Archive for the ‘Drupal’ Category

10
May

Drupal Or Joomla – Which is precise For You?

Well, the www. is replete with Drupal Vs Joomla sorta stuff and most of them conclude that one must pick the CMS that can serve one’s needs best. Most of these comparisons don’t provide any guidance on how users can pick the one according to their needs.

If you want to create your own website or blog and don’t have any previous experience of creating a website or managing its content, you will prefer a system that is simple and easy to use and with least technicalities involved. But how would you pick what can serve your purpose best? It’s true that you must determine your needs first to pick the right software package for your website, but how can you pick them without knowing their pros and cons.

To quantify their pros and cons, one must compare their performance and functional aspects, ease of use and learning, appearance and documentation.

However, apart from website owners, developers have certain preferences. In general, drupal developers seem quite satisfied with drupal content management system while Joomla developers seem to blow the trumpets of the available features and functions in Joomla. But here we are trying to find out which CMS is right for the general users and we are not comparing these two from a developer’s view point.

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4
May

Drupal? Should I Use it for My CMS

Getting a search engine friendly website with effective content management system is something that we all dream about. Well, if something can help to realize your dream, it’s none other than the open-source Drupal content management system. With this CMS, individuals, user communities and enterprises can organize, publish and manage content of their websites in an effective and easy way. There are thousands of people and enterprises that making the most of Drupal to power myriad variety of websites.

You may ask why you should use Drupal when other CMS like WordPress, Joomla and many other seem to do equally well and have earned quite name as established content management systems. If you are, too, thinking why drupal, before going into any  details must keep in mind that the world’s leading organizations like the UN, Forbes, the Discovery Channel, AOL, Warner Brothers Records and even Yahoo are using Drupal websites. And it indicates that it has something which makes it a preferable tool for the world’s leading organizations.

Many drupal experts say that Drupal can be the best pick for those who want to develop some SEO-based website development projects. As it allows you to get precise control over your website URL structure and you can find the same in WordPress and you are bound to one kind of permalink URL for all your posts.
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7
Apr

Pace Solutions Comes With Classy Drupal Website Designs Offers This April:

Drupal website designs are classy! Drupal website designs are elegant! That’s why they are limited to those who know well what excellence in web design and development really is. But now Pace Solutions provides small businesses an opportunity to make the most of high quality Drupal website designs in an affordable way. Very precise layouts, impressive colour combination and meaningful logos are some worth-mentioning features of these Drupal website designs. So what’s the catch to utilize this April  with an elegant online appearance? Please keep in mind it’s a limited time offer (from April 1st – 16th) so hurry now!

Indeed, a golden opportunity for small businesses looking for a unique custom designed website at a discounted price. The quality and discounts are, undoubtedly, amazing.

We will amazed at the savings and quality.

This promotion will be giving discount for the following.

This promotion will continue up till 16th of April 2010! Feel free to Contact us or email us at sales@pacesol.com to make the most of this discount offer.

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12
Mar

Joomla Vs WordPress Vs Drupal: The Real Differences

When it comes to their differences, these are quite prominent in front of the general mass over the World Wide Web. All you need to do is pay a close attention to their real and clear-cut differences so that you may be able to distinguish them properly. Let’s discuss Joomla, WordPress, and Drupal differences step-by-step:

Joomla

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joomla website design

When it comes to Joomla, it provides you a platform to efficiently publish and display the optimized website content over the World Wide Web. More importantly, it has plenty of unique features and elements for example:

  • Caching
  • RSS feeds
  • Printable web pages
  • News flashes
  • Blogs Polls
  • Search
  • Language internationalization support

It is designer plus developer friendly because it presents a wider and extensive platform for developers to customize and bring in new features in the system and the potential to get better the look and feel of the custom website is absolutely broadly accepted by designers worldwide. Moreover, it is capable of handling a colossal group of people and has been in proper use since 2008 and 2009.

But the fact of the matter is that Joomla still needs a lot of improvement as well as improvisation when it comes to comparison with WordPress and Drupal. It is not XHTML based and absolutely lacks the option to create multisite.

WordPress

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wordpress website design

There is no denying that WordPress is the most efficient and useful content management system (CMS) worldwide. Therefore it would regularly support you when it comes to blogging and publishing your website content. Interestingly it is being regularly used by almost 202 millions websites these days. It has plenty of unique and versatile features for instance

  • Widgets that can be approved without editing the HTML
  • Search engine friendly
  • Multiple categories to a blog post
  • Allows tagging of blog postings and articles

Although it has many blogging options and profiles but it is not as much effective content management system (CMS) as the others are. Moreover it is not a Developer friendly content management system and it just brings more and more bugs with its new upgrades. But the best advantage of using WordPress CMS is that it is very trouble free to use.

Drupal

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drupal website design

As far as Drupal CMS is concerned, it is a back end system used for managing a range of corporate websites worldwide. Besides, Drupal can be efficiently used for managing both small business websites as well as large business websites globally. It has plenty of features and elements for instance:

  • Registering and Maintaining user accounts
  • Creating and Handling menus
  • RSS feeds
  • Customization of a layout
  • Internet Forum
  • Single or multi User blog
  • Powerful template system

The amazing thing about Drupal content management system is that it is every developer’s heaven worldwide. But when it comes to Drupal’s drawbacks, it is not as much user friendly CMS as the other systems are. But this is the fact most renowned websites are nowadays making use of Drupal for effective and dynamic content management for example, MTV UK, BBC, the Onion, Greenpeace UK and so on.

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26
Feb

Acquia tries to mainstream Drupal with Drupal Gardens

Acquia announced recently they were releasing a new tool called Drupal Gardens that makes it easier to create websites using the popular open source Drupal platform. In a recent blog post Acquia VP of Marketing, Lynne Capozzi wrote about how, rightly or wrongly, some people are intimidated by the idea of building a website using a tool like Drupal.

It’s great for the power users who can build an understanding of how site building in Drupal works, but Drupal Gardens puts this in the hands of less technical end users. It provides an easy path to creating the site, then choosing a theme (either provided or one you create on your own), color schemes, fonts and so forth.

Of course, you can control all of these elements in the Drupal design process regardless of whether you are using a front-end tool or not, but Drupal Gardens makes it relatively easy to build sites and choose site elements within a framework. Acquia believes giving users this flexibility will make it more likely that companies will choose Drupal.

Capozzi says that it will also help companies build marketing campaigns much more quickly:

“There are so many applications of Drupal Gardens I’m anxious to see incorporated into marketing campaigns, but one I believe will really excite my fellow marketers is the ability to quickly and easily create slick, feature-rich microsites for a campaign. Marketers are focused on building targeted audiences and social communities and so many of them see microsites as the primary launching pad for brand and loyalty building.”

We will see how well this tool works for this purpose, but it does clearly put Drupal Site Design within reach of a much broader set of users. The product is currently in private beta.

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8
Jul

Display view inside a view

Drupal 6 replaces the views_build_view by views_embed_view, which make sense at least by the name of function.

$viewName = 'MYVIEWNAME';
print views_embed_view($viewName);

The views_embed_view has 2 default arguments. The second argument allows you to enter the display_id of the view (example: default, page, block, etc). Any additional argument you specify will be passed to the views argument handler. For instance, if you wanted to embed the block view and pass it a list of nodeIDs as an argument.

$viewName = 'MYVIEWNAME';
$display_id = 'block';
$myNodes = array(1, 2, 3);
print views_embed_view($viewName, $display_id, $myNodes);

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