Matt Young

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By utilising the open source content management system Drupal I can design, develop and maintain your website and content to ensure that you have relevant content that is helpful to visitors to your site.

What your site contains depends upon what you want your website to achieve. The website needs to be customised to your organisation so it is recognised as your brand. Of course your site needs to rank well with search engines if people are going to find it.

My next adventure

Submitted by Matt Young on Fri, 10/02/2009 - 15:52.

About 6 months I made the big decision to take the plunge and start my own veterinary hospital. Little did I know, just how many forms and red tape busting that would take.

But all that is just about over now and things are happening at a fast pace. My new hospital will be opening very soon and I've just finished building the practice website- well for now anyway.

Jump on over to www.companionanimalvet.com.au and have a look at what we're doing.

Adding a cookie to allow a visitor from mobile device to continue along on the main website instead of the mobile multisite

Submitted by Matt Young on Tue, 12/02/2008 - 23:15.

In my previous post (http://www.mattyoung.com.au/automatic-mobile-device-detection-drupal) I outlined a method using php in the settings.php file to get a drupal 5 multisite to detect a mobile device and redirect the user to the mobile subdomain site but then if they want to visit the main site, they need to be able to view it. The method outlined in that post allows the user to view the requested page on the main site but when they try and access another page they will then be redirected back to the mobile subomain. In order to allow them to continue to navigate in the main domain you need to set a cookie which indicates that they want to view the main domain not just the mobile site.

Automatic mobile device detection in drupal.

Submitted by Matt Young on Sun, 11/30/2008 - 14:30.

I have previously set-up automatic device detection for mobile devices for a domain so thought I would document how I did it here as I had alot of trouble finding information on how to do it. I had considered using the accessability module but it didn't really do what I wanted and seems far too complex. I think this way is much easier!

The basic setup

First of all the main domain is a drupal 5 site. For the mobile site I decided to use drupal multisites and a subdomain. So basically the mobile site is a completely different site.

Going mobile

Submitted by Matt Young on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 23:07.

I have just finished creating a new mobile site for Crown St Veterinary Hospital. After pondering over several possible ways to go I eventually decided to create a whole new site in a subdomain- m.crownvet.com.au

Website hosting

Submitted by Matt Young on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 08:33.

So you have your domain name, now what do you do? You now need a server somewhere to store the information that is contained in your website. Here you have 2 options: