Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Some 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 [...]

DRUPAL Beginner’s Guide

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Drupal 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 [...]

The Complete Guide To Drupal SEO

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

First, 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 [...]

Quick installation guide for Drupal 7

Monday, March 15th, 2010

This 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. download Quick installation guide for Drupal [...]

Optimizing Drupal Performance

Monday, March 15th, 2010

This 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 [...]

Using Drupal: A Web Experience

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Report 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 [...]