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Several major crawlers support a Crawl-delay parameter, set to the number of seconds to wait between successive requests to the same server. User-agent: * Crawl-delay: 10 Source: Wikipedia

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Understanding the Drupal lingo: Drupal glossary Adding and managing content: Content management in Drupal Taxonomy: Taxonomy: A way to organize content Drupal Taxonomy, Drupal Nodes And Other Terms – What Do They Mean? Drupal Taxonomy Tutorial Tag cloud: Using tags and tagclouds to describe your content in Drupal Photo gallery: How to make a photo [...]

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By default, FCKEditor textarea uses the same background image as your theme in Drupal. To remove the background image from the FCKEditor use default black text on white background so that it is easy to read/write inside the editable area, go to Edit FCKeditor profile (do this for all the profiles that you wish to [...]

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Introduction to Cron All about Linux DNS Mystery, NameServers, IP addresses DNS Resolver Hiding robots.txt How to show robots.txt only to bots Automatically back up your hard drive Technorati Tags: websites, www, server, web server, linux, unix, server maintenance, server administration

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Template monster is giving 40% off on selected templates throughout the weekend of December 20th to December 21st 2008. Hurry before this Christmas offer ends. Technorati Tags: templates, web templates, template monster, discount, christmas offer

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A FLAW has emerged in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser software which allows hackers to steal information from people’s PCs if they visit certain websites. Computer security experts only became aware of the issue when websites cropped up that were exploiting the flaw to steal user accounts for online gaming, which can then be sold [...]

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If you’re a blogger/follow blogs from Singapore, Malaysia, you’d know what Nuffnang is. But for those who don’t, Nuffnang is a blog advertising agency, or in their own words, Asia Pacific’s First Blog Advertising Community. Believe it or not, Nuffnang and I go a long way back. I am a regular blog reader for many [...]

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jQuery validation plugin – demo A simple form validation plugin (using jQuery) that checks that all required fields are filled in when a form is submitted. Recommended Books on jQuery jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers jQuery in Action Technorati Tags: jquery, javascript, plugin

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jQuery gallery plugin – demo An accessible gallery plugin (using jQuery) that replaces the main image and image heading on the fly when a thumbnail is clicked. The Previous and Next links as well as the current image position are updated automatically. Recommended Books on jQuery jQuery Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for jQuery Developers jQuery [...]

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