As I had been occupied most of my time by this great open source CMS lately, I would to share my experiences withyou. If you use, you will learned to value drupal at least for its vast amount of extremly useful modules, flexible user management and easy-to-handle content editors.
As basic requirements one needs a hosting account which has php (version 5.2 or higher) and mysql installed. Download the latest versions here, I’d recommend to choose version 6.x as most of the modules and themes are not available for 7.x, which is still in development status, but will come up with neat features.
On first hand you will have to set up a mysql database, no worries you will just have to specify just the database name, a username and a password! Now you upload the drupal core file into a folder in your webspace. After doing so you reach your drupal installation via www.yourdomain.com/[drupal installation folder]/install.php .
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Ok, Twitter has had to fight many battles, the hardest one still is the fail whale – and spammers.
I heard about Michael Jackson beeing delivered to the hospital due to twitter.com was off, so my good ol’ TV attracted my attention, there I heard the news…
Nevertheless these troubles are just a sign of the incredible success twitter.com is facing at the moment. Establishing as an important news source, marketing tool or social play ground the service it self has to evolve…
Now they have taken the first step, aplusk beeing the first tweeter to break the 1,000,000 followers barrier, now having 2,530,98, the twitter coders finally smoothed up the user management. You can choose between a list view and a expanded view showing the last Tweet, additionally there is a option menue offering the following activities: mention the twitter user, send a direct message, unfollow and block user.
But it still ain’t a big hit, but think it looks (a little bit) sexier now. There still are no batch operations, which would be an evident feature for the the most people…
There is still a lot to do in the twitland backend – execpt locking up the fail whale securely…
Here’s an attempt to build up a little list of the most important social media sites.
As it is far from being complete, it will be expanded from time to time…
Blogging
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Author: mr-mojo-risin
- Tags: bebo, blogcatalog, Blogger, brightkite, care2, del.icio.us, digg, diigo, entrecard, facebook, flickr, friendfeed, goodreads, googlereader, ilike, joost, last.fm, lijit, linkedin, livejournal, media, mybloglog, orkut, photobucket, picasa, reddit, seesmic, shelfari, sites, social, stumbleupon, twitter, Wordpress, xing, yahoo, youtube
Looking for informations, advices, strategies or hints guiding you on your paths through the social media djungle?
Here you’ll find a composition of free ebooks that might be helpful on your efforts to successfully use social marketing mechanisms for building a brand, attract traffic or gain significance on a certain topic.
So these Links will keep you busy for a while…
Instructions and sum ups
The Art of Listening and Engagement Through Social Media
Brian Solis about new tools and philosophies, how to effectively listen and engage with customers and in turn, cultivate a more significant community, enhance your brand and build relationships.
Social Media and Social Networking Starting Points
Social Media expert Chris Brogan gives you starting points how to inroduce your organization into social media and social networking
What is Social Media?
“a short, sweet summary of the phenomenon called social media”
The Essential Guide to Social Media
A sum up of some essential guidelines, written by Brian Solis
The Art and Science of Social Media and Community Relations
Interesting example of a company entering the realm of social media communities
Social Media Marketing Kit
Tips and tricks for the survival in the social mediasphere, plus a video Webinar
The Zen of Blogging
Really amusing story about a guys efforts to dive into the higher spheres of blogging – with a slight wink of an eye
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Author: mr-mojo-risin
- Tags: blogging, blogs, ebooks, free, hints, Marketing, seo, social media, study, tips, tricks, web 2.0
I searched for free to use web 2.0 icons of social media sites, but I did not find anything nice except some stock icons.
So I’ve made my own ones and I like to share them with you!
Feel free to use, modify and integrate them on your blog or website.
There is no need to link back, if you’d like to do so anyway, it is appreciated.
Here’s the download for the .psd containing templates for 256×256 pixel buttons and a 40×40 pixels iconset:
Social Media Icon Set
Social Media Icons (PSD)
Have fun folks!
Collection of sites for help and inspiration:
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Create a Mac style CSS Dock Menu
Really nice tutorial for creating a cool and fancy navigation using CSS and a Jquery Javascript library. Comes as complete Download, including a icon set.
- How to: CSS large Background
Here you’ll find instructions how to integrate a large image as webpage background properly.
- Blurry Background Effect
A very nice and eye teasing visual effect, unfortunately not working for Internet Explorer 6.
- 12 Useful Web Tools for Designers
Several neat tools making a webdesigners daily work less miserable, a color schemer, tools for creating templates, favicons, background patterns or fonts.
- Creating scalable Layouts
As the design of a site is confronted with a huge range of completly different screen resolutions, it should be pretty flexible. Should. Here’s ecplain how to achieve that.
- Massive collection of CSS hints
Ok, this might be quite an old post, but it’s still very useful and just through it’s coverage and useful tricks, all the techniques are great helpers.
Afraid of evil extra terrestrian parasites? Time to get equipped with the same awesome alien species extinction device like Ripley (Sigurney Weaver) in Aliens:
The M41-A
With is fully functional hero models that fired 45 cal. blanks, and blank 12 guage shot gun rounds, to the ultra-slick O.D. green shrounds, this prop is the rare weapon that seemed it could actually do what it appeared to do in the movie! Shoot! This ain’t no ray gun, baby!
Here you’ll find a really neat how-to, so you soon might call yourself a proud owner of this instant classic!
Made from three real world weapons, the M41-A even has a cool sounding name. The World War II vintage M1A1 Thompson makes up the bulk of the weapon, and the Remington 870 shotgun is the guts for the “grenade launcher”. Carefully hidden inside a SPAS-12 heat shield cage and pump handle. The filming hero prop was made with a metal shroud, and is truly a work of art.
In case you are a wanna-be Imperial Stormtrooper, this make-your-own-blaster-how-to definitely will make you happy.
Via TechEBlog.com
Creating buttons for the navigation bar of your website might mutate into a pretty mess, but it shouldn’t. The most simple (fully graphical) solution, creating two images for every menue item, definetly won’t challenge your brains, but will cause headaches, if you intend to change a wording or even integrate more than one language.
The following method provides a pretty simple, easily edible, fully dynamic and completely cross browser functional way to create a cool and stylish navigation using only two graphics, text and simple CSS.
View a plain demo here.
So here we go:
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Author: mr-mojo-risin
- Tags: background, chrome, cross browser, css, div, firefox, html, ie 6, ie 7, mouse, mouseover, opera, over, stylesheet, tutorial
