July, 2011
Below are links to articles posted in July, 2011
Social Evolution of SEO: Search Results Influenced by Your Social Network
For all those SEO fanatics, you know that for years the best way to acquire organic rankings in search results was to have pages containing quality content and targeting the right keywords to earn external links. Social media is changing all that. Let’s call it…the Social Evolution of SEO.
Managing Drupal sites with AEgir: Getting Started
AEgir has been the hot topic in the Drupal community these days. In case you’re not familiar with what AEgir is, it’s basically a Drush GUI that allows users to manage multiple Drupal instances under one unified interface. While this doesn’t sound like much on the surface, the ability to upgrade multiple Drupal sites, migrate and clone sites, manage backups, and create new Drupal sites all at the click of a button is pretty powerful stuff.
Using the Pathauto API Drupal Module: A Simple Example
Pathauto is a wonderful tool. It’s definitely my oldest friend when it comes to Drupal modules. As the module has progressed, the API has become easier to use. This means we can make clean and beautiful URLs for our custom Drupal implementations, painlessly. For this example we are going to create a menu callback to display extra information about the blog content type. We will then use the Pathauto API to create the customizable url aliases.
Taking Advantage of Git Submodules with Drupal
While building Drupal websites, we end up building modules for all sorts of random tasks – anything from simply reorganizing the contents of a node object or adding fields to the Site Information page to views plugins or huge integrations. It’s not unusual to have both in-house and contributed modules for which you or your company are the maintainer, that you use across many project.
The Scary World of Data Migration… From HTML Pages to Drupal 7, Part 2
So we’ve successfully used QueryPath to extract our data from the flat html files. Now, it’s time to put that data into our Drupal 7 site.
