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Metal Toad: How to Change the Content-Type Meta Tag in Drupal

I'm working on an HTML5 theme for Drupal 7 right now, and I needed to change the meta content-type tag. By default it looks like this: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />, and I needed the updated HTML5 version: <meta charset="utf-8" />. Normally, you can replace these things in one of the theme template files, but in this case, the meta tag was hard-coded in the Drupal source twinks code somewhere, so I needed a programmatic solution. Here's what I found for both Drupal 6 and 7.

Development Seed: Open Atrium Documentation Sprint: Lots of updates

15 new and updated documentation topics for the latest Open Atrium release

Jeff and I recently wrapped up our #docsprint to add new and updated documentation for 15 different topics around the latest Open Atrium release. Whether you want to build a new feature for your Open Atrium project, customize it, or give it a fresh new look, there's now documentation explaining how to do it.

Here are the highlights.read more live dominas

Stéphane Corlosquet: The Open Graph protocol and Drupal

A couple of days after Dries Buytaert gave his keynote at DrupalCon San Francisco and reaffirmed his support for the Semantic Web in Drupal, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced at the f8 developer conference the brand new Open Graph protocol, a technology to turn webpages into social objects and capture them in a social graph.read more

Stéphane Corlosquet: The Open Graph protocol and Drupal

A couple of days after Dries Buytaert gave his keynote at DrupalCon San Francisco and reaffirmed his support for the Semantic Web in Drupal, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg announced at the f8 developer conference the brand new Open Graph protocol, a technology to turn webpages into social objects and capture them in a social graph.read more

CivicActions: Defining Custom Node Content Types In A Module

What're you crazy!? Haven't you ever heard of the CCK module? Yes, it's true CCK coupled with views will allow one to create, manipulate and display custom content. Combined with hook_nodeapi, the cck/views combo is can be extremely powerful and flexible. 99% of the time these two modules are sufficient to handle the job of building and managing custom content. The problem arises when you need any sort of custom access control or ownership of your custom node content. With CCK, the ownership of the node belongs to node.module, and there's no 'access' operator exposed in hook_nodeapi. You could patch core ( http://drupal.org/node/143075 ), but in general, that's not really a road you want to start down.
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Nuvole: First Code Driven Development meet-up in Antwerp

Sharing tips and best practices.

Yesterday night the first "Code Driven Development" meet-up took place at the Krimson office in Antwerp (Belgium). Around 30 people were attending the meeting, most of them to learn more about this new "hype". Nuvole shared its experience in the field presenting "First Steps in Code Driven Development", both an introduction and a collection of tips and examples for a quick start.
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Lullabot: Impromptu Meetup in Houston Texas

Local event organizer asks, we provide!

Katherine Druckman, the local event organizer for the Houston Texas area, and Webmistress for http://www.linuxjournal.com asked if a Lullabot would be willing to come speak for the local group. Jerad Bitner is going to go and speak about his latest favorite development tool, Features! They'll be meeting at the Stag's Head Pub @2128 Portsmouth St in Houston, TX 77098. Join them for drinks and Drupal!
Go to the group page to sign up!
http://groups.drupal.org/node/69443read more

Achieve Internet: Customizing Multiple Views to Create a Porftolio Page

BellaPictures.com's portfolio page is one of the most important components of the site in terms of generating customers. On this page, Bella wanted to display the high-quality work of their photographers and also allow users to interact with the various portfolios in an application-like format.

The main focus of the page is a slideshow that displays wedding or engagement photos or, when available, a video. Below that are a small navigation bar and an image carousel. The left side of the page features information on the wedding and a link that allows the user to search for weddings in her/his area. Below this link is a list of other available wedding portfolios.

For all these components to work together, the Achieve Internet team had to dig deep into Views and JQuery.

Adding Additional Logic to Exposed Filters in Drupal's Views Moduleread more

Dana Blankenhorn: Alfresco's 3.3 ECM upgrade delivers CMIS support, integration with Lotus Notes, Outlook, Google Docs, Drupal,

Alfresco's first commercially supported implementation of CMIS provides interoperability of its enterprise content management system with IBM Lotus social software, Google Docs, Drupal and...

