drupal

What is Drupal

Many people ask me what is drupal.

Drupal is a free 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. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

  • 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
  • Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. It even has an easy-to-use web installer! The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:

    Drupal Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit Links , Facebook and more

    I thought it would be a good idea to include social book marking so that people can find my content. To do this using drupal is very easy. If you include the The Drupal "services links" module it will let you to add links for del.icio.us, Digg, StumbleUpon, Propeller, Reddit, ma.gnolia.com, Newsvine, Furl, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Technorati and IceRocket. To do this
    follow these instructions;

  • Download Service Links module
  • Untar the downloaded file and ftp over to your modules diretory
  • Navagate to /admin/build/modules and toggle on the module
  • Navagate to /admin/user/permissions and turn on permissions for anonymous user for access service links.
  • Drupal Caching Performance

    Drupal uses PHP to build web pages that are returned to a user's browser. Most of the time, these pages are unchanged between requests, and Drupal is working to build the same page before sending it off to the various users who requested it. IT makes sense then to tell Drupal that if it has created a web page once, it should store a copy of this page and serve that copy instead of going to the trouble of recreating it.

    Drupal Performance

    Every once in a while someone makes a site that becomes wildy popular. Having loads of people visiting all at once can put some serious strain on the server's resources and causes all sorts of problems as the congestion builds. Even if a site is not exceedingly popular, it is possible that it may come under a 'denial of service' attack from somewhere.

    Before even thinking about setting up the throttling mechanism on a site, it is important to know what resources are at your disposal.

    Drupal SEO Tips

    When developing a site it is important it should be search engine friendly. Below is a list of tips which will help you to develop a search engine friendly site and spiders can crawl the site very easily without any limits

  • Rewrite CSS and reduce code size
  • Design layout using XHTMl and make it lighter better for SEO
  • Creating Clean URL's, optional using .htaccess
  • Enable Path module
  • Configure Meta tag Module
  • Remove content duplication by URL's with the help of robots.txt File
  • Enable XML sitemap
  • Add Custom breadcrumb Module
  • Enable related links
  • Drupal Google Adwords

    To add Adwords to your Drupal site you need to follow these commands

    http://frontmasters.co.uk/drupal/setting-up-drupal-adsense

    Simply launching an AdWords campaign is generally fast and easy, but to truly configure your campaign correctly takes time, research, consideration and testing. This post will identify some important areas of ad campaigns that can get overlooked.

    Conversions Are a Must

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