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Mobile Drupal

Webmaster Tips — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:20:13 +0000

If you haven't seen it yet, check out a new site about building Drupal sites for mobile phones called MobileDrupal.com.

Installing Drupal 7 March 4, 2009 - Memory error

Webmaster Tips — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:16:44 +0000

I've been experimenting with the dev version of Drupal 7 and was initially having problems with the PHP memory. This is the memory error that I was getting:

An error occurred. http://d7tank.localhost/install.php?locale=en&profile=default&id=1&op=do Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35 bytes) in /home/me/workspace/d7tank/includes/registry.inc on line 153

Here is the solution:

Google's new display for Forums in the SERPs

Webmaster Tips — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:10:52 +0000

Google is showing a new type of display for forums in the SERPs, where they list a selection of forum posts related to your query. I think it's a great idea:

Are Ad-based URL Shortening Tools Ruining Twitter?

Webmaster Tips — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:43:31 +0000

There has been a disturbing trend on Twitter lately that has been making Twitter very frustrating to use: frame-based URL shortening tools.

How to Find Files With Linux

Webmaster Tips — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:16:17 +0000

I just bought a new laptop (Thinkpad T500, which I'll review later) and was trying to copy the files from my old laptop to a portable hard drive. There was an error every time the computer tried to copy a file that contained a colon or a question mark.

If Twitter is Ruby on Rails, Why Is There a PHP Session ID?

Webmaster Tips — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:49:21 +0000

I was looking for CNN's main Twitter profile tonight so I typed it into Google and saw this weird URL:
twitter.com/cnn?PHPSESSID=55e3829a1bbc090475d430a754192e4b

Interesting Links for December 9, 2008

Webmaster Tips — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:56:56 +0000

Here are som interesting Drupal & open source links that I've been reading today:

rel="dofollow" and rel="follow"

Webmaster Tips — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:42:26 +0000

I've been getting a fair number of blog comments lately with link attributes like rel="dofollow" and rel="follow". Their purpose is to try to override the CMS' nofollow settings. Trying to override my website settings is extremely obnoxious. I immediately ban anyone who leaves comments like that.

I don't believe that search engines will start following links that have those made-up attributes on them, though it's an unknown because technically, an HTML element can't have two rel attributes. Do any search engines discard the 2nd attribute? (nofollow)

How Drupal Stores Dates in MySQL

Webmaster Tips — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:06:28 +0000

Drupal stores dates in Unix time format. I had to look this up because I was trying to find email addresses for users who joined after a certain date. I used a SQL query in phpmyadmin and then exported into an OpenOffice spreadsheet:

Drupal 6 vs. Drupal 5

Webmaster Tips — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:54:19 +0000

A few people have recently asked me: Should I use Drupal 5 or Drupal 6?

Drupal 6 is stable and it has a lot of great features that aren't available in Drupal 5. The only reason I would use Drupal 5 for a new site is if using a module that were only available for Drupal 5. Ubercart is one that comes to mind. (I haven't used Ubercart, but it was recommended to me as the ideal way to to ecommerce in Drupal.)