Drupal, Content Management At Its Finest?

I’ve had a few questions come in over the past few weeks, maybe it’s time I got around to responding. The latest question came in the form of what module do I use to have my graphics open in its own window.

I actually learned about it while doing research and training on web video. So it was nice to see that Drupal 5 and 6 had a module Lightbox2 that was ready to go. I use it in a very simple form, and from what I gather it will do a lot more.

{ Read more Using Lightbox2 with Drupal 6-x }

Last night I ran into an issues with the latest 6.x.2.x-dev version of nice menus, yeah I know I should not be running a dev version on a live site. My site is not for commercial purposes, just a place to put my thoughts and notes on a variety of subjects.

After updating to the latest version, to my horror it was broken. I had incorporated the downdown menus from the Nice Menus horizontal children example, that was the look and function I wanted for this site as you can see above.

{ Read more Drupal 6 Nice Menus CSS issue? }

Finding the equivelant plugin from Wordpress to Drupal is often not that difficult yet sometime the naming convention does not make it clear. I had written awhile back on the AddThis Button for Drupal and at the time thought it was nice.

{ Read more Drupal Service Links module = WordPress Sociable plugin }

Exploring Drupal and all of the wonderful modules, does make things exciting. Although it is not always easy to find what you want without a little experimentation. Such was the case when it came to the template I had settled on for my site.

Since the theme is essentially a new – music type theme, I wanted to maintain that look, yet keeping it super simple. I had already installed the Advanced Frontpage module on one of my Drupal 6 sites, it was filled with static text.

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{ Read more Drupal 6 Views Or Advanced Frontpage Module? }

This evening, while solving a duplicate content issue on a wordpress site it really made me stop and think about the possible impact of duplicate content that could arise within drupal. With everyone talking about carbon foot prints and the recent article by the Times Online discussing Googles carbon foot print from just 2 searches.

{ Read more Drupals impact on the environment? }

With Drupal there are so many modules out there finding just the right one makes it worth the adventure. One of the first ones that I found was the Similar Entries Module, later I found the Taxonews module.

Both of these modules offer something for a Drupal 6.x installation although Taxonews as this is being writen is still in the release candidate mode it appears to work very well.

{ Read more Taxonews Or Similar Entries Drupal 6.x Modules? }

Lets face it the Drupal’s default 404 page is just plain horrible. Not that it really looks bad, it’s just that it really does nothing for our visitors.

I wonder just how many of us give consideration to the error pages on our websites? I must admit, it was the last thing on my mind as well.

This weekend I had the time to sit down finally and catch up on Matt Cutts blog, you can often find golden nuggets of information there that you may not find anywhere else.

{ Read more Drupal 6.x 404 Page – Keep Your Visitors with Drupal Search 404 Module }

Starting last week, I was doing some research on drupal theming for version 6.x. While searching through the forum I ran across a post about conversions from a wordpress them to drupal.

I believe that by changing a theme we can really make it our own, yet even more important is the knowledge we learn about the system, the code, and much more about the cms system we are using.

{ Read more Theme’s – Drupal Input Format and Filters }

For having a little, out of the way drupal based blog, it was only a matter of time before the comment spammers located it. Of course I had already set up the site so that each comment had to be approved.

Now having to make your visitors have to wait before their comment is visible is really a pain it is something that unfortunately we have to do. I installed the Akismet module and had it running until one of the visitors to the site pointed out the problems it was having. So with that it went on the disabled list.

{ Read more Drupal Comment Spam Solutions }