Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 7 version on Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 or 10.8 Drupal is a quality CMS application and is as simple or complex as your needs vary, it runs on the same foundations that Mac OS X Mavericks or Mountain Lion, Lion or Snow Leopard provides similar to …
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Drupal SEO Settings – Configuring The Basics – All About Hiding the Node
Ok so here is the roadtrip to optimal SEO settings and best practice for Drupal, going from setting the URLs to be search engine friendly, creating URL aliases, creating default templated URL aliases, setting up redirects from older URL aliases. Setting up Page Titles, Meta Tags and Canonical links – lets get started… Clean URLs …
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Installing Piwik – Real Time Web Analytics – WordPress Joomla and Drupal
This is a tutorial on how to set up and install Piwik – an alternative to Google Analytics – with Piwik the data you have is stored on your server and not accessible by any other party. Piwik is an open source easy to use web analytical tool which provides stats in real time and …
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Sort out your Canonical URLs in Drupal – Force http://www
Avoid any content duplication and ensure Google opts for a particular version of your site when indexing – fix up your redirects to choose either http://yourdomain.com or http://www.yourdomain.com by putting in a 301 redirect. There is a possibility that failing to this may create duplicate content and be penalised by the Googler You can get …
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Fastest Way of Installing Drupal 7.22 on Mac OS X 10.7 , 10.6
Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 7 version on Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Drupal is a quality CMS application and is as simple or complex as your needs vary, it runs on the same foundations that Mac OS X Lion or Snow Leopard provides. This tutorial assumes a certain degree of comfort in …
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Change the Drupal Administration Appearance and Menu
Drupal 7 administration menu is quite a change from previous versions, in comes the administrative overlay which is like a partial transparent layer over the existing site. This is a subjective thing however I prefer to turn this off and have the backend looking opaque and to have a sense that it is a separate …
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Get Email Alerts of New Comments Awaiting Moderation Approval on Drupal
For new comments made by users in Drupal by default the only way to approve or delete new comments for moderation in is to log on and check on to the site directly. New comments are not alerted to an authenticated user. By setting up an action and trigger when a new comment is posted you …
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Fastest Way of Installing Drupal 6 on Mac OS X
Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 6 version on Mac OS X This assumes the web sharing method is the standard OS X user web sharing service as shared from ~/Sites, the shared drupal directory will be called “drupal“. The mysql database is called drupal and the mysql user is root, the password for …
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