Today I presented a session about On-page SEO for Drupal to my colleagues at Propeople. The session went great and I would like to share the slides. The presentation is showing what type of SEO techniques you can apply to optimize your Drupal site and all this only with contributed modules.
If you do SEO on Drupal this slideshow will be interesting for you. Please take a look.
Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2
Check out the home page: http://sphinxsearch.com/
sphinx needs mysql_config program, install it with:
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
wget http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.8.tar.gz
tar xvf sphinx-0.9.8.tar.gz && rm sphinx-0.9.8.tar.gz
cd sphinx-0.9.8
./configure
make
sudo make install
Remy Sharp created a new screencast and detailed tutorial on “how to create a coda slider effect using jQuery:“ Although Panic didn’t really invent the effect, the sliding panels on the Coda is great implementation of this effect.
Recreating this effect is simple to do if you know what plugins to use. There are plugins out in the wild already, but we want our jQuery to satisfy the following requirements:
Drupal is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS), designed for power and flexibility. Boasting one of the biggest professional developer communities, Drupal is quickly becoming one of the leading PHP content management systems in the world. This article explores several key points of Drupal, and the reason why I use it as a base for web solutions.
What is the power of Drupal?
Drupal excels as a CMS and also as a development platform. It has a strong core capable of large flexibility. This means that the system can support many types of features with ease, from shopping carts to user profiles, calendars, galleries and beyond. Drupal can handle just about anything you can imagine. As developers, we embrace this flexibility because it allows us to turn any website dream into reality.
The .htaccess file included with Drupal tells Apache to send all 404 requests to Drupal to handle. While this is great in some cases, the performance degradation can have a huge impact on a site that has millions of users.
When Drupal processes a 404, it has to bootstrap Drupal, which includes Apache loading up the PHP process, gathering all of the Drupal PHP files, connecting to the database, and running some queries. This is quite expensive when Apache can be told to simply say "Page not found" without having to incur any of that overhead.
