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Whether you are a designer, or haven't doodled anything since you were bored in study hall, have you ever wondered what it takes to successfully illustrate something fun and compelling? After all, illustrations and graphics can be powerful visual tools used to enhance our content. Luckily, the answer is quite simple: all you need is creative problem solving, basic shapes, and a few tricks up your sleeve.

This week we wrap up our exploration of integrating Drupal with Apache Solr. We'll look at using facets for narrowing returned search results, and some additional Solr server configuration options for further refining our index.

In our free Module Monday: Backup and Migrate tutorial we discussed all the benefits and features the module has to offer. In this tutorial I am going to extend on the functionality of the module because something great has happened in the Drupal world. Pantheon, a Drupal hosting provider, has purchased NodeSquirrel an offsite backup solution created by the makers of the Backup and Migrate module. What is so great about this is Pantheon is allowing free backups up to 5gb. This means there are no more excuses not to have an offsite backup of your Drupal database.

Join Amber Matz as she chats with web accessibility aficionados Mike Gifford, Chris Albrecht, and Helena Zubkow about what web developers and Drupalistas can do to build more accessible web sites. How has web accessibility changed over the years? Who is being left behind? What are some common gotchas? What are some easy ways to get started testing for accessibility? All these questions and more are discussed in today's podcast. Don't forget to check out the links and resources in the show notes for all sorts of useful things mentioned in our discussion.

It's that time again! Our team worked hard last month to bring new content and site features to our members. Here's a overview of what we accomplished.

This week we continue exploring the Search API module and use it to display search results from Solr in Drupal. As well as looking at additional configuration options for our Search API index.

Rich snippets can draw attention to your Google search results and increase your click-through rate (CTR). So what are rich snippets, and how do they alter Google search results?

This week we continue learning how to integrate Drupal with Apache Solr by looking at how to install Apache Solr on both development and production servers, and how to connect Solr to Drupal with the Search API module.

The entire Drupalize.Me team, along with most of Lullabot, was in Los Angeles last week for DrupalCon, and we had a blast. In podcast episode 64 Addi gathered a few Lullabots together to talk about DrupalCon highs and lows, along with our top session picks (and a link to all of the DrupalCon session videos).

This week we start our new series on improving Drupal's search with Apache Solr.

One thing people like to do with online learning is work and watch at the same time. Members have let us know that they want to be able to watch our videos on their TVs while using their computers to work along with the trainer. Luckily Drupalize.Me has several options to make this happen.

Debugging is a discipline that requires patience, and a fervent attention to detail. In the often times fast paced world of software development, when we're faced with deadlines, and an ever growing list of new features to add, and bugs to resolve, it can be a difficult to slow down and proceed in a meticulous, measured fashion. When it comes to solving difficult problems though, this fastidious approach is exactly what's required to locate, and resolve, a problem's root cause.