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Setup Entity Translation the right way

2014-11-27
This article contains a detailed instruction on how to setup the Entity Translation module for Drupal 7 websites.
Entity Translation is part of Drupal 8 core and its approach is to translate fields instead of full nodes/entities.

Goal of this tutorial is to set up a multilingual website that can be navigated in multiple languages by visitors and to enable the content to be easily manageable by editors / cms administrators.
To get multilingual right, it’s critical that you configure your content-types and fields with care and precision and upfront, because if content is already in your database it is almost impossible to change these configurations.
So let's go.

Maps and mapping tools in Drupal (under construction)

2013-04-09
Just few years ago Google Maps was the only option to go for. A big disadvantage is that a lot of 'smart' things happens on Google's side. Therefore it was difficult to really engage location information about users and content on your Drupal site.
Nowdays (2013) things has changed. You can do all your location thingies in and with Drupal and OpenSource. In this (series of) post(s) I'll try to inform you about my ride through Drupal mapping.