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An often unsung advantage that Drush can give you is the ability to quickly sync your Drupal installations between multiple environments.
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One of main draws to Drush is the library's ability to make developer lives easier. There are two simple commands that work using Drush aliases that can help sync database and files between multiple Drupal instances. First we'll go over setting up an alias file for Drush. After that, we'll document the usage of Drush's sql-sync and rsync commands.
Create a file to store your aliases that is readable by Drush.
If it does not exist already, create a .drush folder in your home directory.
$ mkdir ~/.drush...
Creating a Multilingual Site With Drupal
Drupal is an incredibly robust CMS without limits that is being improved and expanded upon daily. Having a content management system allows you to save time on development and spend more time creating valuable content for your users. Using a CMS allows you to allocate your time and money more efficiently. The majority of Drupal websites, like any other sites, currently are built in the English language. Drupal however has the flexibility that allows it to create...
Drupal and the Mobile Revolution
In today's society it has become the everyday norm for people to carry multiple electronic devices that are internet "ready". Now, more then ever, it has become important for companies to not only develop a more engaging presence on the internet but to have that strategy include technologies to display their products on mobile devices. Developers are starting to take note to the trend of consumers beginning to make more and more purchases from their mobile devices, not desktops or even laptops. The challenge to...
Drupal and SEO
The appearance of your web properties provides the very first impression of your business and brand to new visitors. This impression can generate leads, bring in new business, and promote word-of-mouth referrals as well as brand loyalty. The only problem is the fact that a good looking site alone will not automatically bring you visitors. You need to be sitting on the first page of the search engines to get any type of targeted traffic. This is exactly why web designers and marketing professionals use search optimization. Specifically,...
Drupal's Flexibility
Some of the biggest brands in the world are using Drupal, and the numbers seem to be increasing on a weekly basis. There's no denying that the simple CMS has come a long way over the years. Many top websites have jumped on board with Drupal recently including ING, IKEA, and even Twitter's developer page. Drupal is most commonly known for its dominance and flexibility in the ecommerce realm, but it is not limited to only ecommerce sites. Seeing so many sites jump on board with Drupal is a sure sign of its usefulness and age. If...
Drupal: The Perfect CMS?
There are many reasons that Drupal is the perfect platform for startups. There might be endless reasons. Drupal truly offers a perfect environment for a new startup to start with and eventually scale with as the company grows. Because Drupal is open source, the opportunities that are possible are only limited by the imagination of the developer.
Navigation is a key strength in Drupal. Even as a complete novice, you will be able to understand the dashboard at a functional...
Google's Gone Mobile
Earlier last month, Google had announced that they have added a smart phone user agent to their existing feature phone user agent. This means that the Googlebot-Mobile is now crawling mobile sites regularly.
According to Google, “This is to increase our coverage of smart phone content and to provide a better search experience for smart phone users.” We think that this means that the crawler will be able to identify sites specifically...
Drupal Vs. Wordpress
As a follow up to our previous blog post where we compared Drupal to Joomla, we have decided to pit Drupal against Wordpress. This is truly the major battle of the open source content management systems. Although these two platforms are incredibly popular and both are used to create and manage thousands of websites around the world they are still quite different from each other and should be used in different scenarios.
Both of these CMS' rely heavily on PHP...
How to Use Loadstorm to Run a Load Test on Your Site
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Loadstorm is a Drupal based load testing tool. You can use it to purchase Amazon instances on some servers to perform your test cases. Traditionally, you should do some performance testing prior to launching a Drupal website. Recently, we have needed to push the testing a little bit further.
Loadstorm is a tool for load and performance testing that uses Amazon Web Services in order to achieve huge amounts of scalability. It is a web based platform which allows either testers or developers to send huge...
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