Drupal is an open source Content Management System (CMS) available in more than 180 languages. In fact Drupal is more than a Content Management System (CMS), because it offers advanced programming features, so you can use it as a developer tool also. Below is a intro to just a few pros & cons of using Drupal.

Pros of Using Drupal

1. Drupal offers all the basic functionality required for developing a basic website, it includes Systems Administration, Page Layout Customization, RSS Feeds, User Account Administration and Menu Management. You can manage different content types like videos, polls and simple text as well. Those who want to develop a community website or forum can do it easily.
2. Drupal provides ready-to-use themes and templates so you can be up and running out-of-the-box very quickly. Developers can also create unique dynamic theme like many other CMS.
3. It provides components for building blocks of the website which helps to define content and rules quickly. It comes with pre-defined configuration to build complex websites quickly.
4. There are more than 7000 modules providing extensive designing capabilities. Many of these modules can communicate with each other seamlessly thanks to Drupal’s unique “node” system.

Con’s of Using Drupal

Drupal provides extensive design & development capabilities but it has some disadvantages also.

1. Backward compatibility can somestimes be an issue since new major releases often contain radical improvements in functionality, scalability and usability with existing modules.
2. Loading in Drupal is relatively slower compared to WordPress, this is because of the large number of tools.
3. While the Drupal community is constantly growing, many of the current modules provide very little documentation. These are often modules less in demand. Because of this, it’s sometimes difficult to understand how & where to configure newly installed modules.

I have started dabbling in Drupal development and successfully created a Drupal 7 site with custom theme. I am now onto Drupal site #2 and while installing Drupal 6 the page kept refreshing and clearing the fields on the Database setup phase. For anyone else who has this problem, the fix is very easy.

Chances are, you are on step 3 and entering your database name, password, etc. On submission the page just refreshes providing no error or details.

FIX: Do NOT rename default.settings.php into settings.php – Copy it. The original sites/default/default.settings.php must still exist along with settings.php

So I was installing a GoDaddy SSL certificate for http://davidalbertstainedglass.com and on completion when I visited the site with the https, Firefox & Chrome gave me the error “SSL Certificate Problem – This Connection is Untrusted.”

In some cases the SSl cert would even say it was already being used on another domain. I have had this problem twice and each time I had to contact GoDaddy and spend endless time getting it fixed. My solution for this problem is simply to shop elsewhere for SSL certificate.

Has anyone else had his problem?

Oracle’s core database software has been available for years with HP’s Integrity line of Itanium servers, but the E-Business Suite for finances and other corporate operations has been missing. But HP and Intel, which jointly designed the Itanium chip, have been working to expand the number of software partners in an attempt to fix a major problem that hampered the chip’s debut.

To emphasize the significance of the expanded partnership, HP and Intel sent their top executives to an Itanium-focused meeting Thursday with mutual customers at HP headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. Mark Hurd and Paul Otellini, the respective chief executives at HP and Intel, announced the partnership at the meeting, while Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison made a video appearance. Read more.

So I was installing Magento locally under WAMP configuration when I ran into a problem. The error during isntallation said “PHP extension “curl” must be loaded.”

If you are trying to install Magento on your localhost with wamp and also have this problem, here is the solution.

1. Left-Click on the wamp icon in your taskbar
2. Navigate to PHP
3. Left-Click php.ini
4. Next press “Ctrl + F” to search the document and look for “curl” in this document.
   Find the line saying “;extension=php_curl.dll”
5. Uncomment this line of code by removing the semicolon ;
6. Save/close the file.
7. Restart all WAMP services.
8. Refresh Magento installation page and viola.

Let me know if this helps anyone.

I have been using Dreamweaver CS4 for some time now, but I just opened the program and got that error. If you are experiencing this error it’s likely that your layout files were corrupted.

I have been getting this xml parsing fatal error: stating that the file Designer.xml could not be read. Here is the easy fix:

1. From any explorer window or your control panel. Click Tools>Folder Options. Click the View Tab. Click ‘Show hidden files and folders’.
2. Depending on your OS navigate to C:
   :/….Application
   Data/Adobe/Dreamweaver/en_us/Configuration/Workspace. Create a new folder
   and move all the files in that directory into this new folder. Restart
   Dreamweaver and you should be back in business.

Please let me know if this helped anyone!

