all pages on a Drupal web site won't display (page not found)
You migrate you database from a dump but all of a sudden no page is found. No matter what you do you get a 'no page is found'.read more
View ArticleTurning Drupal maintenance mode on or off (site offline/online) with mySQL
If you are already on the Linux command line or inside phpMyAdmin when you need to take a site off-line for maintenance then you may prefer to simply enter the following than log into Drupal and...
View ArticleUsing drupal's taxonomy for navigation
"Taxonomy" in Drupal is the native way to categorize nodes. So what do you do with the nodes created? You can use it for navigation purposes. A link will get you all nodes with a specific taxonomy set...
View ArticleUsing MYSQLDUMP to backup a database
If you have a shell or SSH access to your database server, you can backup the database using mysqldump. By default, the output of the command will dump the contents of the database in SQL statements to...
View ArticleSocial marketing cost vs time
Many businesses, including "mom and pop shops" want to use this new thing called social marketing, but don't know where to start. This article will focus on the Social Media side of the issue. While...
View Articleimage formats and compression
There are several kinds of images on a computer so which one do you use? They impact the image quality and file size differently because of something called "compression". In other articles I'll...
View Articletaxonomy flat lists
This is a real world example of using a series of flat taxonomy lists to categorize information. We'll be categorizing BMW car models and organizing them by car style and engine displacement. Since the...
View ArticleGetting the URL of an attached image in Drupal7
$file=file_load($node->field_name["und"][0]['fid']); $image_link = image_style_url( "thumbnail", $file->uri);
View Articlemerchant account basics
I found a very good article on merchant accounts on the web but there was some Google Positioning SPAM- I think that is what it is called- so I cut out all the references to the other site that would...
View ArticleHarlan Kilstein's talk on SEO
I recently attended a webinar by Harlan Kilstein and Tom Beal about blog curation that also went into positioning a site on Google without any black-hat tricks that SEO consultants have been trying to...
View ArticleSSN's stolen from South Carolina's tax revenue site
South Carolina recently announced that the South Carolina Department of Revenue (SCDOR) was broken into and many of the taxpaying citizens have had their Social Security and/or Credit/Debit Cards...
View ArticleBackoff POS with remote desktop
Point-of-Sale (PoS) software is extremely convenient and insecure at the same time. It is so convenient that not having it available puts a merchant in a very negative marketing position with the...
View Articleheartbleed
A 2 year old program flaw was recently found in OpenSSL- a security library used by almost every website on the Internet. It is supposed to keep us secure, not to give away our information like it did....
View ArticleA team made of brother and sister won a hackathon with a supposed lossless...
Piper Pied is a team of brother and sister. Peter Ma and Nancy Ghaly presented Piper Pied, a lossless compression algorithm for online images, at the Disrupt NY Hackathon today. The startup is a...
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