WEUS.Net

It has become the hallmark of Drupal if the search submit button is located on the right side. The search on Drupal actually can be made arbitrarily, submit button on the left side and it can be replaced with pictures.

We will give you a tutorial to change the look of the search form on Drupal. Here are the steps to create your own custom search for your Drupal theme:

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Beginning this June, there were rumors that Google will update the PageRank in late June or early July. A good news for webmasters all over the world. Personally, we are also curious about how WEUS.Net will get the PageRank, our website is still very young, yes despite the fact that these domains have been around more than five years ago, but we owned this domain only since a few weeks ago.

Previously WEUS.Net is already deleted from the Registrar, and we were lucky no one enrolled the domain again until we found it. If not mistaken this domain is deleted around the December 2009, previous owner of this domain parked the WEUS.Net at SEDO.

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Prior to select the module or theme, there is much to consider. One who deserves to consider is the amount of usage of the module or theme we want to use, more and more users the more visible the quality of the modules or themes we wish to use, but you have to remember, many users it has not been definitely better than those that have fewer users.

In Drupal, there is a module in its development objective is to examine the module or theme installed on a website, this module name is the Update Status module. But the Update Status module does not know the status of any module or theme that was not installed via a tarball produced by Drupal.org.

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To facilitate the development of a theme, sometimes we need a starter theme for accelerating the development process, especially if we have a limited time. With a starter theme, the development will be much easier because of existing frameworks.

There are several starter themes that are available at Drupal.org and all are worthy to try. Here are those themes:

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A few days ago we redirect one of our old website to new website, to do this redirection we just write some lines of code in our .htaccess file, what we want here is a permanent redirection with code 301. Below is the code to redirect your old domain to your new domain:

  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain.com$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-domain.com$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.new-domain\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]

With the above code, you had redirected the old domain without www and with www to your new domain, and also its contents. So if in your old website has about.html page then it will redirected to your new website, and to avoid 404 file not found error message, you should creating about.html page too in your new website.

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There are many ways that we can do to attract the attention of the reader or visitor, one of which is to create an attractive appearance on our website. Of course, the content of our website is the most important thing, attractive appearance but is not balanced with useful content for our readers is also a vain thing.

One of the things you can do to enhance the appearance of your website is to add a slideshow, can include articles, images or videos. In Drupal website, you do not need to add it manually using jQuery plugins like Cycle because there is a module that provides this slideshow feature, you just download and install it.

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The needs for Drupal developers and Drupal theme makers seem to continue to increase from year to year. This is in line with the growing popularity of Drupal among site owners and companies.

As we already know in advance that free themes for Drupal is still very limited, whereas demand for the Drupal themes are very much. In fact, many vendors popping up and give an offer to create a custom themes for Drupal.

The price of custom themes for Drupal is very varied, from the price of 150 dollars to 3000 dollars or even more expensive. Here we will try to give an illustration how approximately the price of this custom theme when viewed from the quality of the resulting themes.

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Web designers and programmers need a place to test their work, whether it be websites or images. They can test their work on their own computers without any access to the Internet. There is a software that is designed to meet these needs, the software is XAMPP.

XAMPP is an open source web server software package developed by an organization calling itself the Apache Friends. XAMPP's name is an acronym for:

• X (meaning cross-platform)
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP
• Perl

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In Drupal, there is a very useful feature to reduce the load on the server every time there are anonymous visitors coming, the feature is page cache. Every time someone comes to your website, then Drupal perform executions to the database to obtain necessary data to generate the html file which is read by a web browser.

Drupal builds a new web page for every visitors, so if two visitors visiting the same page, Drupal builds it twice. But with the page cache feature turned on, Drupal will save the web page when first visitors come, and give the saved pages to other visitors. Stored cache expires depending on how long you set the Minimum cache lifetime options.

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Recently our server implement a new configuration for Apache and PHP.

The effect of this change, many complaints which revealed that after the changes then occur an internal server error with code 500. Having studied the problem apparently arises because of Apache’s mod_rewrite do not run perfectly.

Problems can be solved by un-comment the following code in your .htaccess file:

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This is maintenance release of the Drupal 6 series. Only bugfixes and minor improvements have been committed. New features are only being added to the forthcoming Drupal 7.0 release. This release does not fix any security issues.

Download Drupal 6.17.

What's new in Drupal 6.17

• Improvements of session cookie handling.
• Better processing of XML-RPC payloads.
• Improved PostgreSQL, PHP 5.3 and PHP 4 compatibility.

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Handbook is very necessary for beginners, with the handbook so it is easier to learn something. For online documentations of Drupal core was already a very complete. However, the documentation for contributed themes is still very lacking.

The following are the available Drupal theme handbook at Drupal.org:

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PADGen or Portable Application Description Generator is a software that must be owned by software authors who wants to distribute the software globally.

PADGen very helpful in making a product description and specifications for online sources in a standard way. With the standardization of data format then it will allow webmasters and the authors to automate program listings.

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IRC is the perfect solution for interpersonal communication via the Internet, especially communication in groups to discuss something, and the place is usually called Channel.

There are many IRC clients you can use, from commercial to free IRC clients. Here we will give you some solution if you want to use a free IRC clients. After searching using Google, we found several free IRC client and we list the two of it:

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As we already know beforehand if Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6 can not handle transparency in PNG image format. This is a challenge for a web developer, especially for Themer.

For Drupal, there is already a module that overcomes the shortcomings of Internet Explorer 6 or older version, the module is pngFix. But how to solve this problem without using a module?

You can overcome this problem by integrating jQuery pngFix directly into your Drupal theme, Drupal already included jQuery so that it can be more easily and quickly.

Here are the steps to add jQuery pngFix into your theme:

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Maybe you already feel the benefits of using Drupal and want to make Drupal gets better. Yes, contributors are Drupal's most valuable asset, and contributors are the sole force behind improvements to the platform and the community itself.

There are many ways you can take to help Drupal:

• Provide user support

  There is no limit skills to do this, the most important is the willingness to help others in using or understanding Drupal. You can sharing what you know with other users who need support.

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Overcoming the Spam in our Drupal website is a work that is sometimes quite time-consuming. Spam also increases caused by the search engines like Google with its PageRank, which makes website owners do variety of ways to get a high PageRank, one of them is by doing a Spam comment on the comment form provided on an article, or creating a spam forum post.

There are many Drupal modules available to stop the Spammers, for example are Captcha or Mollom. Both module blocks robot spam submissions by requiring users to answer a challenge question before posting a comment, or registering etc.

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