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I've installed the FCKEDITOR module that allows you to do what-you-see-is-what-you-get editing -- basically, you can add bold, italics, tables, make stuff headings and the like when making pages or adding blog entries.

There you go. One more thing that no one will use.

As a second consequence of working on Drupal at the day job, site requirements pushed me into fixing up the URLs of the various pages on the site. In fact, I ended up finding a module for Drupal that will make the URLs fancy automagically.

It's called the Pathauto module -- change the PATH AUTOmatically.

Here's what it did. Here's a typical URL from the site:

http://parkspages.com/node/3

Doesn't tell you anything, does it?

Here's how Pathauto changes it and makes it much more useful:

http://parkspages.com/doug

Here's a couple more:

Blog Entries

Time for a tune up.
 
So, I was working on Drupal (the Content Management System used on ParksPages) for work and realized that it's dog slow. That's one of the reasons my boss was hesitant to switch to it from the Perl script we're currently using to generate our web pages.
 
Now, I thought that PPages was slow because our host was slow. Turns out it's slow for a couple of reasons unrelated to that. Basically, two things: cache and theme. The underlying issue is that Drupal generates web pages on the fly, pulling from the database.
 
Cache simply saves a copy of the web page so that when a user comes to it, it can just spit it out without having to create it from the database and re-draw it.