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Google Starts to Prioritize Mobile

If you haven’t already heard Google Search has announced that it will now prioritize mobile-friendly search results on mobile searches over other results. This means that if Google has detected that your website is not mobile friendly then your sites search results end up at the bottom of the pile in comparison to other results. Tragically, this also means reaching less people who are using tablet or mobile devices.

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Integrating time fields in Views exposed filter in Drupal

On our latest project for McGill University’s Community Engagement Day we wanted to find a better way for event times to be entered and searched for by people using the site. We discovered timefield which provides a beautiful API alongside a timepicker widget that is missing from the regular Date field. What was missing was a proper integration into a views exposed filter field in order for the widget to appear. We’ll show you how we did this!

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Theme Integration

Creating a movable popup

Have you ever wondered how some websites manage to create popup that appears half-way down the page to provide information? It’s a lot easier than you

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System Administration

Installing ApacheSolr on Ubuntu

You aren’t alone I had to scower the internet and read several articles before I truly understand all of this. If you are using Debian/Ubuntu (with Tomcat7) it’s even easier then most outline. I preferred this over Lullabot since when you install it through Ubuntu it’s actually a service and less fiddling

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