Internet Marketing Strategies and Drupal Tips

Jan 24 2014

Live Blogging: Preparing for Drupal Sprint Day - Jan. 25, 2014

Volunteers all over the world are contributing their time to fix bugs and test patches to build a better Drupal 8. For more info see: http://www.seascapewebdesign.com/blog/drupal-8-sprint-weekend-jan-24-25-2014

I’m excited about participating in the Global Drupal Sprint Day tomorrow, Jan. 25, 2014 in Vancouver, Canada. I’ll be blogging about my experience here. In preparation for tomorrow's sprint, I’m following Sprint leader, Joel Pittet’s instructions found here: http://pittet.ca/drupal/sprint/2014-01-24
Jan 23 2014

Integrating Node.js with your existing Drupal site - Jan. 23, 2014

Surrey Drupal developer, Vladimir Ilic, will be presenting at tonight's meetup of the Vancouver Drupal Meetup. His session will cover requirements for integrating Node.js with your existing Drupal application.

Node.js - a paradigm shift in web development is coming to a server near you. It provides a unifying language all the way from the back end to the front end. This session will give you an overview on what Node.js is, how to get started with it, and most importantly, how and when to integrate it with your existing Drupal application (get best from both worlds).
Jan 20 2014

Mobile-friendly, Responsive Design for TruckPark.ca

Mobile-friendly, Responsive Design for Commercial Truck Parking Site, www.TruckPark.caSeascape Web Interactive created a custom design for Abbotsford commercial truck parking company, TruckPark.ca. This business brochure site comes with attractive slideshow on the home page. This Drupal 7 website is mobile-friendly and displays beautifully on hand-held devices such as iPhones, iPads and tablets. It also looks great on your laptop or desktop.


Visit www.truckpark.ca today!








Jan 20 2014

Promote Your Business For Free On Twitter

You don't need a marketing budget to promote your business on Twitter.

You can add dozens of new customers in just a matter of days without having to spend so much on advertising, of course, through the right approaches.

Social media networks have shown to be one of the most powerful and cost-effective ways to grow your company.

Twitter, being the largest micro-blogging channel on the internet, offers a lot of free ways that will bring in relevant customers, thereby boosting business and income.

Read rest of this article here: http://bit.ly/1jjeEO8

Jan 20 2014

Drupal 8 Sprint Weekend - Jan 24 - 25, 2014

For Drupal developers and Drupal users:
RSVP for Drupal 8 Sprint Weekend here: https://groups.drupal.org/node/394518

Friday evening, January 24th and all day Saturday Jan 25th is the Drupal Sprint Weekend, with local sprints being held around the world! Vancouver is no exception. The Jibe will be holding an all-day sprint at their offices on Friday Jan 24th @ 5pm and Saturday Jan 25th @9am-5pmish. The address is:

The Jibe
#202 - 311 Water St. Vancouver, BC (Canada)
http://goo.gl/maps/xWphZ

Contribute
This sprint will not have any specific focus, other than people should come to make public contributions to Drupal. Some examples of this could be
Dec 19 2013

New Website Launched: Mobile-friendly, Responsive Design for TruckPark.ca

Mobile-friendly, Responsive Design for Commercial Truck Parking Site, www.TruckPark.caSeascape Web Interactive created a custom design for Abbotsford commercial truck parking company, TruckPark.ca. This business brochure site comes with attractive slideshow on the home page. This Drupal 7 website is mobile-friendly and displays beautifully on hand-held devices such as iPhones, iPads and tablets. It also looks great on your laptop or desktop.


Visit www.truckpark.ca today!




Dec 13 2013

Git for Grown-ups


Emma Jane Westby has written a good tutorial on Git, the version control system. It goes into the "why" of Git, not just the commands you need to know to use Git. It's easy to read and appeals to adults method of learning.

http://24ways.org/2013/git-for-grownups/
Jul 4 2013

Learn to Streamline your CSS code with Sass

I’m learning to use Sass. It stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets. It’s a great way to organize and streamline your CSS code.

Here are some resources to get you started:

1.    Basic Introduction to Sass
This article gives a very good overview of what Sass code looks like.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/html5/articles/introduction-to-sass-part-1-i...

2.    Installing Sass on Windows
This is a great tutorial on how to install Sass on Windows. This also works on Windows 8
http://zqp.me/web-development/getting-started-with-sass-on-windows/

Jun 5 2013

Site Down with General Error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away

I recently got this error message while working on a Drupal 7.22 website. See screenshot.

Sometimes it's hard to find the sollution to this problem. The error message is so wordy and goes on for several lines. When searching Google for a solution, what search phrase do you use? Do you search for "Uncaught Exception in Shutdown Function" or "General Error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away"?

Here are some solutions to this problem.
1. Press F5 on your browser to refresh the screen. For some people, this simple step solved the problem.

2. Edit your my.ini configuration file to increase max allowed packet size.