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New China Investment Website

I have split out the China content from the Herts Lettings website and loaded it into a new website, mingwei.co.uk. This now is my China property investment website.

It uses, Drupal, just like Herts Lettings. I loaded the SEO Checklist module, and the modules that it recommends, such as google sitemaps. It has the Printer-friendly pages module, as well as TinyMCE.

The last of these - a javascript html editor - is pretty cool, although it has strange effects on some linebreak filters.

The main improvement that I've made is to put in some proper navigation. What I never understood is that the Navigation menu is special - there is a block that can be used to display it in a way that cannot be replicated by any other menu. (There is no way to create a block that contains a specific named menu, that I have found).

Also there is a difference between a pure menu item and a page or story that is a leaf node. These display differently in navigation areas.

I still don't fully understand the operation of Primary and Secondary Links. The other odd thing is that a lot of administration links disappear when one logs out.

I am still learning about Drupal. I came very close to spending a lot of money on a web designer. I very much hope that Epsilis do the right thing when they start work on the Herts Lettings website.

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