Blogs

Jul
18

Dropping IE6 Support

by CK Ng

As of August 1st, 2010, forDrupal will pull all support on Internet Explorer 6. forDrupal will no longer be creating themes that support IE6.

Jul
16

GPL license coverage

by CK Ng

Following the debate of Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg over GPL theme. We would like to take the opportunity to clarify our theme licensing to avoid any confusion.

Drupal is an open source software covered under GPL (ver. 2), all derivative works based on Drupal are GPL as well. That means portion of our codes that are derivative of Drupal such as theme settings and template files (basically everything ending with .php or .inc) are covered by GPL and may be freely distributed.

The “look and feel” of forDrupal themes which includes files not dependent on Drupal, typically images, javascript and CSS are not subject to the GPL and are the intellectual property of forDrupal and licensed to you upon purchase via our website.

Apr
29

Setting up WYSIWYG editor

by CK Ng

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, or a client-side editors (a.k.a. WYSIWYG editors) for editing content. Here is a simple step by step installation to get you up and running with WYSIWYG editor and make your end users happy. And if you owned a forDrupal themes, we have included goodies to use with WYSIWYG editor just for you.

Apr
26

Ubuntu Production Setup on VPS/Server for Drupal - Part 2

by CK Ng

This is part 2 of the setup, where we concentrate on making the server production ready. Part 1 focus on the basic server setup to get Drupal running, you can find Part 1 here.

Performance

Opcode cache helps speed up your PHP considerably. We are using APC here, there are other alternatives such as XCache, eAccelerator, Zend Optimizer, etc.

Install APC Opcode

This will install APC 3.0.18-1

# aptitude install php-apc
Apr
23

Ubuntu Production Setup on VPS/Server for Drupal - Part 1

by CK Ng

We've moved forDrupal to Linode VPS to serve you better. Since we just setup a server over there, we thought it would be nice to share it with you the process and served as a note for ourselves.

The following steps are conducted under Ubuntu 8.10 on a VPS. However it should be the same for newer version of Ubuntu or if you are setting up a dedicated server or a virtual machine.

Update: Linode just released Ubuntu 9.04 today, the steps here should be the same.

Apr
21

slow page load

by CK Ng

Thanks for everyone that informed us that the site is slow. We are working with the hosting company to try to solve the problem. Have tried transferred to a new server but seems like the problem is more to international bandwidth than server.

We are investigating other hosting solution and will be moving again to serve you better.

Apr
15

10 backend modules you may've missed

by CK Ng

There are a number of useful Drupal modules quietly working hard at the backend on websites around the globe. They usually come without any visible UI to the end user. You should get to know about them. In alphabetically order:

  1. Backup and Migrate
    Simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your Drupal database or migrating data from one Drupal site to another, with automatic scheduled backups.
  2. Boost
Apr
13

platino is here!

by CK Ng

We're adding the first community theme to our themes collection - Platino.

Platino is a community centric theme, simple yet customizable, and appealing to community users. Although it is designed from ground up to be community based, it is an equally able theme for corporate, brochure, or personal site.

Apr
13

developer license

by CK Ng

Good news to designer and developer who wishes to use forDrupal themes for client projects can now utilize the new Developer License to save cost and time.

The developer license entitles you to use the theme on as many sites as you wish at any given time. You may install the theme on many sites, including client sites. However, you may not resell or redistribute the theme in any way.

One Time Usage License permits you to use the same theme for different sites under the same domain, e.g.:

  • www.your-drupal-site.com
Mar
10

block highlights

by CK Ng

forDrupal's themes have a range of highlights styles to choose from to further enhance your content presentation. Highlights are highly suitable for custom block region.

Method 1

To use the highlights, you have to know basic HTML on applying classes to tags. A typical way is

<div class="highlight-blue"> … your content … </div>

You may need to change the input format depending on your configuration. "Full HTML" input format should always work.