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Resources and links collection of stuff that we have found interesting or helpful when developing websites, databases and workflow solutions.
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Faceted search with Drupal Lucene

The Drupal contributed LuceneAPI enables Drupal to use Lucene.

Lucene provides more user friendly search features like faceted search.

An example of faceted search can be found at http://websiteplus.com.au/search

On search page enter search query and/or use right-hand sidebar to drill into result set.

Lucene is worth considering if you are finding that Drupal's default SQL based search does not have required functionality.

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Latin text used on sample pages is Lorem ipsum

Lorem ipsum (lipsum) is the Latin text you see used on sample pages. Lipsum can be used to represent content that has no meaning.

Lorem ipsum generator can be used to create lipsum.

More information about Lorem ipsum can be found by visiting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

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Fancy headings with Cufon

The Drupal contributed module Cufon enables integration with the Cufon Javascript library. Cufon performs text replacement on web pages. Examples of use include fancy headings and special navigation effects. Visit Cufon demos to see how Cufon can be used.

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Google Page Speed

Google Page Speed is a Firefox add-on, that analyses how fast your web pages load.

Google Page Speed requires Firefox and Firebug.

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Service links makes link building easy and is quick

Drupal contributed service links module helps to make it real easy to build links to external services like del.icio.us, facebook, digg, etc. The benefit of using the service links module compared to the Drupal AddThis module is that it makes page load time fast. Downside is that it does not have as much functionality.

If providing a link where visitors can link your website to other services and speed of page load time is important then this module is worth considering.

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AddThis makes link building easy

Services like AddThis help make it real easy to build links. When used in conjunction with the Drupal contributed AddThis module it all becomes a little be too easy.

If you are unsure if having links is important then do a quick search on are links important to google.

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Activity Stream

Drupal Activity Stream brings all your activity on the web into Drupal.

There are lots of great services on the internet like Twitter, Del.icio.us or foursquare where you can have online conversations and share links about stuff you are interested in. The Drupal contributed activity stream module helps you to gather all of them together so that you can show these on your website.