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	How to Create A Drupal Views (Grid Style) From Summapro - Drupal Tutorials (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )
After creating a content type with CCK and fill the content, the next task is to display contents with Views. The steps in building the views initially seems complicated and requires a long journey. But if you are already accustomed, the process is only takes about 10-20 minutes.

	Views Charts : Exploit your Drupal Site Content Data using Graph From Summapro - Drupal Tutorials (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )
To make charts in our drupal sites is not difficult as I imagined before. Simply knowing how to create new content types and views.

	Sharing Your Web Content with Service Links Module From Summapro - Drupal Tutorials (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )
Now its time to share of your drupal web content to the world by a click on a link button on a node or teaser. Service links is one of the drupal modules that facilitates this. Examples of cases exist in this web. The link button located on bottom part of your node or teaser.

	Webform : Drupal Form to Get Feedback from Visitor From Summapro - Drupal Tutorials (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )
You can create forms on your website to get feedback from your site visitors or just to receive online purchase orders. Next, the feedback or the order information will be received in our email. One of the most frequently forms module used by Drupal web developer is Webform.

	Superfish: Adding Animation Suckerfish and Dropdown Menu From Summapro - Drupal Tutorials (Drupal Tutorials Menus and Navigation)
Drupal seems no shortage of modules to facilitate your website looks beautifully. Do you like a drop down menu? Nice Menu module is a choice. But how does your drop down menu can be displayed with slowing animation? Superfish module is the answer. Plus the ability of this module to display not only a dropdown type, but it also can be a suckerfish.

	Introduction to Drupal Block and Region From Summapro - Drupal Tutorials (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )
Structure of theme usually contains header, menu, sidebar, content / page and the footer. In the screenshot above I use Danland them. This theme offers many regions to where we can put blocks.. "REGION IS SPACE WHERE WE PUT BLOCKS." The region is part of a theme. Its function, once again, is space where we put blocks. So one region could be placed many blocks.

DDBlock Advance Slideshow Tutorial : An Alternative Guide From Summapro - Drupal Tutorials (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )

DDBlock is a slideshow that allows title and preview text displayed along with pictures.The final result of the tutorial will look like the picture above.In practice this tutorial, I use garland theme and put DDBlock on the Footer region. This tutorial is an adaptation of an existing tutorial on http://ddblock.myalbums.biz . This is an alternative approach with same method. The differentiation: 1. I won't bothered you with optional approach, 2. Focusing on specific step and not turn back to earlier step. 3. Guiding preprocess step with screenshots.

	Introduction To Drupal Theme Modification From Summapro - Drupal Tutorials (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )
f you want to change the drupal theme to make it more beautiful or just customize a theme according to your contents, the easiest way is to modify an existing theme. You can select one theme from http://www.drupal.org/project/themes and then start to modify.

7 Drupal Modules to improve SEO of your Drupal website From Geshan's Blog (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )

Drupal out of the box has good SEO features that makes it Search Engine Friendly (SEF) instantly, just converting a website to Drupal has positive effects on the SEO side. With good themes that have SEF markups and things like javascript (JS) and CSS aggregation in Drupal core it helps to speed up a website and attract search engine bots. Core modules like path helps to define SEF URL for the content of your website with clean URL without the ?q=. If you have path on, I guess the obvious next step is to get pathauto, so I will not include pathauto in my list below. 7 Must have Drupal SEO modules Below are the 7 modules that will help you get the most out of the already good for SEO content management system (CMS) Drupal, it is just the basics of SEO for Drupal. I'm no SEO expert but from the podcasts I've listened and experiments I've carried out on websites I'm suggesting following modules:

	User Interface Enhancement Techniques with Drupal and Ubercart 2 From Packtpub.com (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )
In this article we show we will you how to offer a better browsing experience to your visitors, and how to use enhanced marketing techniques to attract more clients and to make them spend more money in your store.

	Product Cross-selling, Layout using Panels with Drupal Ubercart From Packtpub.com (Drupal Tutorials Menus and Navigation)
This article helps you to implement more complex marketing technique such as cross-selling using taxonomy and recommendation systems for Drupal with Ubercart. We examine how to create an layout for products using panels and enhance user interface using views.

	Drupal 6 Performance Optimization Using DB Maintenance and Boost From Packtpub.com (Drupal Tutorials Drupal Administration)
In this article we're going to install, configure, and utilize the DB Maintenance and Boost modules. Both of these contributed modules for Drupal 6 will help you diagnose problems on your site and server as well as help site run in an optimized fashion.

