Run Drupal

A default Drupal installation has different Roles for anonymous users and authenticated users. It also has one user defined as an Administrator but he or she is not in a speical role instead the Admin account is simply added to the authenticated users role. This isn’t a big deal most of the time because each module that needs to simply checks to see if the user logged in is the Administrator and if so the module gives the user access to everything. Read more »

Often with a site like this one, where people come to get Drupal help and tutorials, visitors would like to view an article either in a printer friendly format or download it as a PDF. Also at times they may want to email an article to a friend or college who would be interested in reading it. Once again Drupal comes through with a great contributed module to allow us to do this. It is called the Printer, e-mail, and PDF versions module. Read more »

Anyone who has played around with Drupal and other content management systems much knows that sometimes Drupal’s Administration backend can be a bit clunky to work with. You end up navigating through many levels of menus just to change some settings. For example if you would like to Uninstall a module you will need to work your way through the Administer –> Site Building –> Modules menu and then click on the Uninstall tab. Read more »

Back when I was first starting to look at different Content Management Systems (CMS) one of the reasons I decided to go with Drupal was because I heard from different people that it was much more Search Engine Friendly (SEF) when compared to the other CMS’s out there. This excited me not because I was an SEO expert but precisely the opposite – because I knew SEO was valuable but didn’t know what it meant to optimize my sites.

Since then I have learned much more about Search Engine optimization and I have come to two conclusions: Read more »

I just switched rundrupal.com over from a shared hosting plan to a VPS through Linode. It costs a little more but I get full control over the server and the uptime should be much better. Unless I don't do a good job setting everything up. I'll be giving updates on this site as to how the process goes. Right now I have this website running well on it and I'm in the process of getting all the email stuff set up. Here's hoping that all works out.

I've always used GoDaddy for my domain registration. However, I find it really annoying that they make me jump through a bunch of hoops every time a register a site. I hate having to click no thanks to all their extra "features" they want to sell me. I'm also pretty annoyed with the way they run their advertisements. Read more »