Drupal is a powerful CMS will lots of option. I have already discussed about Drupal. In this post I will show you how to make a wallpaper site in Drupal.

Before we start, I want to show you a wallpaper site made in Drupal.
http://www.9wallpapers.com

Its very easy to make a wallpaper site in Drupal, and very few plugins are need. Ok, lets start building a wallpaper site in Drupal.
1. Download latest version of Drupal from drupal.org and install it on your web server.
2. First thing you need is a dark theme for your wallpaper web site. So, after installing Drupal, select a good   theme for your website from here http://drupal.org/project/Themes
3. Now download, install and enable following modules:
Image -> http://drupal.org/project/image
AcidFree -> http://drupal.org/project/acidfree
You can choose any other gallery module also from here:

http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/67

Now you are ready to start creating your wallpaper site. First step is creating album. From navigation links, click “Create content”. And create a album.

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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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