Coder’s Eye

Thanks to Andy C I’ve finished the Wordpress import script for Banjo.
That article gives instructions for direct SQL loading of a somewhat different blog database. I couldn’t use it directly for Banjo, partially because I’m through with using MySQL. I just can’t take all the UTF problems any more. I’ve gone all […]

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Drupal, along with a decent CSS based theme, makes it much easier to build and maintain a well optimized site which Search engines can read with the greatest of ease.
That’s one of the jealously guarded "secrets" of the SEO elites. Basically, just take the viewpoint of the search engine or a blind person. […]

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A short tale about squashing a bug.
You see, my mistrust for IE made me miss the real problem. What was happening was that in IE 7 on Vista, a site I’m building for a client was not loading any Javascript. It wasn’t even loading the base Javascript "jquery.js" and "drupal.js", so my site […]

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I’m building a new Drupal 5 site for a client, and I was dreading the hack-work I was going to have to do to make it look like what the designer had come up with. There are at least five distinct page templates in the crazy thing!So, I started trying to figure out how I would handle such a beast.

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My first e-commerce client is up and running with her CubeCart store.Cynthia Joba sells high-quality prints and custom commissions to individuals and corporations. She didn’t want a boring, “stock” store, so we did something very creative.The site is not my design, but all the front-end code is mine, and all the custom interfaces with CubeCart as well.

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One of the first post on this site was Multi-blogging made easy.

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This morning I logged into Feedburner to check my stats. AAAARGH! 0 subscribers on all my blogs.

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I’m using Joomla with VirtueCart for a new business venture.

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If you are using Wordpress, and you aren’t using the built-in plugin “Akismet”, are you insane? Or are you a bit confused about that API Key thing you need?See, you need that plugin. Or at least you will once the comspammers find you.

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I’ve been delaying using a related entries plugin because it didn’t fit with my normal way of posting. See, it uses a Wordpress custom field "keywords" to do its matching.

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