Command Line Basics
CourseThe command line can be a scary place for someone not familiar with interacting with a computer through text-only. We are so used to using GUIs to point and click our way through tasks. In this series we'll walk through some of the most common command line tasks to help you understand what is going on and be able to do some cool tricks yourself.
This is the first video in a series that shows basic command line usage for *nix systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X, and on Windows, using applications like Cygwin. This video shows the following commands and spends the most time explaining how to move around your file structure from the command line:
- pwd
- ls (and ls -al)
- less
- cd
- man
- clear
Note: this video was originally released August 31, 2009 on Lullabot.com.
Sorry About That (a.k.a. Whoopsie Daisy)
Blog postSome of you may have noticed that, for several hours on Friday evening, the drupalize.me site was unavailable. We're very sorry! We've been working hard lately, building some nifty new features. To let you in on a little secret, we've been working on a fancy new subscription system that will allow subscribers to choose 6 month or 1 year subscriptions instead of just monthly. W00t! Many of you have requested this. We were working on this new feature when we made an error (insert sad trombone sound) that required us to temporarily take the site down.
Drupal 7 co-maintainer Angie Byron gives a overview of some of the new Drupal 7 features, themes and user interface. She is joined by Nate Haug, Jeff Robbins, Jeff Eaton and Kent Bye who also provide a lot of insights through dynamic conversation, questions, and a fast-paced, hands-on tour of the major highlights of the new Drupal 7 release.
Talks about some of the next steps in the on-going process of conducting an SEO campaign as well as some additional resources.
Reviews all of the material covered in the Drupal SEO video series.
Provides an overview and examples of clear calls to action for your website in order to optimize your conversion rate ratio.
See how to get some independent metrics on your SEO efforts by using a number of different graders and standards compliance websites.
Learn more about why it's important to have quickly loading pages for SEO purposes, and some possible modules to help speed up your page loads on simple websites.
Goes through the process of validating the standards compliance of your website through a number of different websites.
Goes through the best practices for setting up the .htaccess file to ensure that there is not duplicate content on your domain name with or without the prefixing www.
Goes through the best practices for setting up your robots.txt file so that you can prevent the search engines from crawling specific pages on your Drupal site.
Learn how to submit an XML sitemap of your entire website to the search engines so that they know about all of your content on your website.
Shows how to organize content silos by using Drupal's built-in navigational menu system.
Goes through the process of using Drupal's taxonomy system in order to cluster together similar content.
Shows how to optimize the HTML title tags on each page with SEO keywords, and takes a look at the HTML source code to see the hierarchical nature of the h1 and h2 tags.
Goes through setting up location-based information on your Drupal site, and from within Google so that you can optimize websites for local businesses.
Shows which meta tags are relevant and which ones are not, and how to set them up on your Drupal site.
Shows how to automatically redirect URLs to another URL with the global redirect module, and how to set up more specific redirects with the path redirect module.
Shows the process of automating and customizing the URLs and menu paths for different pieces of content.