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Lisa from North Vancouver emailed me this question:

Q. I have noticed on the two Drupal sites I've developed so far that the universal contact form draws a great deal of spam email. I've tried the captcha module, using the image captcha as well as the mathematical question version. Neither of these approaches have stopped or prevented the influx of spam occurrences. I was wondering how you approach your clients contact forms for this issue?

And here is my response:

Come join Katy, Creative Director of www.SeascapeWebDesign.com for a practical presentation - Drupal Design to Theme

Katy will be covering the basics of Drupal Theming starting with your .PSD (Photoshop file), creating a CSS Layout, and converting it to a genuine Drupal 6 theme. CSS tips and using Drupal starter themes will be covered as well. Bring your questions and theming tips to share for the discussion that will follow Katy's presentation.

Please RSVP if you'd like to join us at http://www.meetup.com/surrey-drupal

I installed the Admin Role module several times and I wasn't able to get it working. It's a great little helper module that creates an Admin role that is automatically assigned all the permissions to any new modules that are installed. Note the update.php will still only work for the "real" admin (user #1).

Here's how to set it up:

1. Install Admin Role module and enable on the Site Building > Modules page under Administration

2. Go to User Management > User Roles and create a Site Admin role

Yesteday, my Drupal website alerted me to the news that Drupal core had been updated to 6.16. So I was looking forward to the day that the new Acquia Drupal bundle would be released. I visited www.acquia.com this morning and saw that it had been released yesterday. I wonder why I didn't get a message announcing this new release? I'm on their sales mailing list. I signed up for the free support subscription they were offering in their first year. Since that expired Dec. 31st 2009, I expected to still get notices of the new releases but I didn't get one.

Come join us for our Surrey Drupal Meetup on Feb. 11, 2010 7-9pm at ABC Restaurant at Fraser Hwy and 158th Street. Robert Scales, former CEO of Raincity Studios will be sharing with us relevant anecdotes about his company's open source business model, international markets, and their adventures in Drupaland.

Troubleshooting

Task: recreate live site on desktop server for development purposes

Problem: clean urls not working

1. Make sure that mod_rewrite is enabled on your server
Go to httpd.conf file and uncomment this line:
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

2. If you copied all the files from the live site directly to your local server, you may have
copied over the .htaccess file as well. This file applies specifically to your live server so it

Topic: Doing Business with Drupal
Date: Jan. 28, 2010
Time: 6:30-9:00 pm
Location: Appnovation Technogies
L200-560 Beatty Street
Vancouver, BC - Canada V6B 2L3
Phone: 1 (604) 568-0313

You can view a FREE video about Drupal 7 Alpha. Released by Learn by the Drop, this video covers what's new in Drupal 7. See http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/154

You can download the alpha version yourself and check it out. See http://drupal.org/drupal-7.0-alpha1

Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization is a new Drupal book authored by Ben Finklea and published by Packt Publishing. It’s a practical, step-by-step guide that takes the mystery out of Drupal search engine optimization (SEO) by showing you the tricks of today's top marketing pros to achieve top ranking in the search engines.

Come out and join us at the ABC Country Restaurant on Fraser Highway and 156th Street in Surrey, BC. Ben Finklea, the president of Volacci will be joining us via Skype video from Austin Texas and will be presenting on SEO for Drupal 6. This session will cover which modules you’ll need, how to configure them, and what more you can do to get your site to the top of Google. We’ll also have a little time for Q&A so bring your biggest SEO challenges and let’s solve them together.

For more details and RSVP: http://www.meetup.com/surrey-drupal/?a=fd_new_rsvp_grp