With modules like CCK and Views developers rapidly create solutions with little custom module development. What if you need to deploy the same configuration of content types and views on multiple sites? The following example takes the power of the Views and CCK to create a sort of mashup module packaging your views and content type. I find this helpful time saver when having to repeat the same configuration on multiple sites.

You may have a website packed with great information although if search engine spiders can't crawl your site, your results may show up lower in the results listings, or not at all. A properly configured robots.txt is one key that can help make sure your site is properly crawled and help boost your search engine ranking. Some module configurations can cause the crawling of improper results, duplication, or endless looping.

Heres a listing of the top 20 ugliest websites still living on the Internet. I can't believe that these sites were never removed or redesigned. Number 19 claims to be a web design company. Go figure. There are probably more, but I got a kick out of this listing.

• Ugliest Websites Collection

I needed a tool to load test a website I was working on that I knew was going to have a large amount of traffic. In the past I used Apache Benchmark, but I needed a little bit more extensive load testing plan. I found JMeter to be great solution that is quite powerful and extensible, although it has somewhat of a learning curve. I followed the basic directions in the JMeter documentation and created a basic load test for X number of simultaneous connections.