Archive for the ‘ Drupal Development ’ Category

Make your website accessible with Drupal Web Design Development

Thursday, July 5th, 2012

Drupal Development is a powerful tool of Content Management System. I was looking for something similar and blessed with this tool. Here is more for you all. A website is always designed in such a way, that the designer should have a complete autonomy over the website, once the work is done. To ensure the best system, a flexible Content Management System needs to be used. A Drupal Content Management System is one of the most friendly, flexible CMS; also it offers a wide range of functions.

With Drupal CMS, you can edit every single page of your site, images, links, texts, footers, titles, copyright notices and also block the unwanted links and pages. It is fun trying various applications of the tool.

That means by using a Drupal, you have a total control over every aspect of your website, which merge the lines between designing and maintenance of your website. While creating even a more complex site like community portal, e-commerce store. Drupal can be used to generate perfection as after a few lessons I achieved it.

Drupal Management System serves as an excellent and convenient attribute, which is of two types, open source and commercial Drupal CMS.  It is actually the popular technology which is among all the CMS tools available, especially in arena of smooth creation, finer managing, fast editing and publishing for many assorted types and forms. The Drupal management system minimized all the human time and efforts, hence in a way it ensured accomplishment of portals. As this is an age of e-commerce, an updated website with the amusing networking ability is advantageous for your business. Hire Drupal Developer can help you get this advantage. Drupal web development, offers you an option to add features like different user administration to your website.

In the recent time, due to the exclusive features and amusing networking ability, it has become a forerunner among all the CMS tools. The features like advanced calibration, gels well with the ultra fast network speed. By installing, Drupal one can access features as an affiliate for examination, as friends, profiles, tagging and forums discussion or user posts.  Another advantage of this program is its added affiliation to AJAX. This will facilitate the development of several websites for activating the nature. You can also add administering console, logo, logo, accessible theme. Thus in a way Drupal web designing development tool will make your website more accessible and help you grow your business better.

You can make the most of this amazing tool. I am sure you will enjoy working with it on Open source web development.

The New Drupal 8 For Drupal Development

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

If you are looking for a content management system for your website, Drupal Development could be your best choice. Drupal 8 recently out and it is loaded with features for your website content management systems.

Mobile compatibility: Drupal 8 comes with a mobile friendly backend that allows us to manage web content on mobile devices too. Drupal Development professionals find this feature very exciting and take advantage to develop websites compatible with the generation next gadgets

Multiple-language support: Drupal Development is now possible to include various languages. A Drupal developer can easily configure this for you and your website audience have a wide option of languages to select from.

Critical bugs fixed: Bugs from the previous versions of Drupal are now fixed.

Scalability: Scalability has always been the strongest feature of any open source platform. So you can easily update your website for new features.

Power of HTML5: Drupal 8 takes advantage of the wonderful features provided by HTML5.

Drupal 8 is loaded with all new features that Drupal Development professionals can take advantage of.

 

Overview of Drupal Module Development

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Drupal is the most powerful CMS. Drupal is free and flexible to use. With the help of Drupal you can easily manage and publish your content. Drupal can be use for building everything from blogs to application or a website. It is supported by a community of people.  These days for designing or developing websites, developers generally prefer Drupal development because developers love drupal’s documented APIs. Drupal also allows you to re-use your content. Drupal Core is one of the stander versions of development of Drupal. Drupal core is also similar to the CMSs.

Drupal Developers and users need to be familiar with the modules of Drupal Development.  Drupal web Development is based on three modules.

Drupal Core module: This module is approved by the core developers as well as by the community as a whole.

Drupal Contributed module: This contributed module is generally written by the Drupal community and is shared under the same GNU public license.

Drupal Custom module: This module is a development module which is created by the developers.

Drupal module Development code runs within the website which is programmed in PHP.

 

Getting Started With Drupal Development

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Drupal is the most popular Open Source CMS it provides a platform for developing a website.  Drupal does not require any license or fees. Generally Drupal Development uses PHP language and requires MySQL Database. Drupal contains effective features and modules.  For working with Drupal, basic knowledge about CMS is required you cannot operate it as simple as  WordPress. Drupal development involves customizing and modifying your existing CMS to give you easy to use features.

Features of Drupal Development

  • Easy to use: Drupal is a very easy to use CMS. A Nontechnical person can modify the site easily. In Drupal, developers can change Templates, fonts, colors as it has effective modules by which you can handle it easily.
  • Good design: Drupal has excellent themes you can use Drupal themes for making effective web design. With Drupal Development we help create themes that are unique for your business.
  • SEO Friendly: As Drupal provides you with the best themes you can develop SEO friendly sites. Moreover with the help of Drupal development you can get advanced control over URL.
  • Drupal Customized Website Design: Drupal has very effective themes after selecting themes  developers have to design website layout and user comment places etc. For developing website with the help of Drupal development – Developers require better knowledge of PHP and MySQL
  • Upgradation : Drupal has better modules and with the help of these modules developers can develop customizations according to client requirement.

