http://www.soleer.com/blog Lessons Learned and General News for Soleer an up-and-coming Austin, TX Development & Design Firm. Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:28:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ A major breakthrough for the web design & development communities... Yesterday (March 5th), at the MIX conference in Las Vegas, the IE team announced the availability of a developer beta of IE8 Beta 1 for Download.  This normally would not be such a huge deal, but the folks at Microsoft are actually ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/03/06/internet-explorer-8-beta-1-for-developers/ One of the most important responsibilities of a professional web developer is making sure that your designs are accessible to all. According to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp, the latest browser utilization rates are as follows: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x (IE6) - 36.9% Fire Fox (FF) - 34.5% Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x (IE7) - 20.1% Opera (O) - 1.9% Safari ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/02/28/browser-testing/ Due to the occasional small (or large) fluke, your entire Drupal website can become inaccessible because of a module.  This is how you solve the problem: disable the specific module by altering values in your Drupal database. In our case, we'll use phpMyAdmin, but you can use whatever utility you prefer ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/02/19/disabling-drupal-modules-via-your-database/ Microsoft recently announced the Beta release of its HealthVault platform. The platform is aimed at helping people better manage their health information. The information available from Microsoft is pretty cryptic, but basically it looks like the service is a massive database for storing and sharing health information. Some are perturbed by ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/02/04/microsofts-healthvault-revolution/ So, I began testing all of my sites for XHTML compliance. I noticed that some of my nested lists were not validating. They all displayed properly, but (*gasp*) they weren't valid XHTML. Here's what I found the problem was, and the resulting solution: I was displaying the following list: Item 1 Item 2 Item ... http://www.soleer.com/blog/2008/01/27/xhtml-valid-nested-list/