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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
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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