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netsperience 2.x
web development, web site design, seo and smo

drupal

Welcome to netsperience 2.x

This is the personal web site of Randall Goya aka decibel.places dba netsperience

I develop community, social publishing, semantic publishing, ecommerce and rich media Web 2.x web sites (beyond "Web 2.0"). I also optimize web sites for SEO and SMO. I build most of my projects with Drupal and Acquia Drupal.

Here you can view my professional portfolio, read my blog, listen to some tunes by me, or on the Jango Juke Box, purchase reliable and inexpensive web hosting, or IM me directly from the ...meebo me... widget. I'm also on Facebook & twitter & LinkedIn - View the netsperience company profile on LinkedIn.

Drupal Cheat Sheet Wallpaper Darker and Shifted Right via @smashingmag @quicklycode

Mon, 06/28/2010 - 9:37am — decibel.places

Smashing Magazine released cute and useful Drupal cheatsheet wallpaper, created by Giovanni Scala of Quickly Code, but I found it too difficult to see my desktop icons over it. My edit is darker and shifted right (1440x900 - other screen resolutions in original designs at Smashing Magazine)

Drupal Cheat Sheet Wallpaper adapted from Quickly Code

netsperience 2.x moves to Hot Drupal hosting

Mon, 06/07/2010 - 11:55am — decibel.places

netsperience 2.x has moved from Bluehost to

Hot Drupal web hosting, a product of Holistic Solutions Inc.

Hot Drupal web hosting

Hot Drupal is Drupal-centric hosting with great support, and includes ffmpeg (for video) and SSH. Bluehost did not have ffmpeg and when I signed up for SSH they told me I was not allowed to install my own binaries.

Another feature Hot Drupal provides is "Hybrid VPS" with fewer IP neighbors on each tiered hosting plan. netsperience 2.x is running noticeably faster now.

I have been hosting dev and client sites on Hot Drupal for a couple of years, and when I received an invoice from Bluehost for 24 months @ $7.95/mo I decided the time had come to move netsperience 2.x.

I hesitated mostly because I was afraid of problems moving my Gallery portfolio, a complicated app to install and configure. In fact I did have some problems, but Hot Drupal support helped me resolve my new configuration in a few hours.

Yes, I'm a Hot Drupal happy camper. If you contact Hot Drupal, tell Steve Brown I say, "Hi!"

Web Colorizer provides minutes of insane fun!

Sun, 05/16/2010 - 8:44pm — decibel.places

webcolorizer logo

Web Colorizer adjusts Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast, and R/G/B Colorizing in a WYSIWYG interface. Use Invert for more psychedelic effects.

The tool (in beta, with quick response to signups) then provides a live URL and a zipped file with all the processed images, CSS etc.

These samples were produced in less than 5 minutes.

netsperience 2.x

web colorizer netsperience 2.x

 Drupal.org

web colorizer drupal.org

Innovative Credit Consultants

 

Cinco de Mayo, Dries Buytaert in a sombrero etc.

Tue, 05/04/2010 - 10:48pm — decibel.places

As a 1/4 Mexican, I feel gifted with a birthday on Cinco de Mayo

(for you gringos, that's May 5th)

Even better to share a photo of Drupal creator and curator Dries Buytaert in a sombrero (while a student at Ghent University, where Drupal originated)

Dries Buytaert in a sombrero

via Forest Mars of MNN on groups.drupal.org NYC

unfortunately I will not be at the 5/5 Drupal meetup, my friends are throwing a surprise party and I am obliged in advance to be there

some birthday greetings

Happy Birthday DECIBEL from Xing

feliz aniversario from Mom

jQuery to the Rescue! Drupal warning: Illegal offset type in isset or empty in user.module

Fri, 04/30/2010 - 11:55pm — decibel.places

Call me old fashioned. I started using JavaScript in the 90s before jQuery was even an idea. Sure, I can troubleshoot jQuery, and it is used a lot in Drupal, but my first impulse is to write regular JavaScript, which still works too. I think jQuery is the best JS framework, I've worked with prototype.js, mootools etc. too.

