Blog Archive: December 2013

Get Insights into Your Site Visitors' Engagement with the Click Heat Map for Drupal

Have you ever wondered where your website visitors are clicking on your pages? Knowing this information can help you make important design decisions, such as where to place ads for maximum impact. That's where the Click Heat Map for Drupal comes in!

To get started, you'll need to download both the ClickHeat module and library. Simply extract the module to the sites/all/modules directory and the library to the sites/all/libraries directory.



Next, follow the simple installation instructions:


Download the latest ClickHeat release from http://www.labsmedia.com/clickheat
Extract the library and place it in the sites/all/libraries directory. The click.php file should be located at sites/…

Drupal Development |

Discovering Tbilisi by Bike - A Timeless Journey Amidst New Year's Celebrations

An updated take on an article originally published in December 2013, with a note that unfortunately, most of the pictures from the original piece have been lost. However, new photos have been added to showcase the beauty of Tbilisi.

Experience the charm of Tbilisi on a leisurely bike ride, with perfect weather conditions of sunny and warm.

With only a couple of days left until the New Year's festivities, the picturesque scenes captured on this journey will transport you to a timeless world, seemingly untouched by the approaching celebrations.

Living in Georgia |

Bakuriani: Your Next Winter Sports Destination in Georgia

Bakuriani is a popular winter resort located in the heart of the Georgian mountains. Known for its scenic beauty, serene environment, and world-class skiing facilities, Bakuriani has become a popular tourist destination for winter sports enthusiasts from all over the world.

Despite its popularity, Bakuriani remains relatively unknown to the wider world.

However, the resort once applied to host the 2014 Winter Olympics and is considered by many to be an ideal location for the games.

Bakuriani is situated at an altitude of over 1,800 meters and is surrounded by majestic mountain peaks. The resort boasts of some of the best ski slopes in the region, with a variety of runs for skiers of all…

Living in Georgia |

Exploring Tbilisi on Two Wheels: A Journey Through the City's Streets with a Mountain Bike (2013)

I recently went on my first mountain biking excursion of the year on December 23rd.Although it wasn't a true mountain biking experience, I rode my bike along the streets of Tbilisi, crossing over the Mtkvari river on the Queen Tamar Mephe bridge and back.Here are some candid photos from my ride that showcase the city's streets and scenery.Apartment blocks in TbilisiNew skyscrapers been built in TbilisiTraffic jam in Tbilisi​Tbilisi, December 23rdDoes it look like a Christmas?My newly acquired mountain bikeI bought this bike at Kidobani marketMtkvari river in Tbilisi

Living in Georgia |

How to automatically add watermarks to uploaded images in Drupal

Drupal is a powerful content management system (CMS) that allows users to create and manage websites with ease. One of the features that make Drupal popular among users is its flexibility and extensibility. Drupal's module system allows users to add functionalities to their websites, including automatic watermarking of uploaded images.

If you are making photos and publicizing them to the internet - sooner or later you will find that you want to protect them somehow.

Protect yourself from people stealing your artwork and re-publishing pictures in other places. One way to protect images is to add watermarks. Well, it doesn't mean someone still won't steal your pictures, but at least your…

Drupal Development |

Image hover effects - how to change background on mouse over

Today I faced again some interesting thing to create - on hover image to change the background and display text over itHere is how it looks:On the left side, you can see the default image, while on the right side with mouse over. To achieve such behavior in Drupal is pretty simple, a little bit CSS and you are done.Here is my view with div tags and Drupal fields:<div class="image-hover">
[field_images]
<span class="image-overlay ">Read Full Article</span>
</div>
And here is CSS:.image-hover {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
background: #000;
line-height: 0px;
}

#image-hover:hover img {
opacity:0.3;
filter:alpha(opacity=30);

}
.image-hover span.image-…

Drupal Development |

Drupal pathauto + transliteration

Are you writing in different language than English, languages like Russian, Greek, Georgian, Hebrew or maybe Latvian? You find it's not attractive URL generated? In this article you will learn how to fix this using Drupal CMS and a neat module - Transliteration.

Take a look at these screenshots:

Here is Latvian URL in Chrome:



Chrome handles special characters nicely.

The same URL in Mozilla Firefox:



First problems detected - special characters have been converted to %C%4 - not nice.

And here is IE:



Yes, IE cannot handle them either,

The good news are - the URL will be shown nice in Google search in all browsers: Take a look at this screen made on IE.



In case you are …

Drupal Development |