Tutorials

I just recorded this video showing how to use the Menu Attributes module for Drupal 6. I'm still getting used to recording so please excuse flawed delivery :)

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For those of you who are unlucky enough to have a Windows Mobile phone like me, you might be interested to know that you can now sync your contacts and calendar directly with your Google Apps account. All you need to do is enable it through your Google Apps account and then configure ActiveSync on your Windows Mobile phone to sync with the Google server.

Enable the Mobile Service

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If your company creates a lot of documents, forms, white-papers, etc it’s very handy to have a specific Word style set that matches the rest of your company branding so all your documents are consistent. In this post I will go through the steps on creating your own style set and deploying it through your organization using Word 2007. If you are using a different version of Word, the process will be very similar, but the clicks might be slightly different.

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I saw this post on Search Engine Land yesterday about how a German car website had used Javascript to animate their URL so it looked like a car was driving from left to right in the address bar. I thought this was pretty cool and I was bored this morning so I reproduced it using jQuery. See the results here.

Here is how it’s done.

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Man this has been a long time coming. PayPal’s encrypted Buy Now buttons were always a pain in the ass because if you needed to change anything about the product (like the price), you needed to recreate the button from scratch. What made it even worse is that if you weren’t the person that set it up in the first place, you had to guess all the variables when you recreated it.

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The Ubiquity extension for Firefox is an awesome tool that allows you to download user created mashups to do some really cool things in your browser. The video below shows the power of what it can do.

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I was inspired by this episode of SEOMoz's whiteboard friday where Rand talks about tracking non-traditional conversions (like when someone posts a comment on your blog) so I decided to check out how easy this was to do in Drupal.

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I've recently moved from my all in one Outlook setup to separate Google Apps for your domain instances which I'm really loving, but one thing that was bugging me was not being able to see my calendar from my other domains. I was able to share the calendar fine, but it was only giving me the option to share it with the permission "See only free / busy (hide details)", so I could see when I had things scheduled in my other calendar's but not what they were.

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On my RC news blog there are quite a few elements that are used on a regular basis in news posts (eg specifications tables, etc). It's a major pain in the ass recreating these elements again and again, and now that I've got a few other writers on board, it's getting hard to keep everything consistent.

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I've just moved another of my emails over to Google Apps (even after the trouble I had in the past) and needed to find a way to manage my multiple Google accounts. Some of thesugges ted solutions were:

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