LevelTen Interactive: Drupal development workflow and editorial workflow

Drupal projects have grown to rely heavily on sitebuilding. Website creators use Drupal modules like Views and CCK to create site architecture. While sitebuilding patterns have become incredibly powerful and time-saving they created a significant deployment problem: How do you deploy new features on a live site? The first, and most obvious problem was that the results of sitebuilding work needed to be exported to code.

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Want to make your website work harder for your brand?

We find that one of our biggest complaints from Small Businesses is finding a way to get their Website to generate business for their company. Often times they have hired a Website Developer in Evansville, or an Southwest Indiana Advertising Firm to build a website for them, only to discover that either the Website Designer did not know what to do when it came to building a Online Marketing campaign, or the Advertising Firm could not deliver a Good Looking Website that was also an easy to manage website.

Do You want a Website that will help with your Small Business Branding?

McIntosh Designs has built several websites for small businesses and we are local Evansville Indiana Website Development firm that has experience in the Advertising world. We combine our experience with Easy to use Websites with our Advertisement Knowledge for the Indiana market so that we can provide small business websites that not only generate leads, but also helps boost your word of mouth campaign, if your interested then contact our Evansville Website Experts to see what they can do to turn your slacker website into a high performing Website.

Looking for your Turnkey solution to presenting your marketing message online?

What about your Marketing Message, how can you translate your print or tv marketing to work well on the internet. Few Evansville Advertising firms are capable of building a strong print or Television Advertising Campaign that also performs well on the Internet. Doing that requires someone who has grown up in the age of the Internet, but also has exposure to how the Southwest Indiana Marketing Firms operate.

Want to build a Complete Marketing Campaign?

Bringing these two things to the table McIntosh Designs has the ability to take your print, tv, or radio campaigns and build search engine optimization, website marketing, and Social Media campaigns that all work together so that you can track your results, and see more advertising roi for what you spend. Contact our Search engine optimization experts today; before you think about spending money on those Ad Farm websites, your company is unique, your online presence needs to be just as unique.

Can your Website scale without causing your I.T. department to panic?

We have all experienced it, right after that new product we cant wait for goes on sale online, the website dies, errors out, or just does not exist any more. Do you think your website can handle millions of users at one time, what will your store do? What will your I.T. department say? Companies have lost Billions of dollars because of a website crashing at the same time a product launched. Your product whether it is physical, a music download, or just a article all needs and deserves to have an Infrastructure that can be scaled to handle large demands that may come right before a launch. Is this something you want? Is this something you would rather just have work for you without all of the nail biting? If it is, then contact one of our Website Infrastructure specialists to get started in preparing your site for that big product launch.

Online Content management

It is sometimes one of the hardest things to do when you own a website, and one of the biggest causes in stress, anxiety, and loss of customers. That is making sure that you provide new, relevant content, that is not only factually true, but also is presenting you as the expert in your field that you are. Many of us have troubles making sure that we remember to use spell checker, and proofreading rules so that our articles and pages make sense to those who will be reading them. Publishing content that has spelling or grammatical errors can be embarrassing at the least, or at the worst if it is factually incorrect it could lead to a legal nightmare.

Controlling who publishes your content

McIntosh Designs can set in place a system that controls who can publish content to your site, flags rude or offensive comments, and can remove copyrighted material from your site. This is something both small and large businesses should be aware of when owning a site that allows anyone except the site owner to post to their site. If you have a forum, allow multiple people to write content for your site, or just need to put into place a good workflow for adding new content to your site, then Contact a Content Management Specialist today.

Just Keep It Local

Regardless of who you decide to use, we ask you to consider where your work will be performed.  It is true that a majority of Website Development can be done anywhere around the world.  In fact we often help other Evansville Advertising Firms provide services to companies that are half way across America, but one thing we will never do is ship work out of country.  We believe in supporting an American economy first, because it is what drives the world's economy.  Without it we would quickly be in major trouble.

Large Firms Outsource their Talent, instead you should Outsource your expense

We have all heard of why big businesses outsource their work to other countries, many claim that the expense to hire an American citezen is just too high, or the letigation expense is too much, but what they are really doing is Outsourcing the Talent to another country.  Without work, there cannot be advancement in technology for well over a Century America has been at the fore front of the technology race. We are now losing that race because we have outsourced all of the talent to other countries like Outsourcing to India, or Outsourcing to the Phillipines, I do not have anything personally against them, but believe that there should be more than enough work in their own country if they choose to develope it.