Geremia Doan - Technology Consultant and IT Specialist
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I found out how to create a custom icon for iPhone and iPod Touch for my websites.  That way if someone adds my site to their home screen, they will have an attractive icon instead of just a picture of the website. There is a simple tutorial here.  It is surprisingly easy.  I created the icon with Photoshop Elements from the source image of the logo for this site.

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To have the structure of choosing "big" terms from a list, and the flexibility of entering multiple terms into a field when creating content, simply Add Vocabulary. Choose Free Tagging for the second vocabulary that you add. Now, when you create content, you will see both vocabulary fields in a box called "Categories."

When setting up Drupal on my home server, it was very easy to just install the SMTP support module and use Gmail's SMTP settings. I therefore assumed the same would work on my GoDaddy shared hosting account. I was mistaken; I was not able to send an email from Drupal no matter what with SMTP module installed.

I scoured Drupal.org and nothing.

Here is how to allow Drupal to send email from within a GoDaddy shared host:
1. Uninstall the SMTP module.

That's it; apparently GoDaddy has the server set up to allow Drupal to send email without the SMTP module.

You can’t import an SQL database larger than 2 MB using PHPMyAdmin. So what do you do? There is a script called bigdump.php that you can download, edit and upload that will automatically import your database no matter how big.
This is what you do:
1. Export your database from the site’s current location to a database.sql file.
2. Download bigdump.php from http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump.php.
3. Edit bigdump.php by adding the destination MySQL database name, location and password, as well as the name of the .sql file that you want to import.

GoDaddy has a handy Cron Job utility. It is in the Hosting Control Center under Content, then Cron Manager. To run cron every hour on your Drupal site, insert the following command:
curl -silent -compressed http://yoursite.com/cron.php
Give it a name and set it to run every hour at whatever minute of the hour you want. Seems to work fine.

If Clean URLs doesn’t work after moving your site to another server, a modification can be made to the .htaccess file that may fix the problem.
Scroll to the bottom of the file, and directly above the first RewriteCond line, add this new line: “RewriteBase /” This worked on a GoDaddy shared host.

Editing the .htaccess file in Windows can also be a problem because Windows has a problem with the name for some reason. You have to edit the file, save it with a different name, upload the file, and change the name using the FTP client.

March 10, 2008 at 8:57 pm · Filed under ·Tagged Drupal, Taxonomy · Edit

You can see Taxonomy in action on my website at www.greatbigtelephonepole.com.

The Taxonomy settings are under Administer/Content Management/Taxonomy.

Drupal comes with taxonomy built in. Taxonomy categorizes the content of the website. For example, if you had a website where people could post garage sale announcements and lost cats, you can use it to view a page of just garage sales or a page of just lost cats. You could place a link to that page in the Primary Links that you see across the top of the page.

I have recently configured 2 of these Netgear routers for use with Toshiba IP Telephones connected to a Toshiba PBX system in another city.

After making the following configuration changes, both phones worked beautifully: