I love to know who's visiting my site, where from, and what they are looking at. Its interesting information in and of itself but it also helps greatly when adding advertisements to your site. Another thing I like to look at is how many people are using FireFox versus that other internet browser

Google has a great free service called Google Analytics. All you have to do is sign up for the service and then you can have a fairly high quality visitor tracking service. Here's how you get your Drupal site set up with Google Analytics.

Today I added the search floater to run Drupal. A search floater is the search box you see up in the upper right corner of this website. By default if you enable the Search block in Drupal you can add it to a region. For example it could be added to the left content bar. However, I don't like this very much since it takes up a bunch of room. Instead I wanted the search box to float in the upper right of every page.

Adding this was pretty easy. here is the code I added to the page.tpl.php file

Installing Drupal has gotten easier and easier throughout the years. It can be broken down into these steps.

1. Downloading and preparing the Drupal installation files

2. Setting up the mySQL database

3. Running the drupal install program

After installing a new Drupal site you may be wondering what to do next. I would advise reading tons of drupal tutorials, blog posts, and forum posts. However, I know this can be a little overwhelming at first. So here is a list of the top 10 things I think you should do after installing drupal.

You will find many sites online that tell you how to install a module on your Drupal site. The problem is most of them tell you wrong. This simple Drupal tutorial walks you step by step through installing a module the correct way. There are many different ways to install a downloaded Drupal module, but unless you do it this way you will find it much harder to keep track of installed modules and much harder to update as new versions of your module come out. Following this tutorial also makes it easier to upgrade to future versions of Drupal. more...