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I'm always on a lookout for a better way to manage my blog post and manage the content easier.  I've been seeing off and on now on a couple sites talking about using Google Docs to write your blog posts.   Which I'm like, the word processor works pretty well so I'm going to be giving it a shot here for the next few weeks to see how I like using it over what I'm currently using and not completely happy with in Qumana.   The thing I like about Qumana is that it will sync all your posts with the editor and you can edit the posts quite easily if you want.   The one thing I hate about Qumana is the

I’ve always been a huge fan of Windows Live Writer when I was previously using Wordpress to write my posts. It’s always been a pretty great utility to use to streamline your writing and making it easier and more accessible to write your content.  The default installation of Drupal 6.12 the Blog API does not work correctly with Windows Live Writer and I was just accepting the fact that I couldn’t use it for the time being until it was fixed.  I stumbled on the WLW BlogAPI module that has corrected this isssue for me which I’m very grateful.

Today is a huge day in the world of web development and database development as Oracle has acquired Sun Microsystems.  The reason that this is such a huge deal is that Sun holds a great deal of high value cards when it comes to what is being leveraged on the web today such as MySQL and Java are the largest developments coming out of the Sun house.  Right behind  those two technologies is the Microsoft Office alternative that I personally enjoy using and has became a standard for most Linux users and that is OpenOffice, and the enterprise datacenter server operating system that put Sun Microsystems on the map Solaris.  There are also some very influential research coming out of Sun Microsystems and the most widely known and adopted technology is their ZFS file system that FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and Apple are leveraging as a

Everyone that is working on a website and/or blog is always trying to stay on top of the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) trends of the month.  From managing and working with websites that range from light traffic (sub 1k vistors/day) to high traffic sites (10k + vistors/day) I've found some fairly decent resources that help me along the way.

I've been wanting to discuss some of the utilities that I have been using here as of late and give a little feed back on them.  Featured in this particular article is DestroyTwitter an Adobe Air twitter client that rivals twirl and is much cleaner to work with than twirl.  I will also be discussing some of the core Drupal modules that I have found to be almost essential in every Drupal site that I have been working on recently.  NovaNET-WEB v10 Beta 3 was released not too long ago and I will be doing a short synopsis of the overall state of the server and client.   Lastly I will be discussing a utility that has basically made my sysadmin life 100% easier since implementing and that is haproxy

I'm going to get right into the nitty gritty on making you're Drupal installation more SEO Friendly with the intent of increasing traffic and page rank!

1. Pathauto

This module is going to automatically generate a SEO Friendly alias for your content that you are creating.  This module is dependant on Token so you will need to make sure you have that module loaded first before enabling Pathauto

Download PathAuto  ||  Download Token

Make sure to read the documentation for Pathauto if you already have content populated on your site