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Google’s PageRank algorithm is a ubiquitous SEO feature that has been around for years. Names after Google founder Larry Page, PageRank was established as a way to measure the “importance” of a website…
Cpanel’s Mailman mailing list software is not all that bad for an open-source application. It provides quite a bit of flexibility when it comes to managing and administering your mailing list and its subscribers. The glaring problem? There is no easy way to export your list of subscribers! Here’s how to do it…
HTML escape character lists often include characters between 128 and 159 – the problem is that these are Microsoft specific, and are reserved for control characters in the standard Internet character sets. In HTML they are undefined, and in XHTML they are completely invalid. Read on for a list of valid HTML escape characters you should use….
We give you PHP and ASP send email scripts (with SMTP authentication), which you can use to send email from another email address. This is useful for unsubscribing from those pesky email newsletters to which you are subscribed with an alias (forwarding address), and must reply to with an email from the address that is subscribed to the newsletter…
Seeing the same exact email two or three times instead of only once? This is a common issue when your mail client (ie. Outlook) is setup to leave copies of your mail on the server…
Protecting Drupal data is slightly more complicated than a locally stored, static-file website, since all the data is stored in a database. Therefore the key to backing up your data is to backup the database. Here I outline a process that works for me. I do not make any guarantees as to the correctness of this information nor will I be held responsible for any problems you encounter as a result of its use.
And is the text showing up in a strange looking font with lots of bold? This, and other differences in email appearance, can occur if you accidentally change the display setting of emails. There’s a few settings that could have caused this. We’ll list the most common based on the specific issue you’re experiencing…
CMS stands for Content Management System. A CMS lets you update and manage your website without needing a wealth of technical know-how. The open source community is a software community of developers that contribute their time freely to developing software for everyone. We take a look at the best open source CMS options out there…
If you’ve used Drupal before, you’ve no doubt come across the event module, which has been offered as an add-on Drupal since the early stages of Drupal. It provides basic event functionality, and a separate event repeat module can be used to create repeating events. The problem with the event module is that the code is relatively unstable, there are numerous versions out there that all use a different code base, and in general, the module is losing support. We show you how to use the CCK, Date, Calendar, and Views module to create the best event management system in Drupal…
What is caching? A cache is a repository that saves a static version of a page, and loads it up when a user requests it. Websites, as well as browsers, use caching to reduce page load times and increase performance…
