Archive for September, 2008

Drupal is a very powerful famous CMS. Hundreds or may be thousands of website are built in Drupal daily. Now let see how easy is Drupal search engine optimization (SEO). You can easily do SEO of Drupal websites using some SEO modules.

  1. First Module you need is pathauto. The Pathauto module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows you to get aliases like /category/my-node-title.html instead of /node/123. The aliases are based upon a “pattern” system which the administrator can control.If your site dont have too many pages, you can use path module also. Enable path module from Drupal web site Admin panel.
  2. If you use path or autopath module to change the url of your Drupal websites, than you must use Global Redirect module. It will redirect all node urls to custom url, and thus your website is safe from dublicate content. However this may give you some trouble. So, you can avoid this. Read the rest of this entry »

If you own a Vbulletin forum, than you must know how to BAN a user. Only administrator,  moderatir and user with this feature can BAN other user.

  1. Copy Username of user want to ban.
  2. Enter Administrator/ Moderator control panel
  3. Navigate to: USer -> Ban user -> Enter the user name, select “Banned User” as usergroup, select number of Ban days.
  4. Click “Ban User”

By default 10 latest post appear on homepage of a wordpress blog. Many people wants to change this number. It is very easy and just need some setting in wordpress admin panel.

  1. Login wordpress admin panel.
  2. Navigate to setting.                                                          Read the rest of this entry »

Top Features Of Drupal

Below I have mentioned some top features of Drupal.

  1. SEO friendly url. Drupal has advance url control feature. You can customize url of any page. This feature is not available in other CMS like wordpress. You can also atomate custom url of different content type using module “pathauto”.
  2. Integrated Forum. Drupal comes with a integrated forum. However you can also integrate other forums script like phpBB, SMF, Vbulletin etc.
  3. Custom content type and views. Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views Modules can be used to create new content types and create advanced custom views for them without writing any code. Like you can create content type as latest news, my images, webdesign etc. and display them in many different ways.
  4. Input Formats. Drupal lets you select input format of your post like Filtered HTML, Full HTML, PHP. You can also make you own format from admin panel.
  5. Integrated Search Engine. Drupal have intergrated search engine. Just enable the search module, and allow it to appear in theme setting. Read the rest of this entry »

Why Use Drupal?

We have already discussed about “what is Drupal“. Now lets find out the advantages of Drupal. Why should we use Drupal. Druapl can be used a to build a powerful and flexible web presence without learning any coding. All you need to learn is some basic about how to do with Drupal.

  1. Drupal is free and very easy to learn and get started.
  2. Drupal Is Dynamic. It uses a database. So, you can change the design of your Drupal website without having any problem. Just install a theme, and change the look from admin panel.
  3. Huge and strong user and community to help you with Drupal. There are thousands of Drupal developers, so you have plenty of resources available.
  4. Lots of modules and addons for your website functionlity. Read the rest of this entry »

What is Drupal

Drupal is used to build websites. It is a open source content management system (CMS) or software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is written in PHP, and require a databases. It is very flexible. Installing Drupal is very easy, and can be done in 10- 30 mins. using Drupal you can make websites like:
* Community web portals
* Discussion sites
* Corporate web sites
* Intranet applications
* Personal web sites or blogs
* Aficionado sites
* E-commerce applications
* Resource directories
* Social Networking sites
and many more.

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Installing a new wordpress plugin is very easy. Follow these instruction to install a plugin in wordpress.

  1. Download the zip file of plugin.
  2. Extract the zip file.
  3. Upload the extracted plugin folder in plugin folder /wp-content/plugins/” folder of your Wordpress installation.
  4. Log in wordpress admin panel using your admin login username and password.
  5. Click “Plugins” located at top right.
  6. Activate the plugin.
  7. Now go to setting, and select the plugin. Do the required setting of the plugin.

You have sucessfully installed new plugin.

Installing a new theme/ templete / skin in a wordpress is very easy. Follow the below instructions.

  1. Download the wordpress template. Most probably you have downloaded a zip file. Extract the zip file.
  2. Upload the theme folder /wp-content/themes/” folder of your Wordpress installation.
  3. Log in wordpress admin panel using your admin login username and password.
  4. Click “Design” tab. Here you can see all available themes. Select the theme by clicking on the theme thumbnail image.  You have successfully installed new theme.

We always want to have a contact form on our wordpress blog, so that visitors can contact the admin of the wordpress blog. By default there is no wordpress “Contact Us” plugin. Below I have mentioned few wordpress “contact Us” plugin.

  1. Secure Form Mailer Plugin For Wordpress : This plugin has a wide range of features including: Support for multiple instances, an easy to use dynamic form generation system (any number of fields, in any order), multiple recipients, multiple file attachments, optional auto reply feature, an image verification system, numerous security features (including protection against email header injection), a message template system, multiple languages, and too many other things to list. This plugin was designed to be easy to use, while still being extremely flexible. If you just want a simple contact form, you can set one up with just a few clicks. For those of you who need something a bit more advanced, you can completely customize the plugin to fit your needs – whether it is 5 fields or 500.     Language Supported : English, Belarussian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmaal, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.                                                                              Download and Installation instruction
  2. SCF2 Contact Form : Its new and working version of old wordpress plugin “Simple WordPress Contact Form”. ust another simple contact form? Yes, and this one is a bit different… It’s not just a contact form, but more like a private messaging system for WordPress. It uses the comments routine to filter and approve incoming messages. Read the rest of this entry »