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In this post, Pierre Far (@pierrefar) explains how to kick start a community using Twitter. Pierre recently launched a URL shortening service with analytics called Cligs (@cligs), and used Twitter to build a community around the service. Here are his notes from this experience.

Whether you’re a startup or an established company, your customers are probably on Twitter. And whether you like it or not, they’re going to complain and praise your company and products on Twitter. Let that sink in a for a second: they’re going to complain and praise your company and products in a very public forum. There is no escaping that your reputation can be, rightly or wrongly, negatively or positively affected because of a handful of tweets.

But I’m not here to scare you into creating a Twitter profile. What I’d like to do is tell you how wonderful an opportunity this is to engage with the Twitter community, in public, and win the hearts of this community.

How cool would it be to go around the world looking for cool things, writing about what you think is cool.........  It appears that's just what The Cool Hunter does and their website is a great source of inspiration for art, architecture, technology, fashion and design.

Use this link to apply for an account with Sagepay, the most popular payment gateway in the UK.  If you start to the application, we will help you any questions you have as some people have trouble answering everything required.  Sagepay is owned by Sage and costs are as follows:

• £20 per month for merchants processing up to 1,000 transactions per quarter
• 10p per transaction for merchants processing more than 1,000 transactions per quarter, with a minimum charge of £20 per month
• There are no set-up fees, no percentage fees and no annual charges

Ubercart adds e-commerce functionality to Drupal.  As standard it gives you a shopping cart, integration with popular payment gateways, stock control and all the common features of e-commerce.  You can see on this link that there are all manner of modules available which expand this functionality.  Full VAT support, gift vouchers, multi-seller marketplace, localised countries, currencies and delivery addresses - the list is long and, being one of only a handful of truly robust open source e-commerce carts, if there is some functionality that you need which doesn't already exist, we can create it for you.

We recommend Sagepay for e-commerce. They are the UK's largest payment gateway provider.

Out of stock notification for Ubercart

It uses ajax and jquery and asks the server for available stock and replaces the 'Add to cart' button with some configurable HTML.

It should be mostly Plug&Play except for the configuration of the replacement text.

Dislpay attributes type supported for AJAX validation:

• Select box
• Radio buttons

Dislpay attributes type NOT supported:

• Text field: This one is tricky, and I don't think it is hardly used anyway

This is a payment gateway for Ubercart that implements v2.23 of the Sage Pay Direct protocol, allowing Ubercart to accept credit card payments via Sage Pay. It can process 3D-Secure transactions ("Verified By Visa" / "MasterCard SecureCode").

Transaction types supported

• PAYMENT: Supported
• AUTHENTICATE/AUTHORIZE (beta)
• DEFERRED: Not supported

AUTHENTICATE/AUTHORIZE

Everything works almost exactly as a regular purchase except than when you configure the module to use AUTHENTICATE, once the transaction is authenticated, you have a button on the admin's order view so you can authorize the transaction.

3D-Secure

This module allows fine control over the Apply3DSecure component of the protocol via the workflow-ng (on Drupal 5.x) or Ubercart's Conditinal Actions module (on Drupal 6.x). You can use any of the Ubercart conditions to change this value. This module also exposes a new condition which let's you control whether to apply the action of setting the 3D-Secure flag depending of what card type was being used.

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Infomagnet

It creates a single node of a configurable content type for each term in a specific vocabulary.

In this way you can extend the term to hold any other information that a node (cck preferably) can hold. It's an useful module to create different category listings using views. This module prevent you to edit or delete the created node, handles updates and deletion of terms.

It also handles hierarchy by automatically assigning the vocabulary to the set content type and maintaining the hierarchy on the node as well.

It has some similarities to the Node Auto Term [NAT] module but by working two ways. The only thing this module does not support in comparison to NAT is to map node creation with term creation. This module can, as per its default, to map node operations with terms, meaning that if you delete the node, the term is also deleted as well.

This module extends the functionality of Nodewords so that certain meta tags can be specified on a per node type basis.

Features

• Support "robots" meta tag.
• Support "keywords" meta tag.
• Support "description" meta tag.
• It uses Token module allowing token replacements.
• It allows advanced PHP replacements for the "description" meta tag.

Note: You may want to look at Custom Tokens to define your own tokens.

Usage

• Enable the module
• Go to Administer -> Content types
• Edit any content type and look for the Meta tags node type field set.
• Configure any default keywords, description and robots for that content type.

Note: For each content type, if you fill in keywords, description or robots, those will be used in place of the nodewords global defaults, so bear in mind to include them in the content type meta tag node type fields if you need them as well.

Note: if you leave keywords and description empty, the nodewords global default will be used. However, for robots, you must specify a default, otherwise no robots will be displayed on that content type.

• (optional) If you need specific meta tags information for a node, check the override box on the node's Meta tags settings and fill the node's meta tags accordingly.

It gives the user the ability to create custom tokens using PHP code for specific replacements that can improve other modules relying on Token.

Advanced module, PHP code evaluation and execution

This module is designed for developers with, at least, a little PHP knowledge. Custom tokens will evaluate and execute PHP snippets in order to provide the replacements for the tokens you define.

Dependencies:
Token

Excerpt module allows you to enter a separate excerpt/summary/teaser for a node, which does not have to be a cut off version of the body.

Even though Drupal 6 provides similar functionality, Excerpt is useful for various reasons, for instance, when also using editors like TinyMCE.

This module has been abandoned in favor of Taxonomy Menu which does the same thing with more features.

It adds taxonomy terms to the menu system. This module depends on Pathauto if you are willing to build a proper hierarchy menu structure out of your taxonomy terms (if the taxonomy has hierarchy of course).

This module only works with Disabled and Single hierarchy vocabularies.

With this module, you can configure it in a way to show each term as a menu entry and display it any menu parent of your choice, meaning that you can create a menu and have it being the parent of your taxonomy menues, and then, have them displayed on a separate block rather than on navigation.

It depends on Pathauto in the way aliases are generated.

Note for Views users: taxonomy/term override

If you are using Views and have overridden the taxonomy/term, this module will detect that and use that view instead of the usual taxonomy page renderer.

Redefine a title pattern per content type using Tokens. Advanced PHP operation on node title is available as well.

This module is related to Title Rewrite and Page Title, with the difference that this only works for nodes and no theme modification is required, so title replacement is global to the selected theme.

Another similar module is Automatic Nodetitles. The difference with this module is mainly in functionality. Automatic Nodetitles hides the actual title field from the node creation form and let you configure a default title that will be stored as the actual node title in the database. This module does not change the actual title of the node, it just lets you modify the display of a node title when you view it.

This module came handy while trying different SEO approaches.

Configuration is done on a per node type basis on each node type settings page.

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