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Administration Menu

Administration Menu
Provides a theme-independent administration interface (aka. navigation, back-end). It's a helper for novice users coming from other CMS, a time-saver for site administrators, and useful for developers and site builders. Administrative links are displayed in a CSS/JS-based menu at the top on all pages of your site. It not only contains regular menu items — tasks and actions are also included, enabling fast access to any administrative resource your Drupal site provides. Showcase and Quality Assurance Test-drive in various themes on the demonstration site or watch a short demo reel or a installation tutorial video. Behaviour and Integration Works in all themes and all browsers.Exposes all administration links including all tabs/tasks and actions to provide direct access to any page.Extensible with add-on features by other modules. Related modules Installation Documentation Credits Current maintainers: This project has been sponsored by: unleashed mind Drupal consulting and development.

A Recipe for a Rapid Drupal Site--Part I, Gathering Your Resourc Building a Drupal site can be done very quickly and inexpensively under the right circumstances. You need no programming or CSS skills and limited skills using FTP as long as you are willing to make compromises. Yesterday, my wife and I launched Trauma Adoption after about a week of effort in the evenings. There is still more to do on the site, but it was very quick to put together. We will use a contributed Drupal themeWe will use only contributed Drupal modulesThe extent of "custom" work will extend to using CCK and ViewsWe will live with what Drupal outputs out of the box The steps... A) Obtain a domain and secure hosting. B) Sketch out what you want the site to do and the main areas that people will go to. What we have here is user roles/experience at the most basic level. C) Gather your resources! Drupal 6.x From the Modules section on Drupal.org: Get yourself a contributed theme from Drupal.org's Theme Repository.

For the newbies - Our Top 10 Drupal modules for web design and development using Drupal I remember a long while ago when I first started using Drupal as the framework for my web design/development projects I had no idea where to start! I'd just like to offer this post as advice to all the people starting out on the path of Drupal. I just wrote this for my company and thought it might be useful here too. As a website design agency, we use Drupal as the base for our websites, giving us a good website development platform to start from. Drupal allows us to mould it's already sturdy and secure code to our ways, allowing us to produce high quality websites in less time than most companies. The content management system is already loaded with features, but most of the time our clients want that little bit extra bang for their website. Administration MenuWhile not the most important module out there, it does speed up website development hugely. PanelsAlthough this module has been around for quite some time, we've only just discovered the joys of Panels.

Drupal Templates from your Photoshop Design in Seconds | psd 2 C Drupal Templates from Your Photoshop Design in Seconds Now you can build a Drupal Theme in Photoshop, name some layers for the content that Drupal will provide, convert the PSD file to a fully functional Drupal (version 6.x) Theme, copy it into your existing Drupal install and it works. Drupal is an amazing CMS (Content Management System) with tons of features right out of the box and thousands more available as modules you download and install to your Drupal website. Drupal is available for free here: You can define layers by naming them exactly (the whole name, not just the portions that start with underscore) as 'left_drupal' for the left column content, 'content_drupal' for the main content section, 'right_drupal' for the right column content, 'primarylinks_drupal' for the primary links menu items and 'secondarylinks_drupal' for the secondary links menu items. Here is the first working example:

40+ Essential Drupal Modules If you are new to drupal, then this list is for you. These are some of the best of the best drupal modules. Everything from standard framework modules, to location and mapping is covered. The Big Three "The big three" are important enough that they deserve a category of their own. Content Construction Kit (CCK) - Part of drupal 7; still a contrib in drupal 6. I believe Panels + CCK & Views is a hint at what drupal will look like 3 years into the future. For Administration Sanity Admin Menu - Quick Dropdown menu to all admin areas. Content and SEO Pathauto - Automatically create human readable URLS from tokens. Navigation Menu Block - Lets you split menus into separate blocks based on depth. WYSIWYG Editors + Image Uploading WYSIWYG API - The standard integration module. Video and Image Handling Filefield - Base CCK file upload field. User Profile, Ratings & Notifications Content Profile - The core profile module sort of sucks. Stuff Marketers Will Love Events and Calendars Location and Mapping

