Long Time, No See
Well, it has been a long time since I posted an entry here. I had been working feverishly on two major web designs -- one which is finished and the other is almost finished. So I literally forgot about this blog.
In the meantime, I became an ubercart, event, nodeprofile, panel, views and og aficionado! At the same time, however, I seemed to have missed the memo to upgrade anything to drupal 6.
Yeah, I pretty much gave up upgrading anything. It became too time consuming.
I will consider upgrading my 5.x sites to 6 when and if I suddenly get some time and ... some motivation. The main problem is that I sort of burned myself out on the big projects.
I am curious. How do you motivate yourself to upgrade sites that are working just fine, thank you very much?
DC Drupal Lab Video Aug 30
I gave a presentation on my newest site (www.meditatelive.com) at our local DC meetup. I come on at about 54 minutes in, I am the effervescent black woman in glasses!
Drupal White Screen of Death
Another blank screen troubleshooting tip per torgosPizza on ubercart.org:
"... to troubleshoot your white screen problem, put this into the top of your index.php:
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);
That'll show you any fatal errors (which Drupal chokes on). It's helped me tons."
I think this is a wonderful tip, so I am sharing it here.
Step up to Web 2.0!
What is Web 2.0?
It is the next phase of the world wide web.
In the beginning, there was HTML.
In the mid-nineties, Tim Berners-Lee crafted a new markup language by extracting a subset from an older markup language and boom! The Web was born.
Web technology continued to improve over the next decade, producing a whole slew of applications with each having their own set of bells and whistles. Then in 2004, ten years after the birth of the web, another Tim, Tim O'Reilly, declared the birth of Web 2.0.
With all the new technologies and seemingly endless array of options facing web users, Web 2.0 in many ways goes back to the basics in terms of usability and scalability.
In Web 2.0, no longer do you have to handcraft each web page, or know a programming language to have a web site, you do not even need a web guru to run your web site. In Web 2.0, you enter the world of content management systems(CMS), search engine optimization (SEO), web services such as RSS and Amazon, web automation such as Google sitemaps, and countless other improvements.
What does this mean for web site owners?
