Drupal Monday

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Drupal Tips Monday: Install Drupal the Easy Way

Posted by Jonathan
March 23, 2009

If you’re new to Drupal, simply installing it can be an intimidating proposition. Especially if you don’t know your SQL server from your FTP. If you don’t want to mess about doing all the hard work of installing a basic installation of Drupal, then let someone else do it for you.
This tool is not very [...]

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Drupal Tips Monday: When to use Drupal?

Posted by Jonathan
March 12, 2009

I get this question a lot: When should you use Drupal over other content management systems such as Wordpress?
The only easy answer is: it depends.
To understand why, let’s explore a few things about Wordpress and Drupal.
Wordpress
Wordpress is a fantastically flexible blogging platform. It looks great, has a strong backend and is very easy to use.
Wordpress [...]

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Drupal Tips Monday - Moderating Content

Posted by Jonathan
March 9, 2009

I run a couple Drupal websites that rely on user submissions to fill the site with content. As spammers discovered the site though, it became clear that I was going to have to moderate all incoming posts so that garbage didn’t get automatically posted.
I also like to control when content gets published so that it [...]

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Drupal Monday: Clearn URLs in Drupal and Godaddy

Posted by Jonathan
February 23, 2009

I like Go Daddy. I know many others out there would rather get their teeth pulled than deal with them, but they’ve worked out all right for me. That may change in the future.
Despite a good relationship with GoDaddy, sometimes things can be a little maddening. Like when you try to turn on Clean URL’s [...]

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Drupal Tips Monday: 5 Modules You Need After Installing Drupal

Posted by Jonathan
February 16, 2009

Drupal is a very powerful CMS out of the box but the core basic installation lacks some key features that you’re probably going to need to take your Drupal site to the next level.
Here’s a quick list of five Drupal modules you should install and learn how to use.
Google Analytics Drupal Module
This module is simple [...]

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Drupal Tips Monday: Make CCK Nodes Look a Little Prettier

Posted by Jonathan
February 9, 2009

Being inexperienced with the ways of PHP and hardcore Drupal modification, I needed to do one simple thing, make my CCK node title all H3 headers.
It took lots of head banging to figure this out.
There are Drupal modules that can supposedly template a CCK node, such as Contemplate. After days of messing with it, [...]