Squidoo Eats Bandwidth

Warning! Squidoo Lenses Eats Download Usage

Let me start by saying I am a Squidoo fan. It may improve with time, but at the time of this writing (Sep/Oct 09), I have found that working/accessing Squidoo lenses (articles) can eat a lot of your (allowable) download allowance. I will tell you what first alerted me to this and why I think if you use Squidoo, you should at least be aware of some of these findings.

About the Aggregator Module

Drupal's Aggregator module helps you get fresh content (RSS feeds) from other sites and places it, in summary form, on your site. It is pretty cool and powerful module if you want to get fresh automated content for your Drupal site.

With this module, you can:
* add, edit, and/or delete feeds (RSS content from another site)
* decide how often those feeds are updated
* group them into similar categories

RSS Enable (i.e. Syndicate) your Drupal site

I said in "RSS Made Simple" to replace the word "syndicate" (or any variations of that root word) with "subscribe" (especially if you are an RSS user/reader and not a publisher) to get a quicker, better understanding of RSS. But here, you are in the role of a "publisher" - someone who has a Drupal site and would like visitors to subscribe to your site's contents via an RSS feed.

RSS - Simply Easy

RSS is something that has befuddled me for a long while and I had successfully ignored it. Don't think me lazy just because I was successful in the attempt. Coz I did read it about it. Quite a few times. And each time, I became more determined to ignore it ... for as long as I could.

Writing the First Squidoo Article

My First Squidy Lens

This is a little guide to help you write your first Squidoo lens. Not the content coz only you are the real genius at that. But the how-tos .. coz as I am discovering, there are a number of ways to go. I love easy, so I will be on the lookout for that.

Heading on Specials page

The original (default) text on your osc is "Get Them While They're Hot!"

You might want to change this to your own preferred text. To do this:

Quantity Discount Module

Again, in my search to find a suitable osc add-on to create sale (discounts) and/or store credit for customers, I came across this "Quantity Discount" module. After a day of mind-numbing reading and checking and forum-chasing, I installed this module because I think it can do the following for me:

Coupon

Gift Vouchers/Discount Coupons for RC1, should also work on RC2 and RC2a , Version 1.2

I needed some way to either have Sales and/or provide store credit to my customers (like when they accidentally overpaid. The store credit would allow them to have the correct amount deducted off their next purchase.