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Recently, I found a special offer for refurbished Samsung N150 laptop on Dixon website. Normally, this laptop is selling around £200-£220 and they sell it for £120 only. Although these Dixon refurbished latops are those returned by customer within 14 days return, it has been checked and refurbished with 12 months warranty like the new one. Also, considering 40% discount from normal price, it's certainly a bargain. I bought one at 3am morning and went to sleep. After I woke up at 10am, I checked the website, it was all gone.

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After some swimming in GYM today, it's nothing better than sitting on a big sofa. Have a cup of hot tea and enjoy reading the DailyMail newspaper. More than that, I learned a few marketing tricks.

1. News from Harrod regarding their "the 1bn sales". The sales assistant was awarded a luxury holiday.

http://www.retailgazette.co.uk/articles/23410-harrods-reaches-1bn-sales-target-early

First, let me say, it's not real. I find it funny because Jobs are much richer than the Dragons. It's like the rich daddy asks for a few coins from poor kids on street. Also, the video is made by BBC. They certainly have a good sense of humour too or they may be upset for the fact that Ipad sold for much higher price (30% higher) than it's in US.

We download and use ready made theme from drupal. However, if you want to look more professional or you don't want people knowing which theme you are using from the source code.

When you make a new theme, modify the "theme names" in the following files. I used theme "acquia_marina" as an example:

• acquia_marina.info
• style.css
• layout.css
• template.php

Basically, whenever you find the text "acquia_marina", replace it to "your_prefer_theme_name"

Because of SPAMS, you may prefer to read the comment posts first before they are published. 

By default, drupal VBO does not have a function to bulk publish comments. It means you have to publish one by one after you click "edit". It is a real pain if you have many comments to publish. (see picture below). 

Recently, I help a charity to find a web hosting company for the new website I designed for them. 

Because it's a charity, I try to look for the cheapest possible hosting package. At the end, my intention for saving some money for them becomes a nightmare,but I learned a lot and decide to write something here. 

If your website runs on drupal, it demands a reasonable hardware resource and technology. Here are several things you must check with your webhosting providers before you commit

"生命不是在乎得到了什麼 而是做過了什麼"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ymAPmom-lc&feature=related

This short video from Think Vitamin Membership  is about how to design a homepage with FOCUS. How to make sure customers understand the "core advantage" of your products without distracting by other things ?

The common approach is to put as much info / links on the homepage with the hope that users click the links and learn more about the products. Eventually, users would be interested in the products, sign up or buy the application.