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Creating A Custom Page Using Panels in drupal- Page Using Panels in drupal - Learningyoutube.com

2011-06-13T11:00:00.000-07:00

In this Learningyoutube.com video tutorial you will learn how to shows you how to create a custom page on your drupal site by using the Panels module.

Creating A Custom Page Using Panels in drupal - Learningyoutube.com

What is important when it comes to Drupal web hosting?

2011-06-12T18:11:00.001-07:00

Drupal requires cron job set up on every 24 hours in order to run smoothly. This one is very important for your Drupal website, as Drupal must perform certain actions automatically every 24 hours (or often). So it's important that your web host have cron editor where you can set up your own cron jobs.

Constraints of Shared Web Hosting

2011-06-05T19:33:00.000-07:00

Shared web hosting is a great option for those need an affordable hosting solution which is easy to use. There are thousands of shared hosting providers in the United States alone. And you might see a strange phenomenon that you could consume unlimited disk space and bandwidth in a cheap shared web hosting solution, but you will only get 10GB or less in an expensive VPS hosting. So, what's wrong here and is there any constraint on shared web hosting which might limit an account to use too much server resource? In below, we will reveal the secret of it.

Drupal Hosting

2011-06-05T19:32:00.000-07:00

Drupal is a free software package that allows anyone to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to build an endless variety of sites. So far, 1.5% of the entire web are powered by Drupal.
Drupal-optimized hosting solution should be able to offer ideal environment for Drupal, and outperform the other products in terms of reliablity, performance, security and customer support.

important

2011-02-23T11:50:00.000-08:00

Some things to consider prior to importing.

Mapping of WP users to Drupal users
Taxonomy vocabulary that will hold the WP categories and tags
Node types for blog entries and pages
Input format for posts and comments
Whether or not the old URLs must be redirected to new ones

Think about all these things before you start the migration. Users, content types and taxonomies are especially important considerations. If things aren't setup correctly and you go ahead with the import many headaches can result. For that reason it's a best practice to make a database backup prior to actually migrating. You can always restore the original database and redo the import if things go wrong.

Import Typepad

Although this module is meant for Typepad/Movable Type blogs I used it to import "journals" (which are basically individual blogs) from Squarespace. To get started you need an export file for each journal that is generated on your Squarespace account. To generate the export file you need to put the journal into structure editing mode, then select Configure This Page, and scroll down to the Data Export section. There is a button there that says "Export Blog Data". Pushing that button generates the file that you will download and then upload using the Import Typepad module. The data that will be imported will be the posts (title and description), and the categories. The date and time of the posting will be preserved as well.

With your various export files in hand you then need to navigate to /admin/content/import_typepad on your Drupal site. There are three things that you need to have set up prior to importing.

Content types
Taxonomy vocabulary
Users

Unlike the WP module there is no automatic user mapping. You will simply select an existing user to assign import posts to. The actual import itself is a 2 step process. In step 1 you select the export file to upload, select the content type to import to, and also select the taxonomy to import categories to. In the next step you see a preview of what the imported content will look like on your site, along with the categories that will be imported. You also map the content to a Drupal user at that time. When you're ready you click an Import button and then wait for a message indicating that the import is complete.

What is Drupal and why you should use it

2011-02-23T11:47:00.003-08:00

Maybe you've heard about Drupal somewhere, maybe a friend told you about it, or maybe you just saw some cool website and found out it has been made with Drupal.

Basic Drupal site configuration

2011-02-23T11:47:00.001-08:00

Here I will point out some things that should be done by yourself after you have installed Drupal. It's a basic Drupal site configuration - some things that I always do when I create new Drupal website.

How to make Drupal piece of content that refreshes itself every 24 hours

2011-02-23T11:46:00.001-08:00

yet it can come very handy and useful sometimes. For one website, I needed to make one part on the frontpage to display teaser of random article, and refreshes itself every 24 hours. Easy, I thought, I could use block_cache module and that's all.

Using tags and tagclouds to describe your content in Drupal

2011-02-23T11:45:00.001-08:00

Tags and tagclouds are all over the web nowadays. Almost every blog or website has it. Setting up a tagging system in Drupal is very easy. If you are using Drupal as a weblog, this might be a great feature for your website. Heck, it is a great feature even if you're not using Drupal as blog.