Welcome to the SEO minefield You know, I write about many aspects of website technology, how to build and use SEO, how to make money online and how to sell your own technology services., Since most of my posts are geared to the beginner level person who wants to learn more about SEO and/or handle

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Wordle is an excellent website for a some serious lunchtime cyberloafing. It basically takes any string of text, parses it and creates a nice little word-cloud graphic with the most used words. Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently

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THIS IS A TEST OF THE FACEBOOK/DRUPAL CONNECTION

So, I'm trying to figure out if this darned Drupal Facebook Module will allow me to connect my main login information with Facebook. If this works then this will appear on Facebook.

If this doesn't work then I am going to sulk and write bum on the windows.

The documentation says:

With Drupal for Facebook, you can harness all the power of Drupal in you Facebook App. If you already have content in Drupal, you can expose it on Facebook.

The Drupal for Facebook philosophy is that the functionality already built into Drupal should be used to create Facebook Applications. Where possible, we use Drupal's user management, permission schemes, blocks, views, etc. to implement the Facebook App. Experienced Drupal users will find it very straightforward to build a Facebook App. While Facebook developers new to Drupal may want to spend some time on Drupal.org learning best practices.

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Episode 3 – Another year has passed How on earth has a year passed since I had my failed Drupal8 experience? #TimeFliesWhenYoureHavingFun So, it’s Friday, the weekend is looking and it’s time to try this upgrade again. Drupal 8 is now a year older, a year more mature and seems to be ready for the

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I wrote a blog earlier to day with lots of source code and comments in it. I wanted the program code that I included to really standout and be very readable and easy to copy/paste. The current CSS layout uses <PRE> which gives me a nice way of marking blocks of code and displaying them.

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Episode 1 – Drupal 7 the Ghost of Christmas Past Christmas is coming, The geese are getting fat, Please put a penny In the old man’s hat. If you haven’t got a penny, A ha’penny will do, If you haven’t got a ha’penny, Then it’s time for a big scarey Drupal update! Drupal8 has been

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(follow on article from part 2) Let’s review what we have done: We have cleaned up the old Drupal 6 website to make it as minimal, clean, and fully functional as possible. It’s just housekeeping and a good thing. We have installed an empty Drupal 7 content management system in a new web server (or

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(follow on article from part one) We are not focussed on running an upgrade here, instead, we are going to create a clean Drupal7 website and import (or migrate) the content into it. #2 – Setup a Drupal 7 installation for a Drupal6 upgrade So, we have the original Drupal6 website now running in a

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Las month my cousin, drumming demi-god Rob Litten asked me to help him upgrade his website. He has been running a very successful online drumming sensation called Drums The Word for a few years now. It’s a Drupal 6 eCommerce website running Ubercart focused on selling digital products — downloadable videos and drum lessons. We

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It’s not as simple as saying the the “Website has crashed” it’s more like the website has groan, warned me and then exploded in the most egregious way. That will teach me to go tinkering in SQL… *sigh* Bollocks, Bugger and Damnation! On the bright(ish) side this site has been around since the days of

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Migrating Cousin Rob’s www.DRUMSTHEWORD.com website from his 6 year old Drupal6 website to a new (hopefully sexier) WordPress4 website has meant a lot of data cleansing before golive. Before we get any comments about Drupal vs. WordPress, or a CMS flamewar, the new website was chosen to be on WordPress because of WOOCOMMERCE and a

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If you have a Drupal website then you will be well aware of the near daily battle with annoying spam trying to get a free ride of your sites visitors. Obviously, I’m not talking about the delicious pinkish world war two meaty thing made of Pork, water, sugar and some starchy stuff… but instead, I’m

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