Drupal: The Archives
Backing Up Your Drupal Database
Being a WordPress devotee, the shocking thing about Drupal is that it doesn’t have a backup utility built into the core system. Any content management system that relies upon a back-end database should provide a way to back that database up regularly. Shockingly, Drupal doesn’t. But it does have a dedicated community, and there are [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Applications on Thursday, April 24 2008 | 5 Comments »
HowTo: Configuring Triggers and Actions in Drupal 6
Drupal 6 offers built-in actions that can be performed whenever something happens on your site. Typically, you want to use this to get an alert when someone publishes content on the site, or a new user signs up. You might even want to mimic WordPress and get an email alert every time someone leaves a [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Applications on Thursday, April 3 2008 | 11 Comments »
How To Apply rel="nofollow" To Content In Drupal
If you’ve got a community website using Drupal, you might want to protect your site from spammers by applying the rel=”nofollow” attribute to any links your users generate. The theory behind this is that you protect your site from linking to ‘bad neighbourhoods’ an possibly incurring penalties with Google for spammy links. Rel=”nofollow” is your [...]
Posted in Drupal, Search Engine Optimisation on Wednesday, April 2 2008 | 3 Comments »
Comment Configuration In Drupal 6
I spent a frustrating hour searching for the comment configuration area in Drupal 6, so I’m putting this post together to hopefully save you time setting up comments in Drupal. Basically, in contrast to previous editions of Drupal, comments are now configured by content type – allowing you to permit comments on blog entries, but [...]
Posted in Drupal on Wednesday, April 2 2008 | 3 Comments »
A Drupal User Administration Tip
I’ve been working a lot with the Drupal content management system lately, and one tip I’d share with anybody managing a Drupal site is to keep the administration account separate from their user account.
Posted in Drupal on Monday, March 31 2008 | 1 Comment »
Configuring The Contact Form Module In Drupal
I’m currently wrapping up on a Drupal installation for a client I’ve been working with for a while. One of the finishing touches on the new site is a contact form. Thankfully, Drupal has a contact form module built in, so there’s not really much work to do to get it up and running. Here [...]
Posted in Drupal on Monday, September 3 2007 | 26 Comments »
Installing Drupal’s Google Sitemaps Module
Here’s a short and sweet tutorial on how to install the Drupal XML Sitemap module. This module automates the creation of a sitemap – an inventory of the files on your site – and automatically submits it to the major search engines as well. An essential SEO step for users of the Drupal CMS.
Posted in Drupal, Search Engine Optimisation on Tuesday, July 17 2007 | 7 Comments »
Styling Drupal Buttons For Usability
I came across this very interesting article by urlgreyhot on how to style the default Drupal buttons for that they provide some visual cues as to which buttons are most important. In most of the standard Drupal themes, the Preview, Publish and Delete buttons are styled in the same way, which gives equal visual weight [...]
Posted in Drupal, Web Design & Standards on Tuesday, February 20 2007 | 2 Comments »
