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I read an article today that the Heaven’s Gate website was still active and unchanged after 15 years.
I don’t know if you remember but Heaven’s Gate was a UFO cult led by the very strange Marshall Applewhite who believed that Earth was going to be...more»
If you go pretty much anything with data, learning the tar command is going to be worth your while. But suppose you do things with lots and lots of heavy data?
Well, one trick you’ll want to add to your arsenal is the –-exclude option.
Let’s say...more»
Just add this to your CSS file (which should be somewhere in a subfolder of /sites/all/themes/yourTheme/)
#node-form .tips, .tips + a, .tips + p { display:none;}
ul.tips { ...more»
We use suPHP on all our servers because it makes them so much more secure.
That said, suPHP and Drupal 6 don't always get along well with one another. The Image Cache module seems to be especially problematic on this point.
The essential problem...more»
It's a good idea when you're building a test site to password protect it.
Other times, there are sections of one's website that needs to be restricted to certain users.
Since our platform of choice has a very granular set of permissions baked in...more»
When it comes to web development, oftentimes less is more – something that may seem counterintuitive in a culture where bigger is almost always considered better.
The smorgasbord of free modules that the better CMS’s have on offer can make the...more»
Bounce rate is a popular metric used by Google Analytics and similar statistics accumulators to measure the “stickiness” of your website. The notion of what constitutes a good bounce rate is rather controversial and so I wanted to add a bit to the...more»
Drupal is a powerful CMS and does a lot of wonderful things. However, just because the folks behind Drupal are genius coders or system architects doesn't mean they know the first thing about SEO. In fact, there are so many SEO issues with Drupal...more»
A new tool by Google, Page Speed Online http://pagespeed.googlelabs.com/ let's you test your website's page load speed. It seems to be a much nicer and more extensive tool than others such as YSlow. I guess it will be included as part of Google's...more»
Ahh, the power of wget. Probably my favorite shell command of all. One of the many cool things you can do is to download an entire website with wget - images, css and all - right to your local computer. And it's pretty easy... you just need to...more»
