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Dropping IE6 Support

CK Ng — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:04:26 +0000

As of August 1st, 2010, forDrupal will pull all support on Internet Explorer 6. forDrupal will no longer be creating themes that support IE6.

GPL license coverage

CK Ng — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:21:47 +0000

Following the debate of Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg over GPL theme. We would like to take the opportunity to clarify our theme licensing to avoid any confusion.

Drupal is an open source software covered under GPL (ver. 2), all derivative works based on Drupal are GPL as well. That means portion of our codes that are derivative of Drupal such as theme settings and template files (basically everything ending with .php or .inc) are covered by GPL and may be freely distributed.

The “look and feel” of forDrupal themes which includes files not dependent on Drupal, typically images, javascript and CSS are not subject to the GPL and are the intellectual property of forDrupal and licensed to you upon purchase via our website.

Setting up WYSIWYG editor

CK Ng — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:55:00 +0000

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, or a client-side editors (a.k.a. WYSIWYG editors) for editing content. Here is a simple step by step installation to get you up and running with WYSIWYG editor and make your end users happy. And if you owned a forDrupal themes, we have included goodies to use with WYSIWYG editor just for you.

Ubuntu Production Setup on VPS/Server for Drupal - Part 2

CK Ng — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:27:16 +0000

This is part 2 of the setup, where we concentrate on making the server production ready. Part 1 focus on the basic server setup to get Drupal running, you can find Part 1 here.

Performance

Opcode cache helps speed up your PHP considerably. We are using APC here, there are other alternatives such as XCache, eAccelerator, Zend Optimizer, etc.

Install APC Opcode

This will install APC 3.0.18-1

# aptitude install php-apc

Ubuntu Production Setup on VPS/Server for Drupal - Part 1

CK Ng — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:42:03 +0000

We've moved forDrupal to Linode VPS to serve you better. Since we just setup a server over there, we thought it would be nice to share it with you the process and served as a note for ourselves.

The following steps are conducted under Ubuntu 8.10 on a VPS. However it should be the same for newer version of Ubuntu or if you are setting up a dedicated server or a virtual machine.

Update: Linode just released Ubuntu 9.04 today, the steps here should be the same.

slow page load

CK Ng — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:44:56 +0000

Thanks for everyone that informed us that the site is slow. We are working with the hosting company to try to solve the problem. Have tried transferred to a new server but seems like the problem is more to international bandwidth than server.

We are investigating other hosting solution and will be moving again to serve you better.

10 backend modules you may've missed

CK Ng — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:14:26 +0000

There are a number of useful Drupal modules quietly working hard at the backend on websites around the globe. They usually come without any visible UI to the end user. You should get to know about them. In alphabetically order:

Backup and Migrate
Simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your Drupal database or migrating data from one Drupal site to another, with automatic scheduled backups.
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platino is here!

CK Ng — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:39:55 +0000

We're adding the first community theme to our themes collection - Platino.

Platino is a community centric theme, simple yet customizable, and appealing to community users. Although it is designed from ground up to be community based, it is an equally able theme for corporate, brochure, or personal site.

developer license

CK Ng — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:54:39 +0000

Good news to designer and developer who wishes to use forDrupal themes for client projects can now utilize the new Developer License to save cost and time.

The developer license entitles you to use the theme on as many sites as you wish at any given time. You may install the theme on many sites, including client sites. However, you may not resell or redistribute the theme in any way.

One Time Usage License permits you to use the same theme for different sites under the same domain, e.g.:

www.your-drupal-site.com

block highlights

CK Ng — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:01:15 +0000

forDrupal's themes have a range of highlights styles to choose from to further enhance your content presentation. Highlights are highly suitable for custom block region.

Method 1

To use the highlights, you have to know basic HTML on applying classes to tags. A typical way is

<div class="highlight-blue"> … your content … </div>

You may need to change the input format depending on your configuration. "Full HTML" input format should always work.