Command line Drupal install and update script for multi-site hosting

Maintaining a Drupal site, or a collection of sites is much easier if everything is kept completely separate--Drupal core, contributed modules, and the site itself.
This is even more important if multiple sites are hosted on the same server. Drupal's own multi-site support can be a nightmare to maintain, believe me! (e.g. when you want to upgrade modules or core).
A must simpler and easily supported configuration is to keep everything separate and to use symbolic links to tie it all together. For example, I keep:

Drup.org - Free Resources for Websites

Drup.org exists as a place for me to document the things that I have learned while building dynamic websites and hosting platforms.
My buisiness website may be found at: quadruple.ca - Enhanced, Dynamic Websites. Below are some of the sites that I have built:

Commercial websites

Websites for non-profits

Click here for Drupal Training Courses in Toronto

Useful Subversion Links

Drupal SEO Tips page

Misc Python Scripts

Here are some misc scripts.

Search Engine Optimization in Drupal 6

Drupal Modules

  • global redirect module
    • makes sure there is only one URL per page (gets rid of node/123 type URLs)
    • simply install—no configuration needed.
    • path_redirect module also needs to be used if you have old urls that you have changed but want to keep the old url address functioning
    • otherwise just make sure there are not multiple aliases for any pages using Site Building/URL aliases/list and sort on “system”

A truly beautiful Drupal site

Have a look at The Vintage Aviator if you want to see a really nice example of a website. Plus it is implemented in Drupal. The only negative comment I would have is that the page load time is rather slow, but that could be because the site has just come out and is getting a lot of coverage.
Here is a link to an article by the author on the story of how he build the site and what tools he used: http://drupal.org/node/267393

Collection of 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites

A great article can be found here: CMS Showcase: 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites which lists (as you may guess) 31 excellent sites.
It is great that an image of the home page of each site is posted, but it would have been even better if a few words were said about each site, particularly what makes them "remarkable".

CMS Evaluation recommends Drupal

The article Selecting an Open Source Content Management Solution Using Web 2.0 to Drive Online Sales compares four systems: Drupal, Alfresco, Joomla, and Liferay. There is a chart that evaluates their strengths and weaknesses. The choice was made to go with Drupal, and the article describes how this led to a successful implementation.

Colour test page

Regular colours

  • e.g. red is #FFxxxx; where xx varies from 00 through to FF
Colour 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 FF
Red                                  
Green                                  
Blue                                  
Cyan                                  
Magenta                                  
Yellow                                  
Grey/2                                  
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