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Drupal 6 to WordPress
If Drupal isn’t your cup of tea, maybe you’d prefer Wordpress? People baffled by the complexity and performance issues of Drupal take to Wordpress.
What if your site is already in Drupal and you don’t want to remake all of those pages and links?
Upgrade From Drupal 6 to Drupal 8
Drupal 6 is that it went End of Life on February 24, 2016. Drupal 6 sites will no longer see code patches. The best course is to upgrade to Drupal 8. Don’t worry: upgrades happen. I can help.
Creating custom filters with drupal and views in Drupal 6
Ah views. Yes, the views module for Drupal is incredibly powerful and combined with CCK has essentially eliminated the need to ever create custom modules for content. While this is a happy thing, sometimes views just doesn’t quite do what you want. And, rather sadly, there is almost no documentation on how to create custom views plugins/styles/filters/etc. Boo.
Products, Services and Scarcity (Real and Imagined)
In 2011, we did a podcast about getting the locomotive going—getting momentum. Then, I had a busy week and failed to live up to my pledge of momentum building. There’s saying it and there’s doing it. I said it, but everyone needs to do it. Getting the locomotive going is key.
Product Orgy
Where has this column / concept of the First $10,000 gone? It’s been lost in the Hinterland of hard work.
Dress For Success
I used to have SEO dialed in. One SEO firm at a tradeshow had me plunk my URL, hoping that my keywords and meta tags would be akimbo. Nope: my site was ideal and they couldn’t lure me in for some lucrative SEO contract work.
Then I went to sleep in a sense and came back to find that my SEO perfection was dashed to the rocks. Along with it my decent Google Adsense trickle and my legion of fans. It wasn’t entirely my fault and maybe you’re in the same boat and we’re both out to sea.
Sorry Facebook, You Need A Website.
My main beef with social vs. the web. (This is techie, but it’s massive). The web is about agnostic protocols. Social is about posting data into owned spaces.
When I made my webpage, I could host it anywhere. When I sent an email it got to another other email user to whom I addressed it to. If something happened with the communication the protocol would try to make the connection “work.” (aka the whole “nuclear war proof” communications medium).
SEO and Drupal: Five Modules To Make You Stand Out
In the days before I worked with a content management system, I built pages by hand. It’s an exercise in consistency. One of the joys of a CMS like Drupal is that it repeatedly put all of your best practices into place. Having such a large open-source community really helps drive the development of newer and better SEO mousetraps. Drupal code is W3C compliant and search engine friendly.
Five Projects I Would Really Love To Do
I am proposing expeditions into application development. These are cool ideas that I would like to run with to not only make use of my technical skill, but also fascinate and drip me.
Make Images Spritely
Why is that some pages loading with lightning speed and others are stuck with a “Waiting for….” in the bottom status bar? One reason is the number of file calls– CSS stylesheets, Javascript, images and the content. Browsers bring down these files in pairs and have to often wait until some of them are down before they get pointers as to what comes next. This boils down into what is called “hang time.” CMSes and style heavy sites can take an eternity to come down. The good news: you can make even a feature rich and complex layout come through at lightning speed. The answer: CSS Sprites.
What is the Cost Of Web Development?
Design Rush has a piece on the cost of web development. Check it out!