But when I wanted to hide an obscure and possibly meaningless warning message on the user account edit page (so that new members would not get freaked and think they did something wrong) I struggled.

First I hacked the user.module and although I removed the warning I also gave everybody admin access, including people who are not even logged in - not a good idea.

So I used CSS to hide the warning messages on "body-page.user" which seemed to do the trick.

Then my client told me he was having trouble creating new accounts, and I realized that I hid ALL user module warnings including "User name xxxx already exists" so I was back with the ugly warning.

Finally, I decided to hide just the warning with the text in question. Sure, I could have done it with classic JavaScript, indexing through all the div elements and looking for the matching innerHTML text and hiding the div. I guess that would have been about 8 lines of code.

I decided to figger out the best jQuery method. I came up with one line of jQuery code to add to my theme template that did the trick:

<script type="text/javascript">$("div.messages:contains('Illegal offset type in isset or empty')").hide();</script>

(note: the .messages selector is crucial; without it, all divs that are parents of the warning are also hidden, effectively hiding the entire page!)

jQuery: write less, do morethanks, jQuery...

now about that PHP warning...

learn jQuery at W3Schools

New Drupal Content Type "payme" Named via Twitter

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 12:53pm — decibel.places

OP: Trying to name a #drupal content type that encompasses outgoing quotes, invoices and receipts. So far I've got accounts_document. Any ideas?

 

decibelplaces suggests name "payme" for nicksanta new Drupal content type on Twitter

 

My clincher: @nicksanta I'm serious - "document" seems redundant, how happy it would be to click on Create content > payme !

Got My Drupal Gardens Beta Code! YAY!

Wed, 02/24/2010 - 5:53pm — decibel.places

Grow Drupal Gardens

Drupal Gardens is a web-based tool to create Drupal 7 web sites. It is still in beta and I received my access code today to log in and start using the Drupal Gardens web site!

Welcome to Drupal Gardens Beta

Drupal 7 default content type "Article" chosen to engage the Joomla crowd?

Sun, 02/21/2010 - 2:39pm — decibel.places

Prior to Drupal 7, content writers often had to decide between a "Page" and a "Story" content type. Ok, it's not a blog or a forum post or an image... but which is it, Page or Story? I generally differentiated them by making the Page like a standard HTML page, clean, and the Story more like a blog post, with author metadata. The writer still says, "I have no idea what you're talking about, I just want to post some content, so which one should I use?"

Drupal 7 has simplified the decision by introducing a new default content type: the "Article" which should be familiar to Joomla users as the default post type in that CMS.

Makes sense. Drupal 7 and Drupal Gardens will probably blow Joomla out of the water, so might as well make it comfortable for Joomlaists to transition.

During an Acquia webinar about Drupal 7, I asked if "'Article' was specifically chosen as the default content type to make Drupal more friendly for Joomla users?" Moderator Lynne Capozzi tried to brush it off as a "rhetorical" question, but Drupal creator and curator Dries Buytaert answered that much thought had been given to it and "Article" was chosen as the best option. Excerpt follows:

View entire Acquia webinar about "Making Drupal 7 Simple to Use for Everyone"

Get Drupal 7 via Acquia       Get Drupal 7 from official Drupal.org project page

(Drupal 7 is in alpha release - for production sites use Drupal 6 instead)

Drupal vs Joomla at Top Notch Themes

Thu, 01/21/2010 - 4:18pm — decibel.places

Drupoal vs Joomla!from Top Notch Themes

I received an email ... [from] a consultant from IBM ... with a fascinating and detailed comparison of these early experiences with Drupal and Joomla.

I was allowed to post this (anonymously) here to our blog so the community(ies) at large can benefit from this great write-up.

Summary to Date

- Use Joomla if you want to get nice looking site up quickly and can deal with a slower system, rigid content categorization and limited design/configuration options.

- Use Drupal if you want high performance, scalability, good content management and significant design flexibility. But, be prepared to spend a lot of time/money to get the site to look professional.

Read more at Top Notch Themes

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