Dozen websites a Drupal User should not miss - Geshan's Blo Its been around 2 years now I've been involved in Drupal. I wanted and still want to try my hands in module development for Drupal but have not been able to do that ;-). Anyways here is a list of 12 sites except www.drupal.org that I see for Drupal Related things, hope you like it.(All links open in a new window) 1.www.drupaldojo.net 2.www.mydrupal.com3.www.drupalace.com 4.www.alldrupalthemes.com5.www.lullabot.com6.www.drupaleasy.com 7.www.drupalcodesearch.com8.www.drupaldude.com9.www.drupaltherapy.com 10.www.11heavens.com11.www.drupal-themed.com12.www.drupalcoder.com Its a plain list no description as I know you'll have to see the site to find out what it offers.

Drupal Modules - Search, Rate, and Review Drupal Modules 7 well designed Drupal Sites - Geshan's Blog Drupal theming is not as easy was it look. Drupal theming system is very flexible and robust but as the no. of modules increase the no. of CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) files also go up this causes problems in theming. The multitude of modules you use can be hard for the themer and changes in last moment is difficult to tackle. For standard compliant browser's like Firefox and with use of Firebug theming might not be too hard but IE spoils the soup with all unpredictable output. 1. (Try some Lemon Water :-D) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. (Last but not the least) See the sites, see the HTML source of the above sites and use some firebug to know the intricate CSS details :-).

Wysiwyg Allows the use of client-side editors to edit content. It simplifies the installation and integration of the editor of your choice. This module replaces all other editor integration modules. No other Drupal module is required. The Wysiwyg module supports any kind of client-side editor including HTML editors (a.k.a. The Wysiwyg module also provides an abstraction layer for other Drupal modules to integrate with any editor. Discussions happen in the Wysiwyg group, and in IRC #drupal-wysiwyg. Installation Download and install the module as usual.Go to Administer » Site configuration » Wysiwyg, and follow the on-screen installation instructions that are displayed there.Follow the on-screen installation instructions. Further documentation Supported editors/plugins Editors: CKEditor, FCKeditor, jWysiwyg, markItUp, NicEdit, openWYSIWYG, TinyMCE, Whizzywig, WYMeditor, YUI editor. Contribute To complete the big picture, this project not only needs hands-on development, it also needs funding.

10 must have Drupal Modules - Geshan's Blog Drupal is one of the most flexible, modular and customizable open source Content Management System (CMS) powering thousands of websites (my list here). It is not only easy to kick start a site using Drupal but advantageous in numerous ways, primary the seamlessly pluggable modules and themes make Drupal an obvious choice. Drupal 6 is out and being widely used but modules of Drupal 5 have not been fully transformed to Drupal 6. Here are 10 must have modules in your Drupal 5 site to have solid base for your site. A. 1. 2.TinyMCE: Tiny Mexicode Editor claims to be the most popular rich text editor for form text area. 3.Views: is the life save for Drupal site admin or even Drupal Developers. B.Add Some Jazz: 5.Image: This module with its sub modules like image cache, image gallery, image attach lets you handle your images in a coherent manner. 7.Light Box 2: is a modal window module that lets you overlay content on top of the pages in another window. Geshan Manandhar

FAQ Overview Installation Configuration Third-party module integration Known issues Installation Q: I installed and selected an editor for a format but there were no buttons in the toolbar? A: You need to edit the profile you assigned to the format and check one or more buttons under "Buttons and Plugins". Q: I got it working for Garland and other standard themes, however, when I switch to my custom theme no editor shows up? A: Please ensure that $scripts is output before $page_bottom in page.tpl.php of your theme. Q: I'm getting a Javascript error "u.indexOf is not a function" when viewing a page that should have TinyMCE on it. A: Did you recently install the fbconnect module? Q: Why do I get "Object doesn't support this property or method" in IE7, no matter what editor I use with Wysiwyg? A: The Chatblock module is known to cause this problem. Q: Why do I get JavaScript errors starting with "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input /sites/all/libraries/..." with all editors? Configuration

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