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DrupalCon DC 2009 – Videos, Slide and More

Posted by Tom On March - 4 - 2009
DrupalCon DC 2009

Thanks to the great folks helping put DrupalCon DC on right now. Less than 8 hours into DrupalCon DC 2009 and they already have 3 session video up. You folks rock!

I’ll work on compiling a list of the session videos below. Come back for updates.

DrupalCon DC 2009 – Drupal In The Newsroomdrupalcon
DrupalCon 2009 – Drupal In The Newsroom – Recorded by Robert Nelson Vance of proVanceTek LLC (http://provancetek.com/)

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Drupal 6 Custom Maintenance Pages

Posted by Tom On February - 4 - 2009

workinDo you follow the instructions for upgrading Drupal? If you do, you put your site into maintenance mode as part of the process. (I smile writing this because I haven’t always followed those instructions and I’m betting you haven’t always either.) It is the right thing to do though.

But that is only one reason your users might see the maintenance page. If your host has database problems, you could be showing your customers the default Drupal maintenance or offline page. Probably not the image you were looking for. This article will walk you through the process of creating custom maintenance/offline pages for your Drupal sites that will keep a profession look and feel, respecting your site design and style.

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Don’t Dump Drupal – It is Powerful

Posted by Tom On January - 27 - 2009

Fear of the Dark

I recently came across this blog post talking about someone’s decision to “dump” Drupal as a platform for a site idea they had. As I read the short post, I quickly found that I was shouting “don’t dump Drupal” in the back of my mind.

The author describes three reasons why Drupal didn’t work out for their use.

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