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Drupal Localization and Internationalization

How do you build a site with content in more than one language? This article outlines the features of Drupal that will help you build a multilingual site.

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Making your website mobile

Have you visited your own website using a mobile phone? Were you happy with what you saw? If your site was not designed for mobile users then my guess is your experience was less than wonderful.

So what can you do to improve matters? Let’s start by looking at what the most common problems are, then discuss possible answers.

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5 reasons to choose Drupal for your website

Having successfully delivered more than twenty projects using Drupal, we think it is great, and feedback from our customers says they agree. Here’s five reasons why we continue to recommend it.
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10 Reasons to Choose WordPress for Business

WordPress is well known as a blogging platform – but it’s much more than that. It’s great as a basis for many types of business website, and here’s why:
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Relieve the pain of using Microsoft Word with WordPress or Drupal

If you are having trouble transferring text between MS Word and a CMS such as WordPress or Drupal, here’s some straightforward practical advice that should help.

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Page titles for SEO in Drupal and WordPress

This article was originally published exclusively for subscribers to our free weekly newsletter.

Contents

  1. What are page titles and why are they important?
  2. Page titles in WordPress
  3. Page titles in Drupal
  4. Read about page titles and how to maintain them in WordPress and Drupal

Website Security for WordPress and Drupal

This article was originally published exclusively for subscribers to our free weekly newsletter.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Security for WordPress
  3. Security for Drupal

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Syndication for WordPress and Drupal

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Contents

  1. A Short Introduction to Web Syndication
  2. Syndicating from WordPress
  3. Syndicating from Drupal

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Number one in Google: an introduction to search engine optimization

As a website owner, you want as many people as possible to come to your site. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of helping to ensure that whenever someone uses a search engine to look for something you offer, your site is highly placed and attracts visitors.

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Updating your own site: an introduction to content management systems

“I want to update my website myself” is a commonly-heard plea from site owners who’ve realised that the job of keeping the content of their websites up to date is too important a job to be left to web designers. In this article I’m going to explain why you should consider managing your content yourself and what you might look for in a web content management system (CMS).

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