Our next meet-up will be on Saturday, September 20th, 2008 from 1 to 3 PM at MindComent's offices (directions) in Altamonte Springs, Florida (Orlando area). This will be a 1-topic meeting with Jose Rey covering seo. We will also be planning the DrupalCamp Orlando that will happen sometime in the October timeframe.
We will kick off each meeting with a 20-minute quick question and answer session. Anyone can ask the group any question on any Drupal related topic; providing the question can be asked and answered in a short period of time. If you can't make the meetup, feel free to ask the question in the comment section of this post.
This new event string is to remind everyone of the September 20th meeting and so attendees can sign up.
For those of you that can't make the drive to Orlando/Altamonte Springs here's a conference call # so you can listen in.
Conference Dial-in Number: (712) 432-1690
Participant Access Code: 757446#
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Drupal SEO September 20th, 2008
The SEO talk this Saturday Sep 20, 2008 will be a review of the modules available to optimize Drupal Sites for Search Engine Optimization. The talk will follow the structure of the Drupal "SEO" Checklist Module.
Content:
1. Page Layout Considerations
- Typical Drupal page Layout
- Your site from a "bot's" perspective
2. URLs
- PathAuto Module & Clean URLs
- Global Redirect module
- Categories, Views, and Arguments and the URL
3. Content and Relevance
- Page Titles module
- Meta tags module
4. Cleanness (code and content)
- Safe HTML module & filters
- Captcha Module
5. Sitemaps & Making your Site available
- XML Sitemap Module
- Digg This & Service Links Modules
6. Tracking and understanding your site
- Google Analytics
- Google Webmaster Tools
These are just some of the modules that we will go over
Florida Drupal Group, We meet Every 3rd Saturday in Orlando
http://groups.drupal.org/florida
Florida Drupal Group, We meet Every 3rd Saturday in Orlando
http://groups.drupal.org/florida
I'm sorry, but I'm going to
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to miss this meeting, too. Unfortunately, I hurt my back again about a week before our August meeting, and I am still not able to make the trip to Orlando. Hopefully, I'll be able to make the meeting next month.
Steve
Wow, I have to say that I am
Wow, I have to say that I am glad this was my first Drupal Group meeting and look forward to more in the future. I hope that maybe more designers will be able to join our group and maybe we can have a discussions focused around design and interface with Drupal. I have of late started learning how to best use the Zen template, but I am sure there are many experts out there that could share their valuable experience!
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” -Einstein
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” -Einstei
You missed theming in July.
You missed theming in July. I presented about lots of theming stuff (on my birthday).
Right now, I am basing all my templates on Blueprint - in addition to clean, css-friendly design, it also has some useful Drupal "hacks" in it - the good kind of hacks.
Ryan Price
Florida Creatives
Ryan Price
DrupalEasy Podcast
Zen
I tend to use zen for my work. The "do it with drupal" meeting may be worthwhile. One of the projects I recently undertook involved porting a mature site on a proprietary CMS into drupal.
You may consider taking a site you find of interest and doing it with drupal -- by the time you've duplicated the look exactly, you'll more or less be an expert with manipulating the zen theme.