Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress
Monday, May 10th, 2010Some of the most useful modules are those that help with creating content on your site. These
include the TinyMCE module (WYSIWYG editor) and the Image and Image Assist modules (for
image galleries and in-line images in posts)
The Flexinode module allows you to define your own data types (node types), complete
with fields of varying types. The data collected with your defined node types can be shown in
table form with sortable columns to facilitate searching.
The Event and Location modules can be used alone or in tandem to attach time and place
information to any node type. Combined with the Flexinode module, the Event and Location
modules allow you to create custom events calendars that not only track events, but also offer
location information based on zip codes and geocoding, as well as deep linking to mapping
services.
DRUPAL Beginner’s Guide
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010Drupal is a content management, web application framework and
blogging engine. It is used by many high-traffic websites, including the
The Onion, Spread Firefox, Ourmedia, Kernel Trap and the New York
Observer. It is particularly popular for building online communities, and
has the tag line “Community plumbing”. Drupal is written in PHP.
Drupal has a basic layer, or core, which supports pluggable modules
enable additional behaviors. The modules available for Drupal provide a
wide assortment of features, including e-commerce such as the Amazon
Items module, work-flow, photo galleries, maiing list management and
CVS integration
The Complete Guide To Drupal SEO
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010First, let me thank you for purchasing this exciting new guide on how to optimize your
site Drupal websites for search engine optimization. I really appreciate that.
In this book, we will look at what Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is, and the ways in
which it can be used. Through this book, we will provide you with the basics on using
Search Engine Optimization in order to improve traffic flow to your site.
By many people, SEO is considered to be a part of search engine marketing. It is often
used when people are describing a process for improving the amount of traffic that goes
to a website from various different search engines. Many site owners will engage in
using SEO in an attempt to obtain qualified visitors to their site. The quality of these
visitors will often be measured by what specific keywords they are using in order to
reach the desired result they want, such as making a purchase, or it could just viewing
or downloading a particular page on that site. It may be that the visitor just requests
some further information, or they sign up to a newsletter.
Quick installation guide for Drupal 7
Monday, March 15th, 2010This quick installation guide contains brief instructions for installing Drupal 7 on a typical .nix web
server. The instruction include commands that can be run from the command line. Every step
contains a link to more detailed installation instructions. There you find instructions on installing
Drupal on other systems.
Optimizing Drupal Performance
Monday, March 15th, 2010This paper presents the results of performance benchmarks for comparing several common PHP runtime
environments and configurations. The application used for benchmarking is Drupal, the open source social
publishing platform.
Tested runtime environments included plain PHP, Zend Server (www.zend.com/products/server), and open-
source optimizers, such as APC and WinCache.
For the purpose of this benchmark, a simple Drupal-based website was set up and tested in various commonly
used Windows and Linux configurations
Using Drupal: A Web Experience
Monday, March 15th, 2010Report Summary
The Drupal content management system (CMS) has gained a reputation for being a developer-
centric platform that is difficult to use. While Drupal does have usability issues, the overall
conclusion of this report is that the tools Drupal provides to accomplish the most common
administrative tasks associated with managing a website are all usable.
This report is divided into two areas of study: a usability guideline review and the stakeholder
review of Drupal usability.
The usability guideline review evaluates how well Drupal’s administrative tools adhere to a
subset of the Research-Based Web Design & Usability Guidelines1 that are specific to web-
based forms. Each of the forms Drupal provides to accomplish common administrative tasks
was examined individually to determine if they:
• Distinguish clearly and consistently between required and optional data entry fields
• Detect errors automatically
• Minimize user data entry
• Label data entry fields clearly
• Place labels in close proximity to data entry fields
• Label form buttons clearly
• Allow users to see their entered data
• Use radio buttons and checkboxes correctly
• Group data entry by method type
• Maintain proper tab indexing in forms
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