Drupal

Tonight about twenty drupal users and developers gathered at PMG Direct headquarters in Columba, MD for what is believed to be the third Maryland Drupal Meetup. It was my first time, and I met with some of the group beforehand for dinner, which was organized by Carolyn, a developer with Takoma Park based drupal shop, Grand Junction Design.

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We recently started on a project and began work implementing the features when we were told that it needed to be based on Pressflow. After a small moment of panic at the thought of having to redo all of the work done thus far, Dave assured me that it was a simple drop-in to replace regular 'vanilla' Drupal core with Pressflow. Still, leaving nothing to chance, I wanted to see just what these differences were and how it would effect my current code base. Was it really that simple?

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We've started using @managingnews for ourselves on http://news.rapidwatersdev.com and we're finding the Channels feature quite useful! It's a new take on using taxonomy but it's not quite apparent how to actually use this feature without digging a little bit. So here's a quick screencast using Screenr on how to use Managing News' Channels feature.

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Search Engine Optimization comes in several colors, also known as hats, and flavors, let's call those implementations. On-site SEO implementation is taking what is currently on the site and tweaking it to be better read by search engines, or building that into the development of the site from the ground up. Off-site SEO implementation is usually done through building backlinks and general site popularity through viral content and other marketing concepts.

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