We stayed at this boutique hotel in Yerevan for 2 nights at the start of January 2014. This hotel is one of the best I have visited lately. It's truly a boutique hotel - apartments are clean and warm. The King size bed is awesome and Sateliite TV with more than 200 Russian (and not only) channels is all the traveler needs.The hotel offers a really nice feature - breakfast in the room. Fruits and water are for free + plus in your fridge, you…
Google AdSense is a popular platform for publishers to monetize their websites by displaying ads to their visitors. If you have a Drupal website and want to display Google AdSense ads in your views, there is a simple workaround that can help you achieve this goal.
In this article, we'll guide you through the steps to display Google AdSense ads in your Drupal views.
Step 1: Install and configure the AdSense module
The first step in…
Have you ever wondered where your website visitors are clicking on your pages? Knowing this information can help you make important design decisions, such as where to place ads for maximum impact. That's where the Click Heat Map for Drupal comes in!
To get started, you'll need to download both the ClickHeat module and library. Simply extract the module to the sites/all/modules directory and the library to the sites/all/libraries directory.…
An updated take on an article originally published in December 2013, with a note that unfortunately, most of the pictures from the original piece have been lost. However, new photos have been added to showcase the beauty of Tbilisi.
Experience the charm of Tbilisi on a leisurely bike ride, with perfect weather conditions of sunny and warm.
With only a couple of days left until the New Year's festivities, the picturesque scenes captured on this…
Bakuriani is a popular winter resort located in the heart of the Georgian mountains. Known for its scenic beauty, serene environment, and world-class skiing facilities, Bakuriani has become a popular tourist destination for winter sports enthusiasts from all over the world.
Despite its popularity, Bakuriani remains relatively unknown to the wider world.
However, the resort once applied to host the 2014 Winter Olympics and is considered by many…
I recently went on my first mountain biking excursion of the year on December 23rd.Although it wasn't a true mountain biking experience, I rode my bike along the streets of Tbilisi, crossing over the Mtkvari river on the Queen Tamar Mephe bridge and back.Here are some candid photos from my ride that showcase the city's streets and scenery.Apartment blocks in TbilisiNew skyscrapers been built in TbilisiTraffic jam in TbilisiTbilisi, December…
Drupal is a powerful content management system (CMS) that allows users to create and manage websites with ease. One of the features that make Drupal popular among users is its flexibility and extensibility. Drupal's module system allows users to add functionalities to their websites, including automatic watermarking of uploaded images.
If you are making photos and publicizing them to the internet - sooner or later you will find that you want to…
First snow appeared today on Tbilisi streets. Made some random photography of it.
Update: I have created much better quality Tbilisi winter photos. Read more: Tbilisi - Fairyland in Winter
Snow in Tbilisi
Its snowing on Tamar Mephe street
Police patrol in Tbilisi streets
Tbilisi Railway Station
Today I faced again some interesting thing to create - on hover image to change the background and display text over it
Here is how it looks:
On the left side, you can see the default image, while on the right side with mouse over. To achieve such behavior in Drupal is pretty simple, a little bit CSS and you are done.
Here is my view with div tags and Drupal fields:
<div class="image-hover">
[field_images]
<span class="image-…
Are you writing in different language than English, languages like Russian, Greek, Georgian, Hebrew or maybe Latvian? You find it's not attractive URL generated? In this article you will learn how to fix this using Drupal CMS and a neat module - Transliteration.
Take a look at these screenshots:
Here is Latvian URL in Chrome:
Chrome handles special characters nicely.
The same URL in Mozilla Firefox:
First problems detected - special…
Today, I encountered a problem that at first seemed like a pain, but in the end, turned out to be simpler than I thought. I needed to send a confirmation email to the submitter of a webform, letting them know that their email had been received, along with some plain text instructions.
A while back, I wrote about how to add a contact form to Drupal, and today I want to share with you how to send a confirmation email to the submitter.
This is…
Before proceeding with the upgrade, it's important to make a backup of your Drupal 6 site. This includes both the database and the files. This will ensure that you have a restore point in case anything goes wrong during the upgrade process.
Once you have made a backup, it's time to put your Drupal 6 site into maintenance mode. This will ensure that no users can access the site while you are upgrading. To do this, go to the site maintenance page…
In today's digital age, it is crucial for website owners to have a properly configured web server.
This not only ensures a smooth and seamless user experience but also protects the website from potential security threats.
One common issue that website owners face is incorrectly indexed links in search engines like Google. In this article, we will provide a simple guide on how to configure Nginx to display a 404 page for unconfigured domains…
Drupal is a powerful and flexible content management system that enables you to create visually appealing and engaging websites. One way to enhance the visual impact of your Drupal site is to add image hover effects to your thumbnails.
In this article, we'll explore how to use Drupal to create image hover effects for thumbnails.
Step 1: Install and Configure the Image Hover Effects Module
To create image hover effects for your Drupal…
Time by time, I like to experiment with food preparation, this time I decided to make a Dauphinoise potato, inspired by BBC Good Food recipe.
As it might happen, it happened this time as well - I didn't stick to BBC food preparation methodology.
What did I do?
I sliced potatoes, made a bechamel sauce. Took a pan, made the first layer with bechamel sauce, few rows with sliced potatoes, again bechamel sauce, salt, and pepper, again sliced…
Recently I started a tutorial series - How to build a Drupal site from scratch. In part 1 I'm talking about planing a site. In part 2, I'm showing how to make a subtheme from Bootstrap theme.
Before digging deeper in site customization, I'm willing to show how to tune a little bit up Drupal administrative tasks. By default (out of box) Drupal is not very user friendly for making admin related tasks. But it can be easily…
Recently I started a tutorial series - How to build a Drupal site from scratch. In part 1 I'm talking about planing a site. In this tutorial I'm giving a real example for building a tourism companies web site for real customer.
In part we learned that it's a wise to create a content type, which best describe products/services we gonna add (in our example tours).
So I have added few tours to our site:
As you can see from picture above, I'm…
Recently I started a new topic series - documentaries, where I publish documentaries I have watched and recommend to watch others. I write a brief description of what each documentary is, and then I embed a YouTube link to show a video on my blog.
How To Embed YouTube video in Drupal 8 (CKEDITOR)
But lately I started to think of creating my own Screen-casts, and the idea of embedding a video on content didn't satisfy me anymore.
What…
Upgrading a website can be a daunting task, especially if you're not familiar with the process. But upgrading your Drupal site is necessary for security, bug fixes, and new features. In this article, I'll be discussing the process of upgrading a Drupal 7.10 site to the newest version of Drupal, a minor upgrade.
Before you start, it's important to understand the difference between a major and a minor upgrade. A major upgrade, such as upgrading…
I first met Giorgi from Georgian fishing tours back at the end of 2013, when we did a fishing tour at Jandari lake organized by his company. I noticed a free fishing tour offer on their Facebook page. I claimed that offer and I was the lucky to actually get a free fishing tour. Make sure you follow their Facebook page as well - who knows, maybe more such offers will follow. If not - price for such tours are not very…
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