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Tutorial on how to set up and install Piwik Piwik is an open source easy to use web analytical tool which provides stats in real time and all the other bells and whistles of analytical reporting. The three key CMS players WordPress, Drupal and Joomla have plugins/module that get your site up and running in [...]

Avoid any content duplication and ensure Google opts for a particular version of your site when indexing – fix up your redirects to choose either http://yourdomain.com or http://www.yourdomain.com by putting in a 301 redirect. There is a possibility that failing to this may create duplicate content and be penalised by the Googler You can get [...]

Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 7 version on Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Drupal is a quality CMS application and is as simple or complex as your needs vary, it runs on the same foundations that Mac OS X Lion or Snow Leopard provides. This tutorial assumes a certain degree of comfort in [...]

Drupal 7 administration menu is quite a change from previous versions, in comes the administrative overlay which is like a partial transparent layer over the existing site. This is a subjective thing however I prefer to turn this off  and have the backend looking opaque and to have a sense that it is a separate [...]

For new comments made by users in Drupal by default the only way to approve or delete new comments for moderation in is to log on and check on to the site directly. New comments are not alerted to an authenticated user. By setting up an action and trigger when a new comment is posted you [...]

Fastest Way to install the latest Drupal 6 version on Mac OS X This assumes the web sharing method is the standard OS X user web sharing service as shared from  ~/Sites, the shared drupal directory will be called “drupal“. The mysql database is called drupal and the mysql user is root, the password for [...]

This is done on a Drupal 6 site, there are easier ways but I couldn’t touch the site by adding any other modules. First thing to do is to disable clean URLs in the live site -  » Administer » Configuration »Clean URLs, disable and save. If you have failed to do this step there are some troubleshooting tips [...]