Archives for the ‘Drupal’ Category

Drupal SEO : A complete beginners step-by-step video tutorial

By fiLi • Dec 21st, 2007 • Category: Drupal, SEO

Doing Drupal SEO is easy. Drupal’s platform has some great out of the box SEO. You can do a few more Drupal SEO tweaks like use supporting modules I wrote about in “Drupal SEO : The top Drupal SEO modules and how to use them“, make sure you’re “Drupal SEO: using robots.txt to […]



Drupal : When Cron jobs do not complete and Cron jobs tips

By fiLi • Jul 7th, 2007 • Category: Drupal

 Cron jobs are an essential part of most Drupal installations. Cron jobs take care of Drupal maintenance, synchronization, pinging, spam and other important aspects. Every module implements it own cron hook and cron goes and executes the function. It sometimes happens that the cron jobs you’re running fail and you have no idea how. All […]



PHP session cookies : A global Drupal login problem fix

By fiLi • May 22nd, 2007 • Category: Drupal

Drupal has made it to 5.1 without dealing with one serious PHP problem of handling session cookies, causing various Drupal login problems in different configurations. I’ve been following Drupal forums for a long time and I’ve never seen a more wide-spread annoying bug. Myself, I’ve faced this bug on more than one occasion and can […]



Drupal : Change DB and table collation to Unicode (UTF-8)

By fiLi • Apr 27th, 2007 • Category: Drupal, Web Development

Drupal supports Unicode (UTF-8) out of the box and so Unicode should be used for all your Drupal installations. Problem is, some things you do with your Drupal installation might result in a database or a table that have non-unicode  collation.
Here are a few general tips on making sure everything is using Unicode […]



The external links dilemma : How to mark, preview, open-new and AJAX your outgoing links

By fiLi • Apr 12th, 2007 • Category: Drupal, Web Development, Wordpress

External links are always a dilemma as a user that follows an external link using a simple click will leave your site. Can the visitors know what is an internal link and an external link? Do your visitors know that they’re leaving the site and when they do - will they come back?
Here’s my impression of […]