Register.com has been offering free domain name registrations for quite some time. Note that the domain is free only for the first year. Before the end of first year, you have to transfer it to GoDaddy or such cheaper registrar since register.com is about 5 times more expensive. If you forget or ignore to transfer after the first year, you will be charged around $35 (per year). Below are some points to note:

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Pligg is an open source CMS (PHP/MySQL script) that you install on your web site to run a Digg like social bookmarking/voting system. There are 100s of sites that use Pligg as their site engine. However, we do not agree with Pligg marketing people regarding the usage of word ‘CMS’. Drupal is a CMS, Joomla is a CMS. Pligg? Hardly.

The latest version of Pligg is Beta 9.9. The official demo has been taken down. So here is our demo installation (front-end) for you.

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FreeGlobes (English version via Google) is a free PHP/mySQL links manager/directory/digg-like social bookmarking and voting script.

Current latest version: RC2

Official Demo

Its homepage, parts of the script and installation instructions in their wiki are in French and hence I thought a English version of its installation tutorial would be helpful.

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This is the fourth in the series of Creating a Web Site using Drupal. Here are the earlier ones: First, Second and Third.

Unlike earlier, this post is all text and doesn’t contain a screencast.

Moving Drupal from sub directory to root

Since I have had enough of sNews, I finally thought it is time to move my Drupal installation from /drupal to /. It was as simple as connecting via FTP and moving all the content of /drupal directory one level up. I made sure that I didn’t have index.php or index.html residing at / before you move. I went through some forum posts at drupal.org on what else I should be doing and saw that some have advised to modify the value of $base_url in sites/default/settings.php. I noticed that it’s commented out in my case and hence didn’t modify it.

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phpMyVisites is an open source (GNU/GPL) PHP/MySQL script for websites statistics and audience measurements. It gives a lot of information on websites visitors, visited pages, software/hardware utilization, etc.

Official Demo | Forum | Screenshot of my installation’s statistics page

Some of the significant features are:

• Security: Because security is a critical software element, phpMyVisites has maximum protection against intrusions and external attacks.
• Multiple Web Sites: Multiple web sites may be added. Each site will have precise and distinct statistics.
• Multi Users: Add an infinite number of users and manage permissions for each user (viewing and/or administration rights for certain sites).
• Receive web site statistics everyday by e-mail, by RSS feed, etc.

For the complete list, click here.

Installation is quite simple.

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