Blogs

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

Restart Apache for APC to take effect

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.

Installing Ubuntu Server

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.

Mar
08

a good start

by CK Ng

forDrupal's first theme is finally out for public consumption, after months of planning, design, coding and vigorous testing, with all the planned features added. ZincOut serves as a good start that forms the basis where other themes will be based on. But we are not stopping with those features alone, a lot of new features are being planned and as soon as we find it stable and easy to use, we will update and include them to all the themes.

We are already planning for the second theme, which will be named Platino, a community theme for general social networking. Watch this space!