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Things to do with Drupal Views #1: a Random Stories block

Alfred Armstrong — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:43:27 +0000

The Drupal Views module is a terrific tool, if somewhat challenging to get to grips with. In this series of posts I’ll be providing instructions with accompanying video footage, showing how to accomplish some useful tasks with this module. In this first post, I show how to make a block with a list of 5 [...]

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Things to do with Drupal Views #1: a Random Stories block

Making an Intranet File Browser for Drupal or WordPress

Alfred Armstrong — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:58:39 +0000

I’ve recently worked on two projects that both asked for some code that would allow users to attach an intranet file (typically something like a Word document) to a post. There’s a few things that anyone trying to do the same will need to understand. Browser security and links to files The first thing is [...]

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Making an Intranet File Browser for Drupal or WordPress

Drupal as a Wiki

Alfred Armstrong — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:04:48 +0000

I recently had occasion to try out setting up Drupal as a Wiki. On the whole, I found it a positive experience with some minor niggles. Installation The first step was easy: download the Wiki installation profile and install it. I picked the Drupal 6 version even though it’s marked as unsupported, because once installed [...]

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Drupal as a Wiki

What is Web Development?

Alfred Armstrong — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:31:43 +0000

When I meet people for the first time, they often ask what I do. When I say I’m a web developer, they nod knowingly, but actually I’m sure that many of them have no idea what I’m on about, except that they really, really, don’t want me to explain it to them then and there. [...]

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What is Web Development?

Development work on Pixdaus.com

Creating a multilingual website using WordPress and WPML

Alfred Armstrong — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:53:37 +0000

How do you create a WordPress site in several different languages? We’ve been working on a new site recently which the client wants to appear in both English and French versions, so I needed to find a suitable plugin or plugins to make this possible. I’d previously heard good things about qTranslate so that was [...]

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Creating a multilingual website using WordPress and WPML

Tweet into Drupal: 3 ways to add Twitter updates to your site

Alfred Armstrong — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:44:51 +0000

Twitter is great, isn’t it? All those pithy thoughts you and your friends have on the bus or while watching TV can be instantly captured and sent to the world. But meantime your Drupal site is just sitting there quietly missing out on all the fun. It doesn’t have to be that way though: follow [...]

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Tweet into Drupal: 3 ways to add Twitter updates to your site

Backing up Tweets – now even easier and safer

Alfred Armstrong — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:03:51 +0000

We’ve updated the Twitter backup service Tweetake.com, created in partnership with Nikki Pilkington, to use Twitter’s safe sign-in protocol. Tweetake users no longer have to enter their usernames and passwords, and as a consequence the service is both easier to use and more secure. The “sign-in with Twitter” facility we have used is based on [...]

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Backing up Tweets – now even easier and safer

Moving your website to a new domain

Alfred Armstrong — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:22:36 +0000

Since we’ve just moved this site from one domain to another, I thought I’d write a quick few words about how we did it. Register and point the domain to your hosting. The hosting package we use (which we like so much we resell it), makes this an easy process. We bought the domain using [...]

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Moving your website to a new domain

Press release: Likemind is now Figure W

Alfred Armstrong — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:09:01 +0000

The press release about our change of name can be read on the following sites, all of which we would recommend as great services for spreading the word: UK Business Labs. Read: Likemind Web Services is now Figure W. Free Press Index. Read: Likemind Web Services is now Figure W. PRLog. Read: Likemind Web Services [...]

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Press release: Likemind is now Figure W

Bye, bye, Likemind …

Alfred Armstrong — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:24:33 +0000

We’ve changed our name! Likemind has become Figure W. Note the new logo and website URL. Along with the name change, you may notice some differences in the way we market ourselves, but we’ll still be providing the same high level of service and client satisfaction as in the past. If you have any comments [...]

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Bye, bye, Likemind …