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The installer of the XPS Annotator created using Inno-Setup. Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs created by Jordan Russell.

Since using the Inno-Setup, the installer of the XPS Annotator accepts optional command line parameters. These very useful to system administrators, and to other programs calling the XPS Annotator setup.

You can read the Setup Command Line Parameters if interested with this features.

Danland was released about four months ago, but now on the first page at Drupal.org themes directory. Not bad for a newcomer, right? :)

Until when this article was written, Danland been used more than 1800 sites. But this calculation is not one hundred percent correct because this is only calculated for sites that turn-on the Update Status module, so the users of the theme must be more than that.

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To separate between personal and business, then Danang Probo Sayekti as the creator and developer of the XPS Annotator create a personal website, so he is free to speak whatever he wants.

Of course it is not relevant when talking here about personal, other news that is not related to the XPS Annotator, or XPS technology in general.

Visit Danang Probo Sayekti official site.

A few days ago there was something quite startling, I got a PageRank 8 for one of my site. This happened after my hosting do maintenance on their servers, and my website can not be accessed during one to two days.

Looks like when the site could not be accessed, the Google's spiders redirected to a site that has a high PageRank. In a few days or weeks would all go back to normal PageRank again.

But has a PageRank 8 is awesome, even it's fake :).

Minimalist is the most simple and minimalist theme I ever created. It only consist of two column layout, table-less, and has a fixed width layout.

This minimalist theme is very easy to customize, you can learn how Drupal theme work by studying this simple theme.

Minimalist theme complete features:

• Two column layout
• Tableless design for SEO
• Fixed width layout

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Simpler is my first Drupal theme, created in February 18, 2010. To get a CVS account, I submit this theme to the Drupal community. First it use table but when final release I convert it to table-less design.

This theme was inspired by CNET Download.com, but I just take a bit of style from CNET website, which is the upper part of theme and the footer region.

Simpler is simple and clean Drupal theme, designed for cross-browser compatibility; tested in Firefox, IE 6, IE 7, IE 8, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome.

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I think my decision to become a freelance Drupal developer and themer about one month ago is very timely decision. There are two kinds of rates that I charge to my clients, hourly rate and fixed rate.

For hourly rate, I charged when a client requires only small things like adding or fixing the CSS, create a simple form and others small things. My current hourly rates is $45, can be more in the future :). For fixed rate, I switch to this kind of rate type when my clients need a big projects, yes like creating a custom theme, creating a site etc.

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It has become the hallmark of Drupal if the search submit button is located on the right side. The search on Drupal actually can be made arbitrarily, submit button on the left side and it can be replaced with pictures.

We will give you a tutorial to change the look of the search form on Drupal. Here are the steps to create your own custom search for your Drupal theme:

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The best place to promote your capabilities as a Drupal developer and themer is at Drupal.org. Yes, maybe it was irrelevant to make money from open source software such as Drupal, but what we sell is our time.

We get paid to create a custom module, custom theme or creating a site and it requires quite a long time depending on how hard would it, and time is money right? :)

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A few days ago I finally decided to try to put Google Adsense on some of my sites. Curious because Google Adsense is one opportunity to earn income on the internet, so at least I can learn how it works.

For installation is very easy, we just simply paste the code supplied by Google. The most difficult is to get enough traffic, so the possibility of visitors clicking on ads on our website will be greater.

I found an interesting facts related to the XPS document on Sharepoint, you can read the issue here. He is using Microsoft XPS Viewer to open and digitally signs an XPS document but he found the following facts:

• XPS documents are not signed while the signing process has been done before.
• The XPS document is locked on a server.
• All document properties (metadata) are set to its default values.

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Beginning this June, there were rumors that Google will update the PageRank in late June or early July. A good news for webmasters all over the world. Personally, we are also curious about how WEUS.Net will get the PageRank, our website is still very young, yes despite the fact that these domains have been around more than five years ago, but we owned this domain only since a few weeks ago.

Previously WEUS.Net is already deleted from the Registrar, and we were lucky no one enrolled the domain again until we found it. If not mistaken this domain is deleted around the December 2009, previous owner of this domain parked the WEUS.Net at SEDO.

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After preparing for two and three months, now Danetsoft finally been able to provide services such as custom design and web development for Drupal. And to further convince the new client, I created a few themes that can be used free of charge at Drupal.org.

The development of my new business is quite exciting, just a few weeks of opening, now I already have several new clients. Many positive effects that I get after contributing on Drupal.org, for example is getting a free backlinks.

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A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to create custom themes for Drupal with worth 2000 USD. A hefty price for making a theme only, for the design of these themes has been prepared by my client in the form of PSD files.

I accepted the offer at a cheap price because in the days to come it seems we have decided to become a partner, why I said cheap? because the design desired by my clients is quite complicated, of course this is a consequence should I receive to acquire new partners.

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Prior to select the module or theme, there is much to consider. One who deserves to consider is the amount of usage of the module or theme we want to use, more and more users the more visible the quality of the modules or themes we wish to use, but you have to remember, many users it has not been definitely better than those that have fewer users.

In Drupal, there is a module in its development objective is to examine the module or theme installed on a website, this module name is the Update Status module. But the Update Status module does not know the status of any module or theme that was not installed via a tarball produced by Drupal.org.

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Currently I manage multiple websites simultaneously, yes all of the website is a tool that I use for promoting the software I have created. Indeed not all of it is a tool of promotion, there is one website which is a reminder tool. Reminder tool? What does this mean? From the record everything booked, I prefer to record everything on the website.

Below are websites that until today still managed by me:

• Danetsoft: The center of all the business that I run on the internet. From software to web development services.

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Danland is my third theme that I contributed to Drupal.org, and when this article was created, Danland is the most popular theme I have ever made. Danland was inspired by one of website design by Maksimer.

At first release, Danland not include features such as image slideshow, superfish menu and pngFix. And at the next versions, I integrate the jQuery plugins to add functionality to Danland.

In less than two months, Danland already used more than 1000 websites. Here are the features of Danland:

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As a software developer, is a regular thing if the software we've made were hijacked by irresponsible people. This happened on my latest software, Split XPS Merge.

Of course there are disappointment feelings, but it is a consequence of the work I do now. I know this fact approximately one week after the software was released, though the price of the Split XPS Merge only $ 24.9.

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To facilitate the development of a theme, sometimes we need a starter theme for accelerating the development process, especially if we have a limited time. With a starter theme, the development will be much easier because of existing frameworks.

There are several starter themes that are available at Drupal.org and all are worthy to try. Here are those themes:

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A few days ago we redirect one of our old website to new website, to do this redirection we just write some lines of code in our .htaccess file, what we want here is a permanent redirection with code 301. Below is the code to redirect your old domain to your new domain:

  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain.com$ [OR]
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-domain.com$
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http\:\/\/www\.new-domain\.com\/$1" [R=301,L]

With the above code, you had redirected the old domain without www and with www to your new domain, and also its contents. So if in your old website has about.html page then it will redirected to your new website, and to avoid 404 file not found error message, you should creating about.html page too in your new website.

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