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Event tracking forms in Google Analytics

Posted Tuesday February 28, 2012 · Blog · Comment
Event tracking in Google Analytics is a really useful way of monitoring user interactions with your website. It's often used for tracking embedded AJAX page elements and file downloads. Read the full article »

jQuery and jQuery UI in Drupal 7

Posted Sunday January 29, 2012 · Blog · Comment
The inclusion of jQuery in a custom Drupal theme seems to cause a lot of confusion to people new to Drupal. There is, of course, a proper way of doing it and it's not that difficult once you know how. Read the full article »

Using the Drupal 6 Fivestar module with Views

Posted Wednesday January 11, 2012 · Blog · Comment [1]
If you're using the Fivestar module for Drupal you'll probably at some point want to use your ratings within a View. Assuming you're enabling the Fivestar rating against the content type as opposed to via a CCK field then you'll need to include it in your View via a relationship in order to display it with the associated node. Read the full article »

Attempting to understand the Drupal 7 Media module

Posted Wednesday December 14, 2011 · Blog · Comment [3]
The Drupal 7 Media module seems like a step in a really good direction for handling media files and providing an improved user-interface. However, it feels unfinished to me. Read the full article »

arc_youtube new releases

Posted Sunday December 4, 2011 · Blog · Comment
I've finally gotten round to releasing a couple of updates to the arc_youtube plugin for Textpattern. arc_youtube v1. Read the full article »

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