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New Home for a Lonely Site

Wed, 06/09/2010 - 08:04 — admin

Well, my two years with hosting service IPower are up. I decided not to renew as their servers move pretty slow.

So I moved to ANHosting, recommended by Blamcast.net, which is where I hosted my mother-in-law's website, Creative Benefit Strategies.

I have to say, their servers are considerably faster. I hope you agree.

Of course, since I'm pretty much the only one who comes to this site, I guess the improvement will have little impact.

Site Improvement: WYSIWYG

Sat, 01/31/2009 - 16:38 — admin

I've installed the FCKEDITOR module that allows you to do what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing -- basically, you can add bold, italics, tables, make stuff headings and the like when making pages or adding blog entries.

There you go. One more thing that no one will use.

Site Improvement: Paths That Make Sense

Wed, 12/10/2008 - 08:44 — admin

As a second consequence of working on Drupal at the day job, site requirements pushed me into fixing up the URLs of the various pages on the site. In fact, I ended up finding a module for Drupal that will make the URLs fancy automagically.

It's called the Pathauto module -- change the PATH AUTOmatically.

Here's what it did. Here's a typical URL from the site:

http://parkspages.com/node/3

Doesn't tell you anything, does it?

Here's how Pathauto changes it and makes it much more useful:

http://parkspages.com/doug

Here's a couple more:

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Time for a Tune Up

Thu, 11/27/2008 - 09:46 — admin

Time for a tune up.
 
So, I was working on Drupal (the Content Management System used on ParksPages) for work and realized that it's dog slow. That's one of the reasons my boss was hesitant to switch to it from the Perl script we're currently using to generate our web pages.
 
Now, I thought that PPages was slow because our host was slow. Turns out it's slow for a couple of reasons unrelated to that. Basically, two things: cache and theme. The underlying issue is that Drupal generates web pages on the fly, pulling from the database.
 
Cache simply saves a copy of the web page so that when a user comes to it, it can just spit it out without having to create it from the database and re-draw it.
 

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