How to Optimize Views 2 More Links Anchor Texts
Posted: Wed 10/08/2008 by ramiroOne of the great improvements in Views 2 is the ability to create various page and block displays for one view. Block views can be linked to a page display when the More link option in the block's settings is enabled.
If there are one or more page displays set up in the view, the page to be linked can be chosen after clicking on the link next to the Page display option. See the screenshot below for an example:
Drupal.org Redesign Yahoo Pipe and Widget
Posted: Mon 09/08/2008 by ramiroAccording to Dries' State of Drupal 2008 presentation backed by a survey with 1367 participants the drupal.org redesign is a very important task for improving the user experience of the Drupal project as a whole.
In the current stage of the redesign process feedback from drupal.org users is essential. To participate the GDO Redesign group is a good starting point.
Avoiding Duplicate Title Tags on Pager Pages in Drupal
Posted: Wed 08/13/2008 by ramiroGoogle Webmaster Tools includes a tool called content analysis that you find in the Diagnostics section. The content analysis tool reported a suboptimal number of duplicate title tags and meta descriptions for some Drupal sites that I monitor with these tools.
Getting rid of duplicate title tags and meta descriptions caused by the pager is actually quite simple. When using the Meta Tags module with the setting ALL=INDEX,FOLLOW for Default robots meta tag: you can adjust the robots Meta tag in your theme, so that pages that contain the page parameter in the URL are not indexed using the following code snippet in the head section of your page.tpl.php template file.
Drupal at LinuxTag Berlin 2008
Posted: Wed 05/28/2008 by ramiroToday LinuxTag 2008 started in Berlin, Germany. LinuxTag is Europe's leading exhibition on Linux and Open Source software and will go on until Saturday (May 31, 2008) at Berlin's Messezentrum unter dem Funkturm.
There is a Drupal booth (no. 217) located in Halle 7.2a organized by the Drupal User Group Berlin. And it looks like that:
Drupal 6 XML Sitemap for Nodes
Posted: Fri 05/02/2008 by ramiroAfter upgrading to Drupal 6 I opted for a quick and dirty XML sitemap approach. Before I was using the XML Sitemap module which is currently available for Drupal 6 as a development snapshot or directly from CVS. The module offers settings for priority and change frequency. Moreover the module allows for adding taxonomy term and user URLs to the sitemap.
I only wanted nodes and the front page to appear in the sitemap's XML output without priority or change frequency information. Having the path and pathauto modules enabled, which ensure that every node gets a meaningful and search engine friendly URL, a simple database query joining two tables is enough to get the necessary data for all published nodes.
