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Whilst the default Drupal search is ample for most sites, we needed a search system that was faceted, wouldn’t bog down MySQL, and would work on a cluster. There was one clear winner – Apache SOLR.

It's easy to assume that everyone is already aware of this (the W3C), but if you didn't already, you will find it an invaluable bookmark in your browser. Technically The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is:

Do you find yourself taking screen grabs of sites and then pasting them into Photoshop just to find out the RGB value of a certain small page element? If so then this extension for firefox may be able to help. Download and install Colozilla and you'll find an unobtrusive little info box that displays the RGB index of any element you hover over.

I had recently been working with PHP's mail function(), sending out automated HTML e-mails when a form was submitted.

Here I will show you how to add a new email account using SSH.

In this example we will be adding a user named Joe to the domain brightlemon.com
useradd -s /sbin/nologin joe

passwd joe

Enter a password for joe. You will be prompted to enter it again.

vi /etc/postfix/virtual

by Martin White

All web designers should be aware of the need to check the validity of the code contained within the pages they are creating before they make a page or entire site live to the public.

by Sam Street

The difference between a good web designer and a great one is the ability to know how to take short cuts and save time without compromising the quality of work.

I recently found a site offering 20 great tips that will speed up your work and give it a professional edge.

(This blog post is kindly referenced on Drupal.org here: http://drupal.org/node/123260)

by Sam Street

by Sam Street

by Chiara Consiglio