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Choosing the right hosting company for a Drupal powered website (and a short list of hosting companies to avoid like the plague)

A good hosting company is hard to find, especially when you are building dynamic websites like Drupal. I have worked with scores of server companies over the past several years and have accrued a list of hosting companies to avoid.

How to display taxonomy terms from an individual vocabulary separately in Drupal

By default drupal prints out all terms from all vocabularies in the same place. Sometimes this is fine, but there are definitely occasions where it is preferable to have control over where each vocabulary is displayed on and individual basis. Fortunately Drupal can be made to do just about anything if you understand how it works.

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Unraveling the logic of Views Argument Handling Code in Drupal

Views is one of the most important contributed modules in Drupal (right along side CCK and Image Cache) and though it is fairly easy to learn the basics of views, there are a number of advanced features that take some time to get your head around. One of these more advanced subjects is Views Argument Handling Code.

This tutorial is going to be a little too advanced for those new to drupal, but for those that are ready to get a better theoretical grasp on drupal's inner workings it may provide some useful insights.

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IE and the problem of background images

I have never met a web designer that doesn’t despise Internet Explorer and I probably never will. There are a myriad of reasons for this widespread antipathy, but most of them have something to do with IE’s refusal to follow web standards. This article focuses on yet one more of those issues and provides a fairly simple solution.

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