Broadstreet Blog
I had a problem appear this week that I've seen before, but couldn't remember the best resolution for it.
If you don't setup your ImageCache Presets correctly, you sometimes get caught with black stripes down the sides of your images. In my case, this was happening in a view used on the Tyler Brothers website, in this case the page for Youth and Children's Carhartt clothing.
The solution to the black stripes is to define your "canvas" color within your imagecache preset. Here's what I believe to be the best way:
First, install the ImageCache Actions module. This module gives you a great number of options to transform your uploaded images.
Then, add a Define Canvas action. The position of this action is important. In my case, it needs to go between the Scale and Crop actions.
Seth Godin had a good post called "What did you ship in 2010?", which listed out all his accomplishments for 2010 and asked readers to think about our own. Read it at Seth's Blog.
Sometimes we get caught up in the daily busy-ness of business and don't take a breather to see what we've accomplished. Well, here's a list of things we've done Broadstreet Consulting, 2010.
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I'm a little late sharing this but I just wanted to take moment to mention the very successful Bar Camp Charleston (www.BarCampChS.org).
There were dozens of interesting sessions covering everything from Linux to Web Design to Salsa dancing. There were 3 Drupal sessions. The first was 'Intro to Drupal' which was given by Nikolai Burton. Nikolai runs Charleston Drupal Users Group (http://chsdug.org/) and also presented a session called "A Whirlwind World Tour of Film." Nikolai was asked to do this session att the last minute and he filled in admirably. He presented to a packed classroom of more than forty people and it was a valuable session.
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Here's a Summary of my Presentation at DrupalCamp Asheville (NC), September 18, 2010.
We tested Boost on www.busbeetruckparts.com and a test version of www.tylerbrothers.net. Both of these sites have mostly anonymous users and fairly static content. They are both hosted on a shared hosting service. These factors make them good candidates for Boost.
You can get to the Boost Project at www.drupal.org/project/boost.
Apache Bench (ab) is a performance measurement tool that comes with Apache. It comes natively on a Mac. If you are using a PC, you need to load the WAMP or XAMPP stack to get Apache and ab. Some links about ab and XAMPP:
XAMPP or XAMPP lite on a Windows machine:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646
More info on the process:
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Like most people, I started doing business with GoDaddy a long time ago, when I first started registering Domain names. Actually, my first domain—sliker.com in 1997—was done through Network Solutions, who I think had a monopoly back then. But like most people, when GoDaddy came out with $9.99 domains it was irresistible. Since then I have had hundreds of domain registrations and renewals at GoDaddy, and two different hosting accounts for my various customer sites and my own Web properties.
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Whenever I hear something that makes me want to read a certain book, I right it down in my Outlook To-Do list. I have an Agenda item called "Books to Read"-- I add it to my list.
This week, before I left on vacation, I checked my list and found Roy Spence's "It's Not What You Sell, It's What You Stand For." I don't remember where I heard about this book. I thought maybe it was The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast or else Chris Brogan's Blog, but after a Quick Google search I don't think it's either of them. Regardless of the source, I'm glad I'm reading it.
Currently the front page of the Broadstreet Consulting site says:
Broadstreet Consulting specializes in helping small enterprises build and expand their business using the World Wide Web.
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The first ever Drupal Camp South Carolina is coming up this Sunday and I am giving a presentation called "Which Drupal Modules Should I Use?" The presentation is geared toward people who are new to Drupal and lost in determining which of the 5000+ contributed modules to use.
You can download the PDF or the PPT file at www.broadstreetconsulting.net/ppt.
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This month we ran our first advertisement in the Wagener Monthly, which is a part of the Aiken Standard. This is it.
Broadstreet has been in business in its current form for about 4 years. By all measurements, business is good. We have a handful of excellent customers that really understand the Web and how it can transform their business. We continue to grow, mostly by word of mouth, and we become more productive and more efficient, making more powerful and better looking websites, and branching more and more into the marketing end of the business.
So now we enter a new phase - old school paper-based advertising which supports a paper that supports our community. I like it. What do you think?
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Monday night we had our third Drupal Columbia meet-up at the Richland County Public Library and had 7 attendees. It was exciting and very encouraging since the first two meetings were only 3 people.
Most people attending were new to Drupal but I was glad to see some representatives from Pure Fishing (www.purefishing.com) there. Pure Fishing is a company that owns several well known fishing brands, including Shakespeare, which has long had a presence here in Columbia, and Mitchell, which has a very attractive Drupal Site at www.fishmitchell.com.
I spent quite a bit of time explaining blocks and CCK and views, and Bob from Pure Fishing took a few minutes to show us the MagicZoom feature used on the Mitchell product pages. Very impressive, if you asked me-- here's an example: www.fishmitchell.com/products/reels/avocet%C2%AE-ii-gold-series. You can read more about Magic Zoom here: www.magictoolbox.com/magiczoom
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Tommy and I were playing around tonight. I had an idea for a Drupal SC logo, and he has the Photoshop skills. What do you think?
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