Danang Probo Sayekti's blog

Danland was released about four months ago, but now on the first page at Drupal.org themes directory. Not bad for a newcomer, right? :)

Until when this article was written, Danland been used more than 1800 sites. But this calculation is not one hundred percent correct because this is only calculated for sites that turn-on the Update Status module, so the users of the theme must be more than that.

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A few days ago there was something quite startling, I got a PageRank 8 for one of my site. This happened after my hosting do maintenance on their servers, and my website can not be accessed during one to two days.

Looks like when the site could not be accessed, the Google's spiders redirected to a site that has a high PageRank. In a few days or weeks would all go back to normal PageRank again.

But has a PageRank 8 is awesome, even it's fake :).

Minimalist is the most simple and minimalist theme I ever created. It only consist of two column layout, table-less, and has a fixed width layout.

This minimalist theme is very easy to customize, you can learn how Drupal theme work by studying this simple theme.

Minimalist theme complete features:

• Two column layout
• Tableless design for SEO
• Fixed width layout

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Simpler is my first Drupal theme, created in February 18, 2010. To get a CVS account, I submit this theme to the Drupal community. First it use table but when final release I convert it to table-less design.

This theme was inspired by CNET Download.com, but I just take a bit of style from CNET website, which is the upper part of theme and the footer region.

Simpler is simple and clean Drupal theme, designed for cross-browser compatibility; tested in Firefox, IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome.

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I think my decision to become a freelance Drupal developer and themer about one month ago is very timely decision. There are two kinds of rates that I charge to my clients, hourly rate and fixed rate.

For hourly rate, I charged when a client requires only small things like adding or fixing the CSS, create a simple form and others small things. My current hourly rates is $45, can be more in the future :). For fixed rate, I switch to this kind of rate type when my clients need a big projects, yes like creating a custom theme, creating a site etc.

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The best place to promote your capabilities as a Drupal developer and themer is at Drupal.org. Yes, maybe it was irrelevant to make money from open source software such as Drupal, but what we sell is our time.

We get paid to create a custom module, custom theme or creating a site and it requires quite a long time depending on how hard would it, and time is money right? :)

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A few days ago I finally decided to try to put Google Adsense on some of my sites. Curious because Google Adsense is one opportunity to earn income on the internet, so at least I can learn how it works.

For installation is very easy, we just simply paste the code supplied by Google. The most difficult is to get enough traffic, so the possibility of visitors clicking on ads on our website will be greater.

I found an interesting facts related to the XPS document on Sharepoint, you can read the issue here. He is using Microsoft XPS Viewer to open and digitally signs an XPS document but he found the following facts:

• XPS documents are not signed while the signing process has been done before.
• The XPS document is locked on a server.
• All document properties (metadata) are set to its default values.

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After preparing for two and three months, now Danetsoft finally been able to provide services such as custom design and web development for Drupal. And to further convince the new client, I created a few themes that can be used free of charge at Drupal.org.

The development of my new business is quite exciting, just a few weeks of opening, now I already have several new clients. Many positive effects that I get after contributing on Drupal.org, for example is getting a free backlinks.

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A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to create custom themes for Drupal with worth 2000 USD. A hefty price for making a theme only, for the design of these themes has been prepared by my client in the form of PSD files.

I accepted the offer at a cheap price because in the days to come it seems we have decided to become a partner, why I said cheap? because the design desired by my clients is quite complicated, of course this is a consequence should I receive to acquire new partners.

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Currently I manage multiple websites simultaneously, yes all of the website is a tool that I use for promoting the software I have created. Indeed not all of it is a tool of promotion, there is one website which is a reminder tool. Reminder tool? What does this mean? From the record everything booked, I prefer to record everything on the website.

Below are websites that until today still managed by me:

• Danetsoft: This website is the center of all the business that I run on the internet. From software to web development services.

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Danland is my third theme that I contributed to Drupal.org, and when this article was created, Danland is the most popular theme I have ever made. Danland was made based on the original design of Webstep by Maksimer AS.

At first release, Danland not include features such as image slideshow, superfish menu and pngFix. And at the next versions, I integrate the jQuery plugins to add functionality to Danland.

In less than two months, Danland already used more than 1000 websites. Here are the features of Danland:

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As a software developer, is a regular thing if the software we've made were hijacked by irresponsible people. This happened on my latest software, Split XPS Merge.

Of course there are disappointment feelings, but it is a consequence of the work I do now. I know this fact approximately one week after the software was released, though the price of the Split XPS Merge only $ 24.9.

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Here I am talking about the Split XPS Merge, this application is designed to split and merge multiple XPS document. Actually this is an application that is in Danet Studio, the application is Danet Merger.

I just released a demo version of this application, the Danet Studio price is 49 USD per license and because the application is actually also part of Danet Studio so I just peg the price of $ 24.9.

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I know the XPS document format in early-2008, I really like tinkering with my computer and accidentally found XPSViewer.exe. I was intrigued and immediately clicking on the .exe file, but nothing happened, why?

Out of curiosity, then looked on the internet and found the answers I was looking for. That is the story of how I know the XPS document format :)

In early January 2009, I released Danet Studio. Danet Studio is a compilation of various kinds of software that is built using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and my first app include a viewer to open XPS format, the name of the viewer is Danet Viewer.

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Yesterday there was one of my clients send me an e-mail related to the error in one module of Danet Studio, here is the email he sent:

I'm using Danet Studio 2.03 Pro, to merge some (large, total size around 45MB) XPS documents created from the Windows XPS Document Writer, and Danet Merger is crashing when trying to open these files. The process was taking over 4GB of memory! Something is very wrong here. I'm using Windows 7, 64-bit (Home Premium ver), on a Core i7 computer with 6GB of memory.

Actually it is not an error in Danet Studio itself, but for now Danet Studio does not yet support 64-bit operating system. And the solution I provide is to install a virtual machine on his computer like Microsoft Virtual PC, VMWare or Sun's Virtual Box.

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What does the word danpros mean? the word danpros is actually a composite of several parts of my name:

• Danang -> dan
• Probo -> pro
• Sayekti -> s

And this word is very appropriate to be used as the name of my personal website.

In addition the word danpros can also be separated into two word "Dan Pros", and can be interpret as the positive aspects of Dan.

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