Saturday, 30 June 2012

Drupal 7 New Features

Let’s take a look under the hood…
Easier installation
The installation process has been simplified. Drupal supports most web servers (Apache is recommended), PHP 5.2.4+, and most databases (MySQL 5.0.15+ is recommended).
Improved administration panels
The administrative interface has been overhauled to make it slicker and simpler. A new configurable shortcut bar provides quick access to the most important tasks:
Drupal 7 administration screen

More flexible
Drupal 7 allows you to define your own content structure and add custom fields to pages, users, comments and other types of content. More than 800 modules are known to be compatible with the new version.
Speed and scalability
Drupal is fast and can handle huge amounts of traffic with better caching and improved JavaScript and CSS optimization.
Accessibility
Accessibility is better and Drupal now offers semantic web support with RDFa.
It’s still open source
Drupal remains a capable CMS which can be downloaded, adapted and used by anyone for free.
The Drupal 7 tour video provides more information…

January 7 is Drupal 7 Day!

The release of Drupal 7 will be celebrated around the globe on January 7, 2011. Head over to drupal7releaseparty.org and join the festivities (or is it too early in the year for more celebrations?!)
You can also monitor a stream of events on Twitter’s #d7rp and #d7rp_yourcity hashtags. Drunken photos are also likely to appear on the d7rp Flickr group.
Have you used Drupal 7? Do you like it? Is it an improvement? Do you prefer another CMS? Will you be doing anything to celebrate on January 7? Comments welcome…

Friday, 29 June 2012

DRUPAL - IMPRESSIVE CMS, EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY SUPPORT

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Drupal is also a great content management system for non-programmers due to the high usablity focus of the Drupal development community. The system is also very efficient. It is written in PHP and works with either MySQL or PostgreSQL databases. For power users and developers, there are numerous extensions and add-ons, as well as an integration approach for more sophisticated solutions. eApps® Hosting is pleased to offer and support Drupal Hosting.

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Adjust Computing Resources to Meet Demand
MySQL or PostgreSQL

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Resources

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ISPmanager Control Panel User Guide
Drupal Project Home Page
Drupal Wikipedia Page

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Thursday, 28 June 2012

What's New in Drupal 7

Drupal 7 is released. Download the full release version.

Here is a summary of changes introduced to Drupal 7. You can also see the complete Drupal change log.

New Minimum System Requirements:

This is not a complete list of requirements. Please read the complete list of requirements.

Database: MySQL 5.0.15 or PostgreSQL 8.3
PHP Version 5.2 or higher
PHP Memory: 40M - 64M

Security:

More secure implementation for scheduled tasks (cron.php).
More secure password system.
More secure log-in system.
Modules can be updated via the web.

Usability:

Administrative links to edit existing page elements are now available on each web page, without having to go to an administration page first.
Improved support for integration of WYSIWYG editors.
Added more drag-and-drop for administrative tasks.
Permissions now have the ability to handle more meta-data (permissions now have a description).
User 1 created as part of the installation process.
Added features to the default install profile (tagging on the Article content type).
Setting up automated task runs (cron) can now be achieved via Drupal's configuration alone, without having to install any scripts on the web server.
Redesigned password strength validator to make it kinder and gentler, and clearer.
Renamed "input formats" to "text formats".
Added support for default text formats to be assigned on a per-role basis.
Moved text format permissions to the main permissions page
Added "vertical tabs", a reusable interface component that features automatic summaries and increases usability.
Improved time zone support
Removed per-user themes: Contributed modules with similar functionality are available.
Added new "Shortcuts" module to allow user to create their own menu for the pages they visit the most.

Database:

Added query builders for INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, MERGE, and SELECT queries.
Support for master/slave replication, transactions, multi-insert queries,delayed inserts, and other features.
Added support for the SQLite database engine.
Default to InnoDB engine, rather than MyISAM, on MySQL when available for greater scalability and data integrity.

Several Performance Improvements Implemented

Documentation:

Hook API documentation now included in Drupal core.

News aggregator:

Added OPML import functionality for RSS feeds.
Added feed update options.

Search:

Added support for language-aware searches.

Testing:

Added test framework and tests.

Theme system:

Removed the Bluemarine, Chameleon and Pushbutton themes. These themes live on as contributed themes
Added "Bartik" theme as the default user interface theme.
Added "Seven" theme as the default administration interface theme.
Added "Stark" theme to make analyzing Drupal's default HTML and CSS easier.

File handling:

Files are now first class Drupal objects with file_load(), file_save(),
and file_validate() functions and corresponding hooks.
Files use PHP stream wrappers to enable support for both public and private files and to support pluggable storage mechanisms and access to remote resources (e.g. S3 storage or Flickr photos).
Added a field specifically for uploading files, previously provided by
the contributed module FileField.

Image handling:

Improved image handling, including better support for add-on image
libraries.
Added a field specifically for uploading images, previously provided by the contributed module ImageField.

Better Support for Multisite Installations

Added RDF support

Better support for search engine optimization and web linking

Added ability to add custom fields

Provides most of the features of the former Content Construction Kit (CCK) module.
Custom data fields may be attached to nodes, users, comments and taxonomy terms.
Node bodies and teasers are now fields instead of being a hard-coded property of node objects.
Fields are translatable.