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May 17 2011

New Website Launched for NfldSocietyBC.com

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New website for NfldSocietybc.com. Upgraded from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6. More details to follow.
May 14 2011

Welcome to the Surrey Drupal Meetup

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Hello! My name is Katy. I love helping people to learn how to use Drupal to promote their business online. I own and operate a small web development company called SeascapeWebDesign.com. We do graphics design and Drupal web development. If you need a dynamic way to connect with your new clients, we will be happy to explain how Drupal can work for you.
May 12 2011

Surrey Drupal Meetup: Drupal Showcase May 12, 2011

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I'm looking forward to our meetup tonight. Shaun Dychko of http://www.giancolianswers.com/ will demonstrate how he set up his membership site with subscriptions.  Katy will be demonstrating a Property Rentals website.

May 6 2011

How to build a Shopping Cart with Drupal’s Ubercart

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Ubercart is a an excellent shopping cart that fully integrates with your Drupal website. If you want to sell products online, set up membership subscriptions or collect online payments, then Ubercart is a good solution for you.
Current Features:
  • Configurable product catalog includes catalog pages and a block to display product categories
  • Flexible product creation system It’s easy to add new products and to specify attributes such as color, and size.
  • Single page checkout. All checkout information gathered on a single screen composed of configurable checkout panes.
May 2 2011

LangleyCityRentals.com Launches May 2, 2011

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LangleyCityRentals.com was launched today. Developed in Drupal 6, it advertises apartment and townhouse rentals in Langley City.  The listing pages contain lots of photos and detailed description of the amenities and location of each property. Google maps are embedded in the page to show the location. Each listing has a custom email the building manager feature. The contact info for the building manager is prominently displayed on each page. Rental Application forms are available for download in .PDF format.

Visit LangleyCityRentals.com today!
Apr 26 2011

Use HTML5 now to enhance your Drupal projects

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Here are 4 valuable resources  to help you apply HTML5 to your Drupal projects.

1. Use Boron as a starter theme and build your own HTML5 Drupal theme for Drupal 6 and 7. http://drupal.org/project/boron

2. Learn how to incorporate HTML5 in your Drupal projects here:
http://groups.drupal.org/html5

3. Drupal has an HTML 5 video player module.
http://drupal.org/project/videojs

4. More info on HTML5 here:
http://www.html5rocks.com/

Apr 26 2011

Beware of CPU Throttling - Dangerous to your website health?

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CPU Throttling has caused my client's Drupal website to respond very slowly to the point of disabling it occasionally. This website has only moderate traffic and overall moderate activity. My client is an author and publishes several articles every couple days.

But he chose to host his website at Bluehost using low cost shared hosting. And then he contacted me for help when he couldn't save the articles he had just written. The server was just too busy.
Apr 19 2011

How to Improve your Drupal Admin Interface

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These 3 modules are 3 of my most favourite modules for Drupal 6. They do a lot to improve the look and feel and functionality of your Drupal admin panel.
 
1. Better Messages http://drupal.org/project/better_messages
This handy little module is amazing and makes your error messages look great. Instead of having Drupal admin messages showing up in your page and breaking your theme, you can view your messages in a beautiful graphical style with the Better Messages module. This module displays admin messages in an overlay and you can customize the location and even make it draggable. Just install the jQuery UI module and choose “Make Better Messages draggable” at the bottom of module configuration page.
 
Apr 18 2011

The Best Way to Update Contributed Modules in Drupal

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Here is the best way to update contributed modules on your Drupal 6 website:
 
1. Put your site into Site Maintenance mode. Go to Site Configuration>Site Maintenance and set your Site status to offline.
2. Flush the cache. Go to Site Configuration>Performance. Scroll down towards the bottom of the page and click on “Clear cached data” button. I recommend installing the module called "Admin menu". (http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu) It places all the Drupal Admin functions in a menu bar at the top of your screen. You can easily clear the cache by clicking on the favicon on the upper left side of the menu and select "Flush all caches". As a Drupal developer, I end up clearing the cache a lot so having this shortcut is really helpful.
Apr 13 2011

Surrey Drupal Meetup: April 14, 2011: How to Use Template.php to Power your Drupal Themes

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I'm looking forward to our meetup tomorrow evening. Colin Calnan, Drupal Developer at Raised Eyebrow Studio, will be presenting on How to use Template.php to Power your Drupal Themes.

Colin says:
We'll explore the purpose of the template.php file in theming as well as the relevant Drupal API functions. We'll then delve deeper into creating the most basic functions needed in the file. Finally we'll explore the process of reading the code of other modules to help you find the places where you can change their output via template.php
Come and join us at 6:30 pm for our meetup at the ABC Restaurant in Fleetwood. Please RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/surrey-drupal/events/16607568/