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Migrating the Drupal way. Part II: saving those old URLs 2008-11-20 11:19:47 For the second part of my migration blog, I want to touch on the importance of maintaining URLs from your old site and demonstrate some examples of how to capture them in Drupal
. Search engine traffic and other referrals are invaluable when it comes to the success of a site. I've managed sites that have received upwards of 100,000 referrals a day from Google alone. This is not even to mention all Read more:Migrating
A hosted search service for Drupal 2008-11-18 05:58:07 Jay just announced Acquia's plans to get into the hosted search business. By doing so, we hope to provide Drupal
sites a (i) faster, (ii) more scalable search solution that (iii) can work across multiple sites, that (iv) can handle broader content, (v) that offers faceted navigation and more.
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Hosted Solr site search for Drupal is on the way 2008-11-18 02:32:29 The search technology area is highly important to people with websites. As a result, I've spent serious time looking at it. Several things have come from this time spent:
The important thing: We'll soon be adding "hosted site search" capabilities to the Acquia Network for our subscribers. More about this below.
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The S-Files: "Why can't a user edit content?" 2008-11-14 14:27:02 A few days ago a user emailed with a problem about giving users the ability to edit content. The problem started with a small site that had been added to over time. Now that there were a few more pages to maintain the webmaster wanted to give access to other users to manage a few pages.
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Optimizing mySQL: Temp Tables on Disk 2008-11-14 09:37:36 I wrote this back in June when I was knee deep in attempting to optimize a Drupal 5 website that was receiving a lot of traffic and showing very poor performance. This article is incomplete and I don't really come up with any solid solutions here, but thought this may be of some help nonetheless.
Performance of any site is a concern when you start getting actual traffic. Drupal performance can be Read more:Tables
The freemium business model: giving away pays 2008-11-13 03:43:48 I've recently been thinking a lot about the freemium model
.htm">business model
. For those unfamiliar with the freemium business model, it was first articulated by venture capitalist Fred Wilson in 2006:
"Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc., then offer premium
The S-Files: "Help I deleted my theme" 2008-11-12 15:57:44 Tech Support Case Studies
One of the core services that Acquia offers is support for people building sites with Drupal. "The S-Files" are stories about the day-to-day life of our support team. Each one contains a nugget of Drupal knowledge that helped a customer succeed with Drupal. Enjoy!
"Hello, I installed a new theme on my site but I didn't like it. So I deleted it. Now I can't log into my sit
Acquia Upgrade Team: Mission Copenhagen 2008-11-12 12:40:28 Acquia documentation agent Jam* and I will be heading to Denmark this weekend where we'll be geeking out with Scandanavian Drupallers at the first ever DrupalCamp Copenhagen
. You will recognize us by our Acquia shirts and our inability to speak Danish. Our mission is to help you upgrade your Drupal 4 or 5 sites to Drupal 6.
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Drupal in the formative stages of adding RDF(a) for Semantic Web 2008-11-12 12:30:30 There has been a lot of hand waving about the semantic web, RDF, and Drupal
. This is good, and it is important for there to be excitement about the possibilities that this opens to us. Now the first concrete plans are being laid and the first patches are being written and evaluated.
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Drupal CMS Founder, Dries Buytaert Interview with CMS Critic 2008-10-23 08:48:38 We were very pleased to have a chance to interview Dries
Buytaert, founder of the legendary Drupal
content management system. He shares his thoughts on its success, future and how it came to be in this intriguing and indepth discussion. We had so many questions, that we are only publishing part one while he works on the second half. Here you go.
CC: Thank you for taking the time to speak with us t Read more:Critic
The new kid on the Drop 2008-10-10 10:07:50 This site has been running Drupal 5 for over a year now, even though Drupal 6 has been available since February. I kept meaning to update it, but never got around to it. Of course, then along came Acquia and a pressing need to try out the new kid on the block (for purely professional reasons, of course). So, armed with proper backup tools and a fast Internet connection, I set about to sacrifice my
Acquia Drupal 2008-10-01 15:48:56 Yesterday Acquia, the commercial open source company started last December to serve the Drupal
community, announced they are “now open for business!” Specifically, Acquia announced the availability of:
Acquia Drupal – a distribution of the popular content management system (previously code named “Carbon”) which provides core Drupal functionality as well as support for over thirty additi
Acquia: Commercially supported Drupal 2008-09-30 21:11:59 When it comes to choosing a content management system (CMS), the open-source Drupal
is often a great choice for large or content-rich sites, because it scales well, supports multiple authors and is thoroughly customizable. The downside of all of this power is that for new users especially, the learning curve can be pretty steep. Although Drupal 6 was a huge step forward in overall usability, from
Acquia Launches Commercial Drupal Distribution, Support Network 2008-09-30 12:03:44 Acquia today accomplished their goal of releasing a commercially supported version of the open source content management system Drupal
. At the same time, they've launched the Acquia Network, a service that offers site management tools and various subscription-base levels of support for anyone running Drupal 6.
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Acquia Debuts Drupal for Free 2008-09-30 09:28:57 Acquia has announced the availability of Acquia Drupal
, a free and commercially supported distribution of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system. They also unveiled the Acquia Network, which offers subscription-based access to technical support and remote network services that simplify the development and operation of Drupal Web sites. Entry level subscriptions to the Acquia Netwo
Acquia backs Drupal for enterprise adoption 2008-09-30 09:17:14 Drupal has always been a great open-source web content management system. Forrester called it one of the two open-source content management systems to consider. Its biggest deficiency was arguably a lack of enterprise
-class support and polish to support the project.
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