Web Design & Standards: The Archives
Backing Up Your Drupal Database
Being a WordPress devotee, the shocking thing about Drupal is that it doesn’t have a backup utility built into the core system. Any content management system that relies upon a back-end database should provide a way to back that database up regularly.
Shockingly, Drupal doesn’t. But it does have a dedicated community, and there are [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Applications on Thursday, April 24 2008 | 5 Comments »
Redesigning My Personal Blog
Something I’ll be putting on the portfolio here soon – a redesign of my personal blog.
This is a redesign of the blog, which runs on Drupal 6 and features a blog and photo galleries. It’s not the first Drupal-based theme I’ve ever created, but certainly the one I’m happiest with.
Posted in Announcements, Web Design & Standards on Wednesday, April 23 2008 | Leave a comment »
HowTo: Configuring Triggers and Actions in Drupal 6
Drupal 6 offers built-in actions that can be performed whenever something happens on your site. Typically, you want to use this to get an alert when someone publishes content on the site, or a new user signs up.
You might even want to mimic WordPress and get an email alert every time someone leaves a [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Applications on Thursday, April 3 2008 | 11 Comments »
Mollom: A Content Monitoring System
Developers Dries Buytaert and Benjamin Schrauwen have announced the release of an all new anti-comment spam system called Mollom. Since Dries is the mastermind behind the community-building CMS Drupal, Mollom seems to have a wider remit than you might find with comparable systems like Akismet.
They’re not just going after the usual automated comment spam that [...]
Posted in Blogging, Web Applications on Wednesday, April 2 2008 | Leave a comment »
How To Apply rel="nofollow" To Content In Drupal
If you’ve got a community website using Drupal, you might want to protect your site from spammers by applying the rel=”nofollow” attribute to any links your users generate.
The theory behind this is that you protect your site from linking to ‘bad neighbourhoods’ an possibly incurring penalties with Google for spammy links. Rel=”nofollow” is your [...]
Posted in Drupal, Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, April 2 2008 | 2 Comments »
Comment Configuration In Drupal 6
I spent a frustrating hour searching for the comment configuration area in Drupal 6, so I’m putting this post together to hopefully save you time setting up comments in Drupal.
Basically, in contrast to previous editions of Drupal, comments are now configured by content type – allowing you to permit comments on blog entries, but not [...]
Posted in Drupal on Wednesday, April 2 2008 | 2 Comments »
A Drupal User Administration Tip
I’ve been working a lot with the Drupal content management system lately, and one tip I’d share with anybody managing a Drupal site is to keep the administration account separate from their user account.
Posted in Drupal on Monday, March 31 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hacking Simple Machines Forum For SEO
The Simple Machines Forum is a great free php forum system. Unfortunately, out of the box it’s the most poorly search engine optimised piece of rubbish you’re likely to ever experience. But then, most forumware is.
When I installed the Unreality TV Forum, the first thing I did was to make the layout fixed-width for better [...]
Posted in Internet Technologies, Search Engine Optimisation on Monday, March 17 2008 | Leave a comment »
Some Useful Yahoo! Shortcuts
After getting frustrated with the search results that I was getting from Google, I decided to spread my wings a little bit and start using different search engines.
Currently, I’m using Yahoo! for my everyday searches, supplemented by Microsoft’s Live.com.
One of the biggest benefits of using alternative search engines is seeing different results. I’d gotten tired [...]
Posted in Internet Technologies, Search Engine Optimisation on Thursday, November 8 2007 | Leave a comment »
Search Engine Professional
The good folks at SEOmoz have come up with an SEO quiz that rates your knowledge of SEO according to some very difficult questions. I took the test today and got a 74% score – not bad considering there were some tricky questions (and a couple where the wording caught me out).
So, I’m officially an…
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Posted in Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, September 12 2007 | Leave a comment »
