Tonight sees me writing a very frustrated Drupal post, but I've googled until my eyes went googly and I can't see a solution.

So I turn to you, lovely people of Drupal Planet. I need your expertise and advice. And possibly a sample .tpl.php file...

Aptana Studio is free web development software which runs on Linux and Windows alike. I switched to it a few years ago to break my dependence on outdated versions of Dreamweaver.

A few weeks ago, I decided to rebuild this site using a minimalist template in order to see if it would affect the search engine rankings. So far, there's been no discernible impact, in case you're wondering.

However, I've been wondering if the stripped-down theme might have other benefits. Perhaps in terms of calls to action at the end of the post. I know that since changing the design, I've experienced more comment responses to the site, which I'm very grateful for.

I've read a few interesting blog posts recently about minimalist blog designs. Specifically this Tutorial9 post showcasing streamlined designs, and more recently this Devlounge article by Dustin Boston.

I love the idea of thoroughly streamlined designs, where the content is virtually the only thing on the page.

Here's a quickie Firefox hack - there may be quicker ways of doing this, but this is pretty nifty all the same.

Let me explain why I needed to search across all subdomains: on Unreality TV, we have a handful of subdomains, each containing its own installation of WordPress. Now, when I'm writing about a topic for the music blog, I might want to see what else we've written with regard to that person or band or celebrity.

I use the wp-shortstat plugin across all my WordPress blogs to track visitors and show me where my visitors are coming from.

However, Shortstat has its problems – it logs everything, resulting in a massive database size on your server. The more popular your site, the more this lumbering beast of a database slows things down. In fact, in one instance, the database grew so large that Shortstat couldn’t display the stats anymore.

I’m throwing in the towel with Dreamhost. The downtime problems that started in the summer and seem to be intermittently reappearing have caused me to completely lose hope in DreamHost.

I signed up for a Media Temple Grid Server (affiliate link) account a few weeks back and have been gradually porting my blogs across one-by-one. With other people following suit, I thought I’d share my notes for moving a WordPress install over to Media Temple.

Any SEO worth his (or her) salt, knows that Google Sitemaps are a great way to tell Google about the pages that are available on your site. Using a sitemap, you can basically pass Google an inventory of your content and let wee Googlebot crawl your pages without having to rely on your shaky navigational system!