Wordpress gives you a great way of editing posts and adding images right out of the box, but it isn't always obvious how to add Flash content. In particular I was looking for a simple and quick solution to add a Flash banner to the header of a site.

Note: This assumes that apache has been installed.
For more details see HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server

Edit hosts file

sudo gedit /etc/hosts

Add an entry for the new website. For example:

127.0.0.1 cooltestsite.local

I’ve just set up Windows Live Writer to edit my blog posts. Despite what I have read in various postings this desktop blog editing software integrated seamlessly with my Drupal blog (including photo uploads). This worked with both Windows 7 Starter on my Acer AspireOne netbook and in Windows XP Pro on my Dell 390 workstation.

This seems obvious now, but as I first began using Drupal I was incredibly confused by the taxonomy system. I guess it is because the word "taxonomy" brings to mind a labyrinthine system of classification as used in biology or an intricate nomenclature like that of organic chemistry. But it is really simple.

When I brought the site over to Drupal I initially concentrated on duplicating the look and feel of my original site. In order to accomplish this I ended up creating a new Drupal theme from scratch based on the original XHTML and CSS code. I then went and added content, duplicating the original structure of the site. I made heavy use of the Path module and enabled URL re-writing in order to keep the page addresses consistent with their static versions. This is important for search engine visibility.

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