Blogs on Will Hall Online

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Presented at DrupalCambs March 2012.

Presented at Drupal Science Camp January 2012 in Cambridge.

Following up on my previous post about collapsible fieldsets in drupal 7 nodes I recently wanted to just add some jQuery UI tabs to another node, and taking inspiration from my previous post about collapsible fieldsets in Drupal 7 nodes, made a little few…

After struggling with various adoptions for getting collapsible fieldsets to work within nodes for Drupal 7 I came across a final solution.

So, it has been a while since I last blogged, probably because I have had a lot of work on recently, which certainly isn’t something to complain about.

Well this post has been a long time coming.

Although the internet and websites are brilliant ways of finding information, there are a few unfortunate limitations (currently).

Post migration data clean up, basically, most of the time when you develop a site you do it either under the default site of Drupal (sites/$new_url) or you do it under a different site (mynewsite.willhallonline.co.uk) with the intention of moving it to its

There are a number of things that Drupal and Ubercart does out of the box that are brilliant.

So, if you have missed it, Drupal 7 is stable (it has been since the start of January), and this means that more and more people are going to be looking at Drupal 7 both now an in the future to work as their content management system.

So, you have a kicking Drupal Ubercart site but you don’t like the way that the shopping cart block works.

After the recent period of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on sites which appear to have been linked to Wikileaks; PayPal, Mastercard, Amazon etc.

At last nights DrupalCambs Meetup, a discussion arose about why to use something, be it computer-based or otherwise.

I had a whale of a time trying to get some data posted onto Google Base, to enable the shop to sell items from Google Products.

I have been reading recently about developers giving realistic timescales to deliver projects in.

Learning is something that all of us probably do all of the time, both consciously (by reading newspapers/books/adverts/BBC website) and subconsciously(from surroundings etc.).

I recently presented at the NetSquaredCamb Meetup group.

Getting in the right server for your business; one that will be capable of managing all of your requests and give you space to grow without costing the earth or having a facebook like amount of servers is a tricky bit of business.

Drupal as a massive extensible CMS has a plethora of useful and frankly fantastic modules.

Choosing the right server for your drupal site can be a difficult process.

After presenting on ‘Migration to Drupal’ on Monday 12th April at DrupalCambs, had a few good chats about the nature of the Drupal database and associated points.

Recently I have been reading a lot more about NoSQL databases, specifically MongoDB and CouchDB, ad how 2010 will be the year of NoSql.

The migration of OsCommerce user to Drupal user can be a troublesome one, largely due to the password storage within OsCommerce.

Following the uploading of products to one product database within phpmyadmin/mysql root, you will now have a Drupal database with a new table named ‘products’ within it.

The difficult thing that appears with moving the products using the migrate moduel appears to be the inability to put multiple tables into one table.

The process of migrating Oscommerce to Drupal Ubercart, does involve a few processes, however, the advantages are numerous.

I have been reading a bit recently about how speed is going to become very relevent in search engines results.

I was recently asked the question of how applicable Drupal/Joomla are for a large site.

Just been hacking away at this to get the idea across of migrating and validating data from one database into the Drupal core (Drupal 6).

Migrating from one structure/site to another can be a complex process.

Obviously, the question as to why people are using it is one that can be prompted with a number of answers, yet I will put my few points down: The backend/administration is understandable This can be a big problem, especially when using CMS for no IT prof…

I have been looking at a way of inputting content into drupal but falsifying the timestamp to show it as content created years ago.

Getting started with sitemaps for SEO and discoverability.

With regards to Joomla essential, much of what you need to do content writing and suchlike is alread built in.