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    How to build a personal website with Drupal

    Personal websites are often created by individuals to contain content of a personal nature. The content can be about that particular person or about something which interests them. Personal web pages may be for information or entertainment purposes. Several people maintain personal websites...
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    How to build a news aggregating web site with Drupal

    A news aggregating website can be used to display live RSS feeds from different sites. Let's take a case where you will like to have a website which will display the most important news from all the newspapers in the UK . All you will need to do is go to the web sites of these newspapers and get...
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    Drupal 6 Site Blueprints - Alienspotting

    If you are interested in developing web applications with Drupal this book could seriously flatten the learning curve for you with the easy and fun to build projects. EXCERPT Alenspotting: When Winston Groovy returned home to his wife Rita in Kingston Jamaica after being missing for two...
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    Looking for a special kind of shopping cart solution

    The problem with out-of-box solutions is that your business shouldn't be out-of-box else why should anyone want to buy from you specifically if there are thousands of other sites that look like yours. Don't get me wrong some sales are also possible through buyers being familiar with the...
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    setting up online forums

    There are free to use Open Source software like phpBB and SMF and you don't have to go for the little bit extra sophistication that vbulletin offers. If you are able to buy suitable web hosting you could be up and going in a couple of hours on phpBB for example. If you have any problem with this...
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    CMS System

    There are a couple of things that you may want to think about really as your forum is already running . 1. Would you like to run the CMS separately in a way that the already registered users of the forum are not posting into the CMS ? 2. Will you be looking to [bridge] both frameworks in a way...
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    Affilitate Schemes

    I sell digital products from www.websesame.co.uk/clickmagic/ . I am giving away free webshops stocked with more than 10,000 products and paying up to 75% commission. Any takers ?
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    Online store...

    You can actually install OSCommerce on your site in a minute and completely FREE OF CHARGE. All you need to do is configure the site an add your products. Go to www.websesame.co.uk/oneclick/ and look at bottom right corner for instructions. If you need assistance with configuring ask me. I am...
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    Mambo / Joomla Question

    The banner component already exists in your basic install. All you need to do is configure it . Go to backend. Components > banners> manage banners . Add your banners and enable them. However they will only show in the banner positions of your template. Your banner modules must also be enabled...
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    Name for my Construction company? please?

    Grabbit & Runne Construction ? Flybie Knight Builders ? Slappiton Painters and Decorators ? ..........of course I am joking :) Get a name that is 1. memorable , 2.makes you feel good and proud ( hey, if your beloved wife's name is Nancy ; doesn't mean though that you should name...
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    Joomlaboard Forum - Help!

    As Subbynet advised , it might be worthwhile to install an earlier version. I gather that the last stable Joomlaboard release is 1.1.5 . It might also be helpful to consider running the forum together with Joomla and not PHP-Fusion as you have done.
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    ISP Recommendations

    At the risk of being accused for promoting, I would say try REDTEN ..plus they give you a free computer system. Check my link www.websesame.co.uk/redten
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    Can anyone help please????...

    Astaroth is right . Have you ever tried bidding against a developer/designer based in India ? Very frustrating indeed. He can afford to do a quite sophisticated site for less than £100 . What can you do with that sort of money ? On the other hand many UK businesses are realising the folly of...
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    Joomlaboard Forum - Help!

    Can you give me a link to the website , or some screenshots ? Is this a new site or live ? Are the versions compatible (Joomla/Joomlaboard) ?
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    Name for my Construction company? please?

    Use a name that is warm and memorable. If you are into Fox , make it RedFox or similar. BTW I will like to do your website :)