Drupal Development has many advantages as Drupal  is one of the best CMS. You can use manage and control your website when you are using Drupal Development.

 

Backups Essential For Your Drupal Site?

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Your website is the heart and soul of your online business. It is hence very essential to protect it from disasters – most likely a web server crash or any scenario that will make it unavailable to users. Implementation of an effective backup strategy is hence of utmost importance. It is necessary to backup your Drupal website on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

So what exactly should you include in your backups?

  • Database: Backup of the MySQL database is important. This is where all your website data is going to be! Ensure you read all the database backup guidelines for databases.
  • Core files: The root directory, and any files you might have modified for your website requires to be backed up.
  • Even the non-core files need to be backed up.

 

When Not To Use Drupal

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Selection of appropriate software for the right purposes is very important. You have so many multipurpose software out there, some can be used for website development, some can be used for large enterprise websites and some for small, some can be used for e-commerce websites, and yet some others can be used for blogging and informative websites. So, which one is the most apt selection for your purpose is the next question. Well, here are a few options where you should not select Drupal for!

 

  • Personal blog: Drupal is not an appropriate choice for a blogging website. You might want to try a specialized software like WordPress for this purpose.
  • Discussion forums: Drupal does provide a discussion forum facility, however using it solely for this purpose is not advisable (this does not mean that there is any negative impact, it’s just about not utilizing the full potential of the software.)
  • Information websites: Same with informative websites. Drupal can certainly edit content for you on these websites, but it will be easier for you to use a specialized software for this purpose.

 

What Databases Are Supported By Drupal ?

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Drupal an open source web development platform is very popular amongst web development communities. Being open source, Drupal Development has been a programmer’s favourite activity! Drupal fans just love creating customizations and developing the most innovative CMS and e-commerce websites! There is another side to this story however. Being open source, there are certain uncertainties revolving around Drupal Development and a lot of questions. Let us attempt to address one such question for now.

Databases. Whenever you have a website, the data is stored in a backend database which is retrieved as and when the browser demands it (when user clicks on a certain link etc.)

Currently Drupal supports the following databases for web development:

  • MySQL (or some equivalent)
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite

These three databases work well with Drupal installations and are very frequently used by web development companies round the world!

 

Drupal 7.9 Released

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Drupal, an open source web developer’s favourite tool, now has it’s latest version released. Drupal 7.9 was released last week. This is not a major release. It is a maintenance release and has a few bug fixes. It is also available for download on the Drupal website. Check it out! As per the website, the upgrade is strongly recommended. Here are a few fixes in Drupal 7.9 upgrade. (Taken from http://drupal.org/node/1322736)

 

• Critical bugs with the OpenID have been addressed.

• Images – restored height/width attributes run through the theme system.

• Fixed bug that would not allow you to preview the private images on the node form.

• Added two new API functions (menu_tree_set_path()/menu_tree_get_path()) were added in order to enable setting the active menu trail for dynamically generated menu paths.

• Fixed files getting lost when adding multiple files to multiple file fields at the same time.

 

These are just the highlights, check out the entire list at Drupal’s release notes on their website! http://drupal.org/node/1322736

Drupal CMS – Best Practices

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Your website is the heart and soul of your online business. Are you planning Drupal as your content management system? Sure- Good decision. Well, let’s take a peek into what are the best practices for a Drupal website! (Reference – Drupal’s website)

Following best practices will help you protect your most valuable business asset – your website.

  • Planning – You might wonder what this has to do with an already feature packed CMS. Well, Drupal provides an amazing tool set. Plan and use them judiciously.
  • Future planning – Every time Drupal rolls out an update, check your website’s compatibility and upgrade accordingly.
  • Backup: Maintain a backup of all your data – systems crash, websites break down and there goes your heart and soul – your online business!
  • Testing – Test and re-test your PHP code.

What’s New In Drupal 7.8

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Drupal being the most robust and flexible content management system, has gained popularity in a very short time. It has been used to build personal blogs to enterprise web applications. Drupal has the support of thousands of passionate open source developers over the world. Lets take a quick look at the features of the very new Drupal 7.8

  • Flexible content: You can define custom fields to be used with various content types, comments and terms. You can store the content in MySQL or SQL or a remote storage too.
  • Better Themes: You maintain control over what gets seen to the website visitor with the new Render API.
  • Administration screens are improved.
  • Automated code testing with millions of built in tests.
  • Database Support: Drupal now supports SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. You can install modules to use MS SQL Server, Oracle, and more.