Top X Contributors Drupal module to show top bloggers or any top From Geshan's Blog (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )

Recently for a project we were developing, we had a need to show top X bloggers may be top 5 or top 10 bloggers in a block and after some Googling and searching the drupal.org (d.o) site I could not find anything that fit our needs. The need for a module Then I decided to write a module that will solve the problem but in a dynamic and flexible way and came up with the idea for Top X Contributors module. If you want to download the module and try it, you can download it here or take a look at the code at GitHub.com here. What does it do? The module is very simple, it just shows the top X (X - no. of authors/contributors to show which is configurable) contributors in a HTML list in form of a block for each content type in your Drupal site. Something like below:

Show Drupal blocks only on specific pages with PHP code From Geshan's Blog (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )

Drupal blocks are the basic building elements of any Drupal page. Blocks are placed in block regions and they serve different purposes from showing a list of elements even to show a picture or a video. Menus of the Drupal system are also blocks of special kind that show links to other drupal nodes/pages/url or external links. (I assume that you know about drupal blocks and how they can be shown or hidden on basic given conditions and also you have some knowledge of php.)

5 websites to list, showcase and promote your Drupal website From Geshan's Blog (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )

Arguably Drupal is the best open source content management system out there, Drupal project usage statistics here show around 40 thousand downloads a day for Drupal core (including 5x, 6x and 7x alpha releases) for last 6 months or so. The 5 websites listed below are basically ideal places to showcase your Drupal site that you have build. Among the 40 thousand downloads if only 1% are deployed live daily we will have around 4 hundred new Drupal websites every day and these websites need some publicity, promotion and exposure so below are the (other Drupal) websites that list and showcase Drupal websites.

	Drupal 6: Attachment Views, Page Views, and Theming From ...site title missing... (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )
This article by J.Ayen Green, author of Drupal 6 Attachment Views, gives us an introduction to Attachment Views in Drupal. Here's what we'll do in this article: * Learn what an Attachment view is * Learn what you can do with an Attachment view * Consider in what situations an Attachment view can be useful * Cover basic view theming * Create a Page view * Create an Attachment view * Theme the view

	Drupal 6 Performance Optimization Using Throttle and Devel Modul From Packtpub.com (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )
Here, we learn the following performance tips: Use the Throttle module to throttle our blocks and modules and use the Devel module to generate test content, users, and categories.

Taming Drupal Node Teaser and Node Title From Geshan's Blog (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )

You might be wondering what is the use of this article / tutorial when Drupal system of handling title and teasers is so good and there are modules like node teaser to customize the teaser as per your need. But lets picture a scenario you are developing a website with a custom front page (required by majority of websites) so you have created your page-front.tpl.php and created a panel kicking out your left and right sidebar selection and example below.

	Taming Drupal Node Teaser and Node Title 2 (for custom content) From Geshan's Blog (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )
In continuation to my previous post about "Taming Drupal Node Title and Teaser" this is part 2 of the Drupal node title and teaser taming tweak by editing node-type.tpl.php.(type is your content type like story, project or custom type like news or project etc). This is what your teaser for front page look like after the tweak is applied and after some great theming .

Control book outline form and menu for specified Drupal node typ From Geshan's Blog (Drupal Tutorials Content Management )

Drupal has a good potential to be used as a blog, forum (some what), wiki or any other dedicated web application or combination of two or more services. Drupal as a wiki, out of the box is a little weird. Problem is Drupal organizes wiki as book pages and books and book pages are related. Some people might not agree that book node/content type is a form of wiki but they can be used as one. Problem: The problem using Drupal book module and book pages as wiki is, the book page module adds book outline form part and the book outline menu as node/x/outline to all node types. All the node types do not need to be part of a book/wiki page. So this is the awkward part. I had to develop an application that had a wiki as a part with blogs and events as other services. So I faced this problem.

	44 Marvelous Sites Powered by Drupal From Flash Journey (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )
Indulge your eyes to some amazing and eye catching Drupal designs that will change the way you look and perceive Drupal forever

	How to Enable Drupal Site Search From LearnWebTutorials.com (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )
Many content managed site have a site-search feature for users to search the entire site content for particular keywords. The functional is already built-in Drupal, you just have to enable it. And this tutorial will show you how.

	Example of How to Upgrade Drupal From LearnWebTutorials.com (Drupal Tutorials Drupal Administration)
Sooner or later you will need to upgrade Drupal. This tutorial will walk you through an upgrade example.

	Drupal module tutorial - spam protection module From ...site title missing... (Drupal Tutorials Drupal Administration)
Download the Mollom module from the project page or from Mollom.com. Be sure to pick a version of the Mollom client that matches your version of Drupal. The module package should be placed with the rest of your contributed Drupal modules (generally, in "sites/all/modules" or "sites/default/modules").

	Drupal Taxonomy, Drupal Nodes And Other Terms - What Do They Mea From ...site title missing... (Drupal Tutorials Drupal - General )
Drupal is a very powerful content management system but it's pretty clear that beginners have a though time using it, and the Drupal specific terms aren't at all helpful. Yes, the taxonomy system is how content is categorized but why the hell don't they just say categories?