Archive for February, 2007

Website Google Search results within your Drupal site

By fiLi • Feb 28th, 2007 • Category: Drupal, Making Money

I’ve played around with how to integrate Google Search results for the Drupal installations within the Drupal site, and finally found the right posts on how to make that happen in Drupal.
This is an extremely useful feature for two reasons :

Builtin Drupal search is very heavy on database and query resources and this allows giving [...]



Drupal SEO - using robots.txt to avoid content duplication

By fiLi • Feb 22nd, 2007 • Category: Drupal, SEO

Google really doesn’t like content duplication on sites and so it is advisable to prevent the Google crawler from reaching the same content on your site from more than one url. Since Drupal does offer many ways of reaching your content, you should block certain URL and URL paths by defining the right robots.txt.
Up till [...]



Fixing PNG transparency display problem with IE6

By fiLi • Feb 22nd, 2007 • Category: Web Development

One of the most annoying bugs in IE6 that I keep running into is lack of support for a PNG file that isn’t PNG8. In order to for a PNG24 to display transparency right in IE6 it has to be converted to a PNG8, and so, attached here is a small DOS command line tool [...]



IE7 login problems on various Drupal installations

By fiLi • Feb 21st, 2007 • Category: Drupal

Seems like this has been a major issue in many Drupal installations. After reading through endless articles on this bug, here are the two patches I’ve applied to different installations for Drupal 4.7.6:
http://drupal.org/node/6696#comment-182857
Symptom: I cant log in even though I entered the correct username and password. It just reloads the page with the log in, [...]



The quick guide on how to optimize your Adsense ads

By fiLi • Feb 3rd, 2007 • Category: Making Money

Optimizing the Adsense ads is important in order to maximize profit, and although the basic optimization methods are very easy to implement I still see many of my colleagues who do not follow them. This post will include a quick review of the most basic optimization steps. I take no responsibility for the information provided [...]