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Updating Drupal

Compared to WordPress's automated self-updates, Drupal's update process is something of a chore. This chore isn't made any easier by Drupal's documentation (also here), which at the time of writing takes up nine pages, is self-contradictory, unnecessarily time-consuming and somewhat paranoid. And it never offers a canonical pragmatic checklist. After…
Taavo
July 28, 2009
TutorialsWeb Development

Battling Website Viruses

We  spent some time trying to remove a nasty bit of malware code from one of my client's servers today.  On their windows server, this virus used javascript to create a list of invisible links (in an i-frame) to bugged websites in the page footer.  On their Unix/Linux accounts, the virus added…
Todd Dumas
June 22, 2009
Project LaunchesTutorialsWeb Development

Testing with Drupal 6.1

We received another inquiry this week regarding Drupal website maintenance -- that was enough to get us motivated to learn the basics of the CMS system. We installed Drupal on our new testing site: www.websitedesigndenver.com, and we will be experimenting with the application over the next couple weeks. Feel free…
Todd Dumas
May 28, 2009
DesignTutorials

And a brief(er) list of uber helpful tools

From Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 - awesome package InContext CMS - great way to upgrade static sites to allow for basics client CMS Spry Datasets - fast way to create a mini-database.  tragically, not readable by search engines Flash FLV player - quickly stream most media From others Wordpress - fast, simple, powerful…
Todd Dumas
February 4, 2009
DesignTutorials

CSS vs. Table Layouts – A hybrid solution

As most web designers know, there is a debate raging over the use of HTML Tables (ie. table, tr, td, etc.) in the construction of web page layouts. The main issue is that CSS offers no simple (and supported) solution for the creation of basic, vertically flexible, columns. In fact,…
Todd Dumas
January 2, 2009