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Living in Georgia

Get Your Broken Laptop Hinges Fixed with Amazon: A Guide for Expats in Georgia

In Georgia, it's challenging to find good and affordable electronics, and repairing items can seem like a daunting task. If your laptop breaks, the common response is to take it to Laptop Center, or "Leptopi Centri" as it's known locally, located on Uznadze street in Tbilisi.

While they have been of help to me in the past three years, I've found their prices to be on the high side, with a flat rate of 100 GEL (~$57) for most services. What's…

Drupal & Servers

How To Display Image Galleries with Thumbnails on Drupal with Flex Slider

Recently, I faced a challenge while trying to display image galleries on a Drupal-powered website.

While there are a few modules that you can use to build your gallery view, such as the Views Slideshow Gallery module, I recently discovered some Drupal-powered sites using the Flex Slider library.

Excited by this new discovery, I tried to create a gallery with thumbnails, but unfortunately, it didn't work out as expected. However, I eventually…

Living in Georgia

Cycling in Tbilisi: Marjanishvili - Ortachala

Left Embankment of Mtkvari is one of the longest asphalt pavement cycling distances in city of Tbilisi - it stretches from Didube to Ortochala (passing Tbilisi Old Town). It is among the easiest routes as well. In today's Tbilisi cycling series post I'll share some photos from  Marjanishvili to Ortachala ride, you will see interesting and beautiful views with buildings next to river Mtkvari. Make sure you check out…

Drupal & Servers

How to Create a Stunning Masonry Front Page in Drupal: A Step-by-Step Guide

Creating a Drupal masonry front page can be an effective way to showcase your website's content in a visually appealing way.

Masonry layouts are popular for their ability to display content in an organized and dynamic manner, allowing users to easily navigate and explore your website.

In this tutorial, we'll guide you through the steps to create a Drupal masonry front page. 



Step 1: Install and enable the Masonry module

To begin, you'…

Drupal & Servers

How to Use Drupal Web Widgets Module to Embed Custom Content on External Websites

Drupal is a popular and powerful open-source content management system (CMS) that provides a wide range of tools and features to create and manage content on websites. One of the most useful tools in Drupal is the Widgets module, which allows users to create and embed custom content on their websites and other external sites. In this article, we will explore how to use the Drupal Widgets module to embed content on other websites.

The Drupal Web…

Drupal & Servers

Displaying Node Counts in Drupal: How to Show the Number of Nodes Referencing Each Item

In Drupal, it is common to use the Node Reference field to create relationships between different content types. This field allows you to reference a node from another content type and create a link between the two. However, displaying the number of nodes referencing each item in a node reference field can be challenging.

In this article, we'll explore a few ways to display the node count per node reference field in Drupal.

Option 1: Using…

Drupal & Servers

Custom Drupal Search Built with Search API + Database Search + Views

The default Drupal search function is pretty much OK, but if you are looking for ways to control and extend search behavior  - you are stuck with the default out-of-the-box search. 

I'll show you how you can boost your search functionality, by using just two (OK, three modules)

Download the following modules:


Search API module
Search API DB


Download and extract them into the sites/all/modules folder

Enable…

Armenia

Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia

Etchmiadzin Cathedral is considered the oldest cathedral in the world. The original church was built in the early fourth century between 301 and 303 according to tradition by Armenia's patron saint Gregory the Illuminator, following the adoption of Christianity as a state religion by King Tiridates III. I had a chance to visit this holy site at start of 2014, a harsh winter was in Yerevan and affected…

Hotel reviews

Boutique hotel Meg - Yerevan, Armenia

We stayed at this boutique hotel in Yerevan for 2 nights at the start of January 2014. This hotel is one of the best I have visited lately. It's truly a boutique hotel - apartments are clean and warm. The King size bed is awesome and Sateliite TV with more than 200 Russian (and not only) channels is all the traveler needs.The hotel offers a really nice feature - breakfast in the room. Fruits and water are for free + plus in your fridge, you…

Drupal & Servers

A Simple Workaround to Display AdSense Ads in Drupal Views

Google AdSense is a popular platform for publishers to monetize their websites by displaying ads to their visitors. If you have a Drupal website and want to display Google AdSense ads in your views, there is a simple workaround that can help you achieve this goal.

In this article, we'll guide you through the steps to display Google AdSense ads in your Drupal views. 

Step 1: Install and configure the AdSense module

The first step in…

Drupal & Servers

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.…

Living in Georgia

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…

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…

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…

Drupal & Servers

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…

Living in Georgia

Tbilisi First Snow

First snow appeared today on Tbilisi streets. Made some random photography of it.

Update: I have created much better quality Tbilisi winter photos. Read more: Tbilisi - Fairyland in Winter



Snow in Tbilisi



Its snowing on Tamar Mephe street



Police patrol in Tbilisi streets



Tbilisi Railway Station

Drupal & Servers

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 it

Here 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-…

Drupal & Servers

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…

Drupal & Servers

Drupal: Sending Confirmation Emails from Your Webform

Today, I encountered a problem that at first seemed like a pain, but in the end, turned out to be simpler than I thought. I needed to send a confirmation email to the submitter of a webform, letting them know that their email had been received, along with some plain text instructions.

A while back, I wrote about how to add a contact form to Drupal, and today I want to share with you how to send a confirmation email to the submitter.



This is…

Drupal & Servers

How To Upgrade Drupal 6 to Drupal 7: Step by Step

Before proceeding with the upgrade, it's important to make a backup of your Drupal 6 site. This includes both the database and the files. This will ensure that you have a restore point in case anything goes wrong during the upgrade process.

Once you have made a backup, it's time to put your Drupal 6 site into maintenance mode. This will ensure that no users can access the site while you are upgrading. To do this, go to the site maintenance page…

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