http://www.soleer.com/blog Lessons Learned and General News for Soleer an up-and-coming Austin, TX Development & Design Firm. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:04:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Orthopedic Associates of Central Texas (OACT) is the only comprehensive orthopaedic group serving Williamson County. Despite their strong presence in the local and medical communities, their old site was nowhere to be found on search engines, and the user interface was not only ugly but difficult to navigate. OACT contacted Soleer looking ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2010/03/16/orthopedic-associates-site-launched/ Simple, Affordable, Effective.  These are the principles of the D2Derm Skin Care line, and they came to us needing a website with the same characteristics. We worked with D2Derm to provide an informational site that integrated with their PayPal shopping cart, allowing online shopping for their customer base, and simplifying their sales ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2010/02/26/d2-dermatologics-launched/ Today we launched the new website for the Onion Creek Club, a genuine Texas treasure steeped in family tradition, friendliness, camaraderie and good fun! Onion Creek Club is Austin’s most historic golf club, founded in 1974 by three-time Masters Champion, Jimmy Demaret. There is no other golf ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2010/02/18/onion-creek-club-launch/ When one of the largest and fastest growing community colleges in the nation needed a fully functional Drupal CMS website ready for new student registration (in under 3 weeks), they turned to Soleer. Features for the Austin Community College website include seperate portals for eight programs and seven campuses with unique ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2009/08/01/acc-student-life-launch/ We're implementing the new WYSIWYG Module in Drupal 6, and really digging it.  We are using it with our WYSIWYG Editor of choice: TinyMCE (3.2.1.1). We noticed, however, as we were setting up the module in Drupal, that our beloved media button was gone. Here's how we got it back in ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2009/01/27/media-button-in-wysiwyg-module/ The Problem  We experienced a problem when attempting to move one of our codeigniter (CI) websites from one server to another.  We performed the transfer of the files, database setup, and necessary config file changes.  Then came time to test, and... Nothing.  FireFox and IE7 both rendered a blank page. Debugging  We tracked down the ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/09/02/codeigniter-no-output/ CVS deployment enables a whole new level of simple installation and upgrading.  To install a Drupal module using the standard method, you have to: Find the module on Drupal.org Wait for the Module to Upload Unzip the contents Connect to your FTP server Browse to the module directory Wait for the module to upload Using CVS installation, all you ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/07/11/install-drupal-modules-via-cvs/ The importance of search engine optimization (SEO) is at an all time high, and the value of solid SEO is increasing daily.  A recent JupiterResearch and NPD Group "Blended Search Results Study" shows first page search-result-listings are vital for web traffic. Almost 7 out of 10 individuals surveyed clicked on a first-page ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/04/24/seo-more-important-than-ever/ As we know, designers can never leave well enough alone.  The default css behavior is for bullets to be the same color as their associated list item <li>.  Although there are a number of solutions on the internet, this is the most simple, elegant, and universally compatible.  Here is an example ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/04/14/bullet-coloring-with-css/ How to Display CiviCRM events on a Drupal Calendar using CiviEvent's iCal Feed and the Drupal Calendar Module: Pre-requisits: You’ll need an instance of CiviCRM running on Drupal, (we’re using Drupal 5.5 with CiviCRM 1.9) with CiviEvents Enabled. Download & Install the following Drupal modules: Calendar: http://drupal.org/project/calendar Views (required by Calendar): http://drupal.org/project/views Date (required by Calendar): ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/03/24/how-to-display-civicrm-events-on-a-drupal-calendar/