1. Download the required files:

Click, Download
and extract the files. Your peel/ folder
should contain the following files:

• large.swf
• large.jpg
• small.swf
• small.jpg
• peel.js

Plan where you should upload this folder at later stage. For

2. Edit peel.js

Open peel.js with your favorite text editor. Change
these following settings:

1. jaaspeel.ad_url – URL you intend to point to.
2. jaaspeel.small_path – Path to small.swf
3. jaaspeel.small_image – Path to small.jpg
4. jaaspeel.big_path – Path to large.swf
5. jaaspeel.big_image – Path to large.jpg

Here’s an example, assuming the domain is kevinorin.com
and I’m pointing it to kevinw.me

3. Edit the images

• small.jpg – The small background
  visitors see before content
  behind gets revealed. Edit if you’d like to match it with your
  background.
• large.jpg – What
  visitors will see after pointing
  their mouse to ‘peel the page off’. This is the image you’ll want to
  edit.

Both flash files, small.swf and large.swf can be left un-touch.

4. Upload files

Upload the entire peel/ folder to via FTP
your web account. Make sure it matches with the settings you’ve entered
earlier in Step 2.

5. Add Javascript in header

Add the following Javascript after <title> before </head>.

<script src="/WOW/<strong>http://www.domain.com/peel.js</strong>" type="text/javascript"></script>

You are done! Refresh the

Tens of thousands of small businesses, agencies, and entrepreneurs worldwide depend on Basecamp to get their projects done. As a Project manager I have worked with many project management software for many projects and Basecamp is the first product I’ve seen that is versatile for everyone and has everything you need including time-tracking/logging of hours. Even my employer InterRep (Internet Marketing Company) uses Basecamp for their clients.

Basecamp also has a few iPhone apps that makes mobile management & collaboration a breeze. Check out http://basecamphq.com/buzz or click my promotion code “KEVINWILLIAMS” to see all that Basecamp has to offer with plans starting as low as $24 per month.

Me, my clients & team love Basecamp, I’m sure you will too!

With Cloud Hosting, there’s no hardware to manage, no devices to configure and no worries about your Websites going down under heavy traffic loads.  Cloud Sites available through Rackspace runs your existing applications and works like you’d expect.  The cloud is fully managed, fully supported & best of all fully scalable!  Right from the second you upload your Websites to Cloud Sites, your sites are hosted on advanced clustered cloud–computing technology designed for high–traffic and high–performance.  When your site grows bigger than what’s included, you pay inexpensive scale pricing for exactly what you use on the cloud and nothing more.

Cloud hosting starts at $100 via Rackspace.com. Available to my new & current clients I am offering hosting space available starting as low as $10/mo.  This is a great opportunity to try the power of cloud hosting at a low monthly cost equivalent to most shared hosting packages.  Discounts available to clients who also need development services or eyeos Client PC. Contact me to try the best website hosting service on the web.

This is for those of you who hate carrying around your laptop, only possess a desktop PC, or just looking for a online Virtual PC.  Eyeos is a web desktop following the cloud computing concept.  It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and Javascript and acts as a platform for web applications written using the eyeos Toolkit.  It includes a Desktop environment with 67 applications and system utilities and is accessible by portable devices via its mobile front edu.  eyeos lets you upload your files and work with them no matter where you are and it contains applications like Word Processor, Address Book, PDF reader, and many more developed by community developers.

eyeos is now offered to existing clients as a addon package to your current products & services or as a standalone order for new clients.  Here are just a few benefits of eyeos.

For Personal Usage

The idea behind eyeos is that the whole system lives in the web browser. The client must have only a web browser to work with eyeos and all its applications, including Office and PIM ones. This applies for both the modern and obsolete PC’s. If you want to start using eyeos now, we have a public server where you can register your account right now.

For Education

eyeos can provide schools and universities a full web platform where students, teachers and parents will have a personal yet collaborative desktop to work, communicate between them and get organized inside and outside the school. The Students and teachers will have an intuitive and easy-to-learn Desktop System, to work with school resources and communicate with other students and teachers.

For Public Administrations

With a central server, eyeos can provide city councils, public library networks, free Internet points and other public environments the perfect system for their users to have a central place to work and communicate with the central managers, registering once and using it from every point.

Live Demo: View Client PC

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