Drupal

This tutorial will show you how you can specify alternative URL names for your content and how these can be generated automatically using the path and path auto modules.

You will often get updates to contributed modules as a result of either a security release or the addition of extra functionality. This video guides you through the process of upgrading contributed modules on your site.

If you have a Drupal site, you may of come across the term 'node'. A node is a single piece of content, such as a page or a blog post, with many different attributes. This brief tutorial describes the term node as used in Drupal.

Content creation is the bread and butter of a CMS, learning how to work quickly and effectively with content types is essential for a site owner. Todays tutorial will explain the difference between the core content types in Drupal and show an example of adding content based on one of these content types, namely a blog post.

During peak times your site may slow down due to the sheer volume of visitors. This post describes some of the best practices to boost performance on these high traffic sites through the use of caching.

This step by step guide will introduce you to the powerful tools Drupal uses for SEO or, "search engine optimisation". Better SEO means better rankings on sites such as Google, Yahoo and Bing, which in turn means more traffic to your site.

Contributed modules are a fantastic resource for Drupal site owners. Learning how to install and configure basic modules is an essential skills for managing your website. This tutorial uses the Search 404 module as an example of how to add extra functionality to your site and increase conversion rates. After installation, if a visitor comes to your site through a URL that does not exist, Drupal will turn the URL into a search, giving the user the most relevent result on your site instead of a blank 404 page.

Choosing an e-commerce solution can be a tough and costly choice. Ubercart, a popular e-commerce module for Drupal, could be the perfect fit.

In previous blog posts we have looked at the benefits of using open source software to provide the tools needed by your marketing team and, specifically, the reasons to use a Content Management System (CMS). The next question therefore is which CMS to use?

In this 2nd blog post I am going to focus on content management systems (CMS). More specifically I am going to look at what they are and why every website should be created using them. Put in a very simple terms a CMS is a web based system that, as the name suggests, allows the content of a website to be easily managed. Once you get past this very simplistic definition however you will run in to a fair amount of dis-agreement as to what a CMS is.