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Entries Tagged as 'Drupal'

MODx and Drupal – Some Thoughts

February 17th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Drupal, MODx, People

Recently on Twitter I made the comment that I love MODx and Drupal equally.  James Rotering from The CMS less traveled found that statement interesting and decided to dig a little deeper.  He sent me some pointed and very detailed questions about my thoughts on the two CMSs and the results of that interview are [...]

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Exploring Drupal 7 Alpha 1 – Screencast

January 24th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Drupal, Screencasts

Drupal 7 Alpha 1 was released a few days ago, on January 15, 2010. This is an exciting release for the Drupal community and Drupal fans everywhere. Drupal 7 has introduced some exciting new changes in terms of a new admin UI and incorporation of major elements of CCK into the core.  In this screencast, [...]

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Win a Copy of the Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide ebook – Blog Contest

April 24th, 2009 · 21 Comments · Drupal, Giveaways

I’m excited to announce a new blog contest at the Coding Pad today!! In partnership with Dorien Herremans, author of the Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide ebook, we will be running a blog contest focused on building community websites with Drupal.
I’ve been building a series of Drupal beginner tutorials here, but I’m [...]

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Gauging User Interest – MODx vs. Drupal

April 20th, 2009 · 11 Comments · Blog News, Drupal, MODx

This post was inspired by a conversation on Twitter, where @ShaneSponagle, my buddy and MODx guru extraordinaire asked me what my blog stats looked like with respect to interest in MODx vs. Drupal, since I blog about both platforms.  What I’m going to present here is a simple, and yet not so simple [...]

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Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 12: Formatting Content

April 18th, 2009 · 33 Comments · Drupal, Tutorials

Welcome to part 12 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6.  Previously we covered:
Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installing Drupal 6
Part 3: Configuring your Site
Part 4: Playing with Blocks
Part 5: Playing with Modules
Part 6: Playing with Themes
Part 7: Installing Modules and Themes
Part 8: Pathauto, Content, and Content Types
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