Advantage Labs The Art and Science of Online Progress

Last week while milling around with those gathered for the Drupal meetup sponsored by the visiting folks at Lullabot, I kept hearing a loud buzz about Komodo, a sophisticated code-editing software tool. Turns out that Komodo, which normally costs an amount of bucks I found too rich for my blood, has a free version called Komodo Edit that provides a large chunk of its commercial version's functionality.

While some of our Lab Hours regulars were filling their brains at Lullabot's training session, the rest of us stuck it out and tackled our projects:

On this sunny spring day, it almost seemed like everyone's questions were going to be answered before we got through introductions.  All the better to get out and enjoy the weather!  But of course, there's always new stuff to learn and do:

Hopefully, you know that if you host your Drupal site with Advantage Labs, you have access to AWStats. You can see your Drupal stats by logging into the pajunas management area with the same username and password you use for the Advantege Labs projects area. Your Drupal statisics will include a graphical view of items such as visitor traffic, operating systems, search terms, and page enties and exits. See a demo at: http://www.nltechno.com/awstats/awstats.pl?config=destailleur.fr .

I also found some very interesting information by submitting my site to the Google webmaster tools. There, you can see information such as the pages Google has indexed, search queries with the position found, internal and external links and web crawl errors such as URLs not found and URLs timed out.

It is easy to sign up:

Last Wednesday's Lab Hours was a busy time. Here's a quick summary of what we covered:

I just discovered that Firebug, the indispensible web development plug-in (add-on) for FireFox, does not play well with TinyMCE, the WYSIWYG tool that can be used to provide rich text editing in text blocks on websites (including this one).

Many of our clients and colleagues have been migrating toward using versioning systems to manage the development of their websites and their clients' websites. Advantage Labs uses an open source version control software system called Subversion.

So I've been trying to figure out how to make my organic group homepage look nicer than the default "River of News". Well I think we figured it out last night. You need to have the newest version of Organic Groups module, and the Panels 2 module.

Make sure that you enable all the necessary parts, like og_panels, and panels pages, etc.

When you are in the group that you want to modify the homepage of, you click on the 'pages' tab. And there ya go.