." - AGREE 100%

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Huge Increase In SEO Services Spammers Using Gmail Accounts: "People who are truly good at what they do don’t have to spam to get business. If they were really good at SEO they could get all the traffic they could handle using legal means."

Monday, January 25, 2010

Drupal Wins GRAMMY.com | Lullabot: "Site Modules and Architecture: This PressFlow-based Drupal 6 site makes heavy use of CCK and Views. Other modules of note are Views Slideshow on the home page; Fivestar for ratings throughout the site; ImageCache, ImageField, and ImageField Extended for image handling and galleries, Poll module (part of Drupal core) on the home page, and Views Cloud for sidebar tag clouds throughout. The site also uses the Custom Page module to provide the custom home page layout. New modules to come out of the project include Gallery Summary and iFrame Filter which improves page load performance for remote javascript-based content. Many module patches and improvements were also contributed including work on Flag, NodeQueue, ShareThis, and the Ooyala video module, which handles all of the video on the site."

Monday, January 18, 2010

CCK Mashup -- Oh The Things You Can Do! | DrupalCon DC: "We'll look at ways to combine CCK with other modules to do interesting and exciting things, including:
  • Protect fields with Content Permissions.
  • Add fields and relationships to Views.
  • Insert fields and groups into Panels.
  • Generate field data with Devel.
  • Populate fields from feeds using Feed API.
  • Make clickable maps into input widgets using GMap and Location.
  • Inject pictures into fields using Flickr."
Analyze This! Using the Google Analytics API | Lullabot

Friday, January 08, 2010

Drupal and Apache Web Site Security Checklist, part 3 | Nadeau Software: "In a 2009 report (PDF), White Hat Security reports the top ten vulnerabilities in sites they tested. Number two, with a 47% likelihood, is Information Leakage. Vulnerabilities of this type come in many forms. They needn't just include obvious problems, like posting credit card and social security numbers to public pages. Other information leakage problems reveal information about the site's software and configuration, such as the model and version number of the software, host names, IP addresses, logins, and passwords..."
IKEA: Facebook Showroom Number 8 - Interactive (video) - Creativity Online: "Forsman and Bodenfors turns Facebook tagging into a promotional tool for the opening of Ikea's new store"

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Tuesday, January 05, 2010