What makes a Drupal expert? After recently passing a Drupal Test on Elance, and getting a score placing us in the Top 1% of all the developers on their site, I’ve been thinking. What does it mean to be a Drupal expert?
The Elance test was rather simple and I don’t think it truly tested whether we as a company are Drupal Experts or not. Their test was all about usability and had very little to do about custom Drupal programming.
Being an expert in Drupal takes time. It’s something that doesn’t come from reading a book alone. It comes from time spent learning about Drupal, and time spent using Drupal. (more…)
The pathauto module makes it possible to automatically generate Search Engine friendly URLs. The Global Redirect module makes it so requests are always redirected to the pathauto generated URL alias. This is important to avoid duplicate content. The token module, helps in generating search engine friendly urls. One trick to using Pathauto, is you want to update the pathauto settings so that if you change your page title, it doesn’t change the auto generated url. This is the “Update Action” setting. It should be set to “Do Nothing. Leave the old alias intact.” 
