Men’s Group: Exploring the Inner Lives of Men
This is the treatment for a reality television series I invented called ‘Men’s Group: Exploring the Inner Lives of Men’. I haven’t been able to get it to the eyes of a studio executive. I have no idea...
View ArticleYour First Week as an Online Instructor and the Three Types of Online Students
On Thursday, January 20th the spring semester for classes at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks began, and with that I activated my online courses so my students – enrolled through the banner system –...
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How to Setup Elysia Cron for Drupal 7 on a Bluehost Shared Hosting Account
The topic of the day is using Elysia Cron on a Bluehost shared hosting account with Drupal 7. It’s sometimes important not to use the basic Drupal cron feature however because of two problems it...
View ArticleAdding a Back Button that Preserves State in your Views-Based Search in Drupal 7
Pfew. I think the title says it all. This post is about a very specific thing. It’s actually not too complicated but it’s a useful thing to be able to do, this won’t be a long post. Here’s what we’ll...
View ArticleSetting up SSL on a Shared Hosting Drupal 7 Site
In this article I’m going to show you how to setup SSL for Drupal 7 on a shared hosting web server. My provider is Bluehost, so my directions are specific to them, but should be adaptable to most...
View ArticleImproving Drupal 7 Site Performance
In this article I’ll show you some things I did to optimize the performance for my Drupal 7 website on a Bluehost-powered shared hosting solution. I explored this issue pretty deeply so I’m going to...
View ArticleCreating a Search Interface in Drupal 7 with Views
In this post I’m going to show you how to setup a powerful search interface in Drupal 7 using Views. The search will include a text box for free-form searches as well as a variety of exposed filters...
View ArticleCreating an AWS Drupal Site with LAMP and PHPMyAdmin
I was at first leery about this project. I’m a long-time Windows user who has been aching to move on. This is just the first step. After this I’m building my own machine and installing Ubuntu as my...
View ArticleForcing the Footer to the Bottom of Every Page in Drupal 7 Using Zen Theme
It took me a few days to figure this one out. I’d like to share my new-found wisdom with you, in the hopes that you don’t make the same mistakes I did. In this article I’m going to show you how to...
View ArticleAdding a ‘Featured Block’ to your Drupal 7 Home Page
What I’m going to do here is go over, briefly, how to add a block to the home page of your site with ONE piece of featured content. Assumptions First, we’ll assume you have nodes you’d like to feature...
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