A truly beautiful Drupal site

Submitted by siteadmin on Sat, 06/07/2008 - 00:12

Have a look at The Vintage Aviator if you want to see a really nice example of a website. Plus it is implemented in Drupal. The only negative comment I would have is that the page load time is rather slow, but that could be because the site has just come out and is getting a lot of coverage.
Here is a link to an article by the author on the story of how he build the site and what tools he used: http://drupal.org/node/267393

Collection of 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites

Submitted by siteadmin on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 18:42

A great article can be found here: CMS Showcase: 31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites which lists (as you may guess) 31 excellent sites.
It is great that an image of the home page of each site is posted, but it would have been even better if a few words were said about each site, particularly what makes them "remarkable".

CMS Evaluation recommends Drupal

Submitted by siteadmin on Wed, 01/02/2008 - 18:30

The article Selecting an Open Source Content Management Solution Using Web 2.0 to Drive Online Sales compares four systems: Drupal, Alfresco, Joomla, and Liferay. There is a chart that evaluates their strengths and weaknesses. The choice was made to go with Drupal, and the article describes how this led to a successful implementation.

Colour test page

Submitted by siteadmin on Mon, 12/31/2007 - 22:56

Regular colours

  • e.g. red is #FFxxxx; where xx varies from 00 through to FF
Colour 00 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 A0 B0 C0 D0 E0 F0 FF
Red                                  
Green                                  
Blue                                  
Cyan                                  
Magenta                                  
Yellow                                  
Grey/2                                  

Excellent list of Drupal websites

Submitted by siteadmin on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 01:39

seo-expert-blog.com has just published The Most Incomplete List of Drupal Sites
http://www.seo-expert-blog.com/list/the-most-incomplete-list-of-drupal-s...
It is a great list!
Two other great listings are: http://www.drupalsites.net/
and: http://unspun.amazon.com/Top-Drupal-Sites/list/show/4583

Installing Drupal on RimuHosting.com

Submitted by siteadmin on Thu, 11/15/2007 - 22:46

Here is how to install Drupal on a CentOS 5.4 Linux installation, hosted on http://RimuHosting.com

Installing Drupal on Centos5

Submitted by Andrew on Sat, 10/06/2007 - 02:37

Please note that more up-to-date instructions are available here:
http://drup.org/installing-drupal-rimuhostingcom

Here is how to install Drupal on a Centos5 Linux installation

  1. Install Centos5 including web server and mysql
  2. log in as root
  3. Update to latest version with: yum -y update yum ; yum -y update
  4. Install modules with: yum -y install php php-devel php-gd php-imap php-ldap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-xml php-xmlrpc curl curl-devel perl-libwww-perl ImageMagick libxml2 libxml2-devel system-config-securitylevel-tui
    Note that this is called system-confi-firewall in CentOS 6
  5. Enable .htaccess: cp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.original
    vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf     and in two places change AllowOverride None to All (may not be needed in CentOS 6
  6. Uncomment NameVirtualHost *:80
  7. Start apache with: service httpd start
  8. Run: system-config-securitylevel-tui and enable firewall for ssh and http, plus port 10000 for webmin
  9. Open a browser window pointed to the server to check if apache is running
  10. Create default page: echo "<html><head><title>Name of Server</title></head><body><h1>Name of Server</h1></body></html>" > /var/www/html/index.html
  11. Make sure server is running by visiting: http://servername/
  12. Create test script: echo "<html><head><title>Test Page</title></head><body><?php phpinfo(); ?></body></html>" > /var/www/html/testphp.php
  13. Make sure php is running by visiting: http://servername/testphp.php
  14. download and install webmin: 
    WMVER=1.630-1
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-$WMVER.noarch.rpm
rpm -U webmin-$WMVER.noarch.rpm
system-config-firewall #to open port 10000
  15. Check it is working by visiting: http://servername:10000
  16. Use webmin to create a virtual server at /var/www/html with no server name. (This will be the default and must come first)
  17. Install MySQL with: yum -y install php-mysql mod_auth_mysql mysql-server php-gd php-mbstring
  18. Start MySQL: /etc/init.d/mysqld start
  19. Now setup MySQL: mysqladmin -u root password rootsqlpassword
  20. Make sure mysqld and httpd start on boot by checking the boxes: webmin / system / bootup and shutdown
  21. Download and install Drupal following the instructions here: http://drup.org/acquia-drupal-svn
  22. Well done! You are finished

Ledalite: beautiful new Drupal site

Submitted by siteadmin on Sun, 09/02/2007 - 01:32

Ledalite has a very attractive new website using Drupal. It is a table-less theme with some javascript effects and subtle shading that makes the site pleasant to look at and to use. The "product quick links" is an interesting feature. There are also some very nice image galleries on the site.

SavannahNOW wins innovation award

Submitted by siteadmin on Tue, 02/20/2007 - 01:54

SavannahNOW, the online arm of the Savannah (GA, US) Morning News has been awarded the 2007 Digital Edge Award for Most Innovative Visitor Participation.
The Digital Edge Awards are the U.S. Newspaper industry's highest honors for online publication. Visit the site at: http://savannahnow.com/

Drupal Training Course (Toronto based)

Submitted by siteadmin on Sat, 02/17/2007 - 20:32

Click here for Drupal Training Courses in Toronto
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