CMS, Drupal, Free for Web, Joomla and Mambo
During the last few months we’ve had a lot of clients who are very technically knowledgeable and coming to us to find out more after picking up on the buzz around CMS systems and Drupal and Joomla in particular.
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After talking and developing answers for several clients, we decided to put all we’d written into one document to help other people with this decision. This is not an Drupal vs Joomla discussion. Some disclaimers before we start:
- An open acknowledgement that each choice is appropriate for different sites. Sometimes we have to tell clients that neither will work for what they want.
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Full article: http://www.glorilla.com
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Indexed in July 2008
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CMS, Drupal
I’ve been struggling with this problem for some time now, and am a bit stumped. Bits of it are trivial to solve, but when I start hooking things up, there’s a pretty big gap and disconnect.
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The other thing I’m hitting my head against is the need to keep data entry as simple as possible. Some really nicely designed forms have been sketched out with ease of use as the primary concern. But they’re going to be pretty darned difficult to implement in Drupal without writing custom modules. If ease of use wasn’t such a big concern, I could probably just use text fields for display so I could enter whatever text I wanted to represent the degrees, and have a set of Taxonomy vocabularies to be used to represent the data for querying and filtering. But that’s redundant data entry, and would be very confusing to anyone actually entering the data.
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Full article: http://www.darcynorman.net
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada
Indexed in June 2008
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CMS, Drupal, Promoting Website, SEO, Tools
Looking for help improving SEO on your Drupal site? There’s a great little module available called the SEO Checklist. It provides a list of the best SEO modules for Drupal and tells you if they’re installed. If you don’t, it will give you the link to download the extra modules and then a link to enable them.
We’ve already got a Joomla version of the prelaunch checklist (membership required). I wonder if it would be worth converting it into a component format?
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Full article: http://www.alledia.com/blog/drupal/drupal-seo-checklist/License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States
Indexed in June 2008
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Installation Instructions for Version 2.0
This page provides instructions for manually installing CiviCRM 2.0 for Drupal. Unless you are working with a multi-site configuration, we strongly recommend using the Automated Installer Instructions.
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1. Server Requirements
CiviCRM for Drupal has been developed and tested by our team on the following ‘recommended’ platforms:
* Linux
* Apache 2.0
* PHP 5.2.x
* MySQL 5.x with INNODB enabled
* Drupal 5.7
As of version 1.9 - CiviCRM is not compatible with any version of PHP 4.
Caution: Under Linux, the optional CiviMail component requires PHP 5.X with SOAP and DOM extensions, MySQL 4.1.X+, Postfix 2.2 (a mailer), and Perl 5.8.X..
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Full article: http://wiki.civicrm.org
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5
Indexed in June 2008
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CMS, Drupal, Maintenance Web
Upgrading modules is a more involved process than installing or removing modules. The steps should be followed closely, as all these steps are necessary to ensure the stability of your website.
Database Backup
Your website’s database contains all of its content, as well as all of its settings and configuration. As such, any operation which modifies it could, although unlikely, be potentially damaging. We highly recommend you take steps to back it up before performing this procedure.
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Check Module status
The Update module can check your modules for updated status automatically to assist you with updates. It will provide you with download links and available versions. Once the Upgrade module is installed and enabled, you can reach a list of modules for update by either clicking on the “available updates” link on the main administration page or by going directly to [sitename]/admin/logs/update..
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Full article: http://www.topnotchthemes.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States
Indexed in May 2008
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Ajax, CMS, Custom Programming, Drupal, Elements of a Web
If you need a simple content refresh system, let me show you an example of a simple (yet powerful) implementation.
Step 1
Download a the lightweight ajax library from ImpliedByDesign, and copy it to a directory called “ajax” in your module directory.
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Full article: http://www.kvaes.be
License: Creative Commons
Indexed in May 2008
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The blog post Drupal vs. Joomla - Fight! pointed me to a discussion on the drupal-devel mailing list about the ohloh.net website which tries to gather some statistics/metrics about the code of Free Software projects..
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The following data is generated using David A. Wheeler’s SLOCCount (for the respective tarballs of the current stable releases):
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Full article: http://www.hermann-uwe.de
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
Indexed in May 2008
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CMS, Drupal, Syndication, Weblog (Blog), Wordpress Blog
I migrated my blog from Drupal 5 to WordPress 2 nearly 2 weeks ago. The process wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be, thanks to a handy howto via vrypan.net. Another resource I refer to every time I get into tweaking MySQL rows is UrbanMainframe’s MySQL search and replace tipsheet. Thanks to both of these great resources for helping me through the migration.
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Use a backup copy of your Drupal database, and a fresh WordPress database.
The basic process I followed was:
- Work from offline copies of the databases. Dump your Drupal 5 database, import it into a fresh database (say “
drupalmigration” or something creative)..
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Full article: http://www.darcynorman.net
License: Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada
Indexed in May 2008
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The next question on the first steps of this project is why Drupal? I could say lots of things, beginning with this is the first I came to from I like PostgreSQL but the very truth is I came to an interesting article which read:..
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Here are some Key pros and cons of the two systems.
Drupal
- Rock solid & high quality platform
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Joomla
- If you are not techy its good to start
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Full article: http://www.freesoftwarebench.org/en/why_drupal
License: Creative Commons
Indexed in May 2008
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Custom Programming, Drupal, Wordpress Blog
I have been a fan of Python and its design right from day one. There are some nuances, but they are ignorable. However, one of the things I really miss while using Python on web are tools like WordPress and Drupal..
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There is also a WordPress Python library that lets you talk to WordPress using XML-RPC. Using this someone has even created a blogging client called WordPy, with a mobile version.
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Full article: http://ifacethoughts.net/2007/06/26/wordpress-and-drupal-in-python/
License: Creative Commons
Indexed in April 2008
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