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23
Dec

Create / rename a new theme based on the ready made theme in drupal

We download and use ready made theme from drupal. However, if you want to look more professional or you don't want people knowing which theme you are using from the source code.

When you make a new theme, modify the "theme names" in the following files. I used theme "acquia_marina" as an example:

  • acquia_marina.info
  • style.css
  • layout.css
  • template.php

Basically, whenever you find the text "acquia_marina", replace it to "your_prefer_theme_name"

8
Nov

Things to consider when you choose a web hosting company

Recently, I help a charity to find a web hosting company for the new website I designed for them. 

Because it's a charity, I try to look for the cheapest possible hosting package. At the end, my intention for saving some money for them becomes a nightmare,but I learned a lot and decide to write something here. 

If your website runs on drupal, it demands a reasonable hardware resource and technology. Here are several things you must check with your webhosting providers before you commit

 

30
Aug

Using tab in form / node in drupal

Sometimes, you may have too much information you want to display in a page. You may use tab(s) to seperate the fields so that users don't need to scroll down to read the information

http://drupal.org/project/tabs

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For tabs in form, you go to content type -> manage fields -> configure -> choose tab

 

 

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30
Aug

How to build a simple Drupal photo gallery

Modules Required

(1) Lightbox2
http://drupal.org/project/lightbox2

(2) Views
http://drupal.org/project/views

(3) CCK
http://drupal.org/project/cck

(4) Imagecache
http://drupal.org/project/imagecache

 

Steps

1. Enable all three modules above

2. Create a New content type -> Gallery

3. Create a new field in gallery using the CCK

15
Jun

Not popular, but very useful modules for drupal admin / webmaster

Here are some very useful modules which I found they are very useful. It helps me a lot to organise the admin / user pages in drupal

 

  1. Vertical tabs (http://drupal.org/project/vertical_tabs)

    This module provides the following features:

Autotagging - Drupal

Tagging becomes popular these days because it helps user / search engine to understand / search the content they are looking for. We all use tagging everyday. Think about how you use google, you put in a few keywords and the search engine comes up a list of reference contents. You bascially use the tag (keyword) to find the reference content.

If the author of the content uses some tags which are the same as the those keyword you put on google, search engine will give you a higher position.

In drupal, so far I learn 2 ways to do this tagging things

29
Apr

Joomla Vs Drupal - my post on ukbusinessforum

 

I used both Joomla and drupal...and actually, I found drupal easier to learn and use than joomla because I love to change the things..

 

with joomla, I found modules are ready to use without much need to change the theme & layout. Good for you if you are not a demanding people, but if u want to change theme / code, u will feel the headaches.

 

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