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2010/02/23 Create your perfect website screenshot.

Submitted by robo on Tue, 2010-02-23 21:59

I noticed that quite so many drupalsites.net users would submit not exactly nice screenshots for the sites they want present to the crowd. For majority of visitors screenshot is the major push to click on your site link to check it out. So it's very important to have a nice one. I gathered a few tips for grabbing a perfect website screenshot (and not only for drupalsites.net of course). Here we go:

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2010/02/02 Few updates and horror message translation contest

Submitted by robo on Tue, 2010-02-02 00:38

That was a tremendous couple of month for drupalsites.net. We had the biggest surge of nice submission in years (so some were delayed to be promoted). Lately the quality of drupal websites is dramatically better in general. Both visually and on the functionality side. Not so many "blumarine" sites are popping up, nice. Drupal devs - full steam ahead!

Also, I'm very glad that 85% of latest submissions are provided with a great website screenshot. If you sill don't know how to make it just wait a few more days. New blog post on this matter will be published in a few days.

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2009/12/24 Book review: Drupal 6 Social Networking

Submitted by robo on Thu, 2009-12-24 17:59

Drupal 6 Social Networking (by PACKT Publishing) will be extremely handy to anybody new to Drupal and those looking for recipes to build community sites. It gives you the basic understanding of how Drupal works and what buttons you need to push to achieve desired results. It has great step by step tutorials (with screenshots) on the vast majority of common tasks you do with a Drupal site: content, menu and user management, permissions, adding and configuring modules, etc. It also helps you understand how Drupal modules integrate with each other to extend site functionality.

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2009/12/17 DrupaCamp Vienna 2009

Submitted by robo on Thu, 2009-12-17 21:26

It turned out we were traveling on the same train with @gaborhojtsy so it was my chance to question him about i18n issues. And I really love it how even most busy core (and around) dev guys in Drupal community are friendly and ready to share.

I loved the Camp organization. It was nice, neat and friendly. Moreover, organizers did learn on the fly making a better Drupal branded signs to navigate in huge Vienna Tech Uni building. And of course that geeky coffee machine.

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2009/12/15 5000 Sites, Gravatar and Blogs

Submitted by robo on Tue, 2009-12-15 20:55

A few days ago drupalsites.net reached historical peak of 5000 submitted sites in 4 years of existence online! But up to date we have "only" slightly less then 4000 sites listed. The reason for this 1000 span is moderation: some sites have gone offline or migrated to other CMS, while the others were just spam. And we do monitor all listed sites randomly almost every day. Also there are almost 6000 registered users now. Nice.

And this is a wonderful occasion to thank everybody who submitted sites and helped with DrupalSites.net development!