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Three Advantages on Why Your Company Should Invest Time Into Google+
As you may know, Google+ launched its brand pages for organizations and businesses a little over a month ago. Like Facebook Business Pages, Google+ brand pages are used to promote activities, share information, and interact with fans/stakeholders. What was your first reaction to the initial launch? Were you excited or did you think it was just another social media channel?
You might already devote a lot of your time to managing a Facebook and Twitter page so you may think that adding another social media channel to your to-do list isn’t all that important. Continue reading: Three Advantages on Why Your Company Should Invest Time Into Google+ »
Drupal 7 Views with Faceted Filters, without ApacheSolr
Search facets and filtering are a great way to guide your user to the information they are looking for. With facets, we can create an intuitive way for users to narrow down the items that are visible on the screen. Drupal’s core search capability does not provide a way to implement facets, so we need to look at contributed modules to achieve this. In Drupal 6, we would reach for the Apache Solr Search module. This is a great, high performance solution, but it has it’s drawbacks. Installing Solr on your web server can be tricky, and with most shared hosting accounts not even permitted. Fortunately, with Drupal 7 and a few API modules, we can incorporate these wonderful little facets without the need for a full-blown Solr setup. Continue reading: Drupal 7 Views with Faceted Filters, without ApacheSolr »
Three Reasons to Use Pinterest to Boost Your Brand Image
Growing up, I remember ripping pages out of magazines to save beauty tips, pretty pictures of models, coveted clothes and shoes, and do-it-yourself crafts. As my pile grew and my “idea” box got heavier, I thought, “There’s got to be an easier way.” And there was. My life got easier and a bit more fun when Pinterest, an online pinboard where you can “organize and share things you love,” launched just this last year. Continue reading: Three Reasons to Use Pinterest to Boost Your Brand Image »
Three Reasons Why Social Media is Important for Your Brand
You just started a business and have all your ducks in a row. With experienced and trained teams in human resources, operations/business development, marketing, web development, accounting, customer service, and planning/product development set up, you’re ready to launch. However, before you do, have you thought of integrating an in-house social media team into your marketing department?
Whether your business is new or well-seasoned, if you haven’t thought about it, here are three important reasons why it’s time to take your shoes and socks off and step into social media waters. Continue reading: Three Reasons Why Social Media is Important for Your Brand »
Five Tips for a Successful Facebook Business Page
Do you promote your business on Facebook? How do you communicate your company’s image to gain fans? We all know social media is important when it comes to marketing your company, brand, service, and/or product, but how valuable is Facebook for your business? Continue reading: Five Tips for a Successful Facebook Business Page »
5 Guidelines For Creating Effective Landing Pages
A landing page is a web page you send traffic when you want them to take action. They are often coupled with pay-per-click ads, email campaigns, QR codes and other forms of advertising. Landing pages, when implemented correctly, have big potential for success. There are times however, when missing the basic details can hurt your chances of conversions.
Here are five important guidelines to follow when creating effective landing pages. Continue reading: 5 Guidelines For Creating Effective Landing Pages »
Secure Your Drupal 3rd Party Integrations Using OAuth
While I was researching how to integrate a Twitter application into a Drupal site I found that there was very little documentation on how to accomplish this using their OAuth protocol. This can be a pretty confusing topic, and chances are that if youʼve landed here then youʼre already somewhat familiar with what OAuth is are having the same problem that I had. Continue reading: Secure Your Drupal 3rd Party Integrations Using OAuth »
Breaking Drupal 7 Webforms into Multiple Steps the Easy Way
I recently played the role of Information Architect on a site remodel. We were charged with the task of doing a brand new build to replace an existing Flash site. One of the priorities of the client was to retain the elaborate Request for Quote form. Continue reading: Breaking Drupal 7 Webforms into Multiple Steps the Easy Way »
Drupal Batch API in a Nutshell
Drupals internal batch API can be really helpful for handling large cumbersome processes on your web server. Rather than submitting a form and waiting for one of these processes to finish before reaching the next page, the batch API can be utilized to break the process down across multiple page loads. This not only cuts down on the server load, but will prevent the page from timing out. Progress bars will be displayed to the user while the process runs which will keep them informed of where they are at in the process.
In this example, I’ll explain how to do a simple assembly line-like process to generating page nodes in bulk, similar to Devel’s node generate function. Continue reading: Drupal Batch API in a Nutshell »
Managing Drupal sites with AEgir: Importing Your Site
Now that weʼve got our AEgir instance setup and running, you may be asking yourself, “what now?” AEgir can be somewhat perplexing if youʼre unfamiliar with the multisite file structure so weʼll start by discussing some of the terminology. Continue reading: Managing Drupal sites with AEgir: Importing Your Site »
