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We all need reliable web hosting! And those of us in the Drupal world long for a web hosting company that at least knows what Drupal is and can help support our sites that use it in an intelligent manner.

I'm going to test out the advice found here:

http://www.seoracle.com/google-analytics-how-to-tutorial/analytics-redir...

on tracking redirects in Google Analytics.

I'm going to use the path redirect module to redirect a dummy page to this page with the info below tacked on:

www.yourdomain.com/redirected-page-name?utm_source=yoursource&utm_medium...

I'll write some more after I hook it up and see if it works....

Ok, I added the redirect using path redirect so that:

http://kristen.org/test-redirect

redirects to:

I have just released the Views Examples module at drupal.org. It is a library of views that you can enable and use directly within the views UI.

Here's what views examples are included so far along with what they look like on this site. I will be add more examples and welcome suggestions.

• vex_accesslog_general
• Recent access page - example: http://www.kristen.org/recent-access

Here are some Drupal AHAH Form examples using the Drupal 6 Form API and the wonderful AHAH Helper module. It's much easier creating AHAH forms with the AHAH Helper module than without using it.

Someone requested that I add functionality to my Drupal featured content block module to sort by the nodes that are the closest match to the node being viewed based on vocabulary terms. I did this, but then someone asked if I could integrate with views to allow for this same type of sorting. I thought maybe it could be done already, and sure enough, I was able to do it using views and the views group by module.

Make sure you are using a recent version of views (e.g. 6.x-2.8) and have installed & enabled the Views Group By module.

There are many ways to add Drupal related content blocks on your website. One easy way is to install the new featured content module:

Google provides a free keyword research tool to easily see what keyword phrases are popular. The tool is here:

These are good HTML validation tools to ensure your HTML is clean... clean HTML means better SEO (search engine optimization) and typically faster page loads.

You will get free DrupalCon SF tickets if you win this contest:

http://drupalmodules.com/articles/drupalcon-2010-ticket-contest

Thanks to NatureBridge for helping sponsor this module! If you like this module, please consider donating to the non-profit NatureBridge to help them continue connecting youth with the natural world.