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.Adding Community Features To Your Site
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Mon, 05/18/2009 - 19:36Lesson Fifteen of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.
This lesson provides guidance on how to get a community started by configuring the core forum module , the core tracker module and allowing users to be able to set up their own account. Includes a look at the changes required to the Mollom (spam prevention) and Comment Notify (subscribe to comments) modules that were initially added in Lesson Eleven.
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Install FCKeditor Using WYSIWYG API
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 20:26This video tutorial shows how to install FCKeditor using the WYSIWYG API module. WYSIWYG makes it easy to install the most popular content editors on a Drupal site.
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Install Locally With Acquia Drupal Stack Installer
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 23:14This video shows how to install Drupal locally by using the Acquia Drupal stack installer. This is different from my previous localhost install video which required separate installations of Drupal and Wampserver. Acquia's installer is an all-in-one package that installs Acquia Drupal, MySQL, PHP and PhpMyAdmin. Acquia Drupal is a Drupal distribution that comes packaged with many useful contributed modules including CCK, Views and PathAuto.
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Multi User Blogging Setup
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 12:48Lesson Fourteen of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.
This lesson provides instruction on setting up Drupal to support blogging by multiple users. The lesson covers the addition of new users to the site, configuring permissions to allow new users to blog, creating an author list block and a biography block for each author. The lesson also covers the creation of a special "editor" role that will allow designated users limited administration rights for the management of comments and blog posts.
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Configuring User Profiles
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 15:58Lesson Thirteen of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.
This lesson provides instruction on the configuration of user profiles, including enabling profiles for public viewing and adding custom fields by using the core profile module.
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- Configure the Real Name module to replace usernames with a proper name.
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Using Views To Create A Block
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 03/22/2009 - 17:39This lesson shows how to use the Views module to create a block that contains a list of node titles that link to their respective nodes.
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Socializing Content With Ratings And Sharing Links
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 23:18Lesson Twelve of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.
This lesson focuses on socializing your content by allowing your site visitors to easily share and rate site content. Automatic sharing links for sites like Facebook, Delicious, Digg and others are generated by the Service Links module. A star based rating system for nodes is powered by the Fivestar module which also requires the Voting API module.
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Configuring Comments And A Contact Form
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 02/28/2009 - 14:26Lesson Eleven of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.
This lesson focuses on the configuration of blog comments and setting up a site wide contact form. The preview includes instruction on how to protect both comments and the contact form using the Mollom module.
In addition to basic configuration of comments and the contact form the preview also shows how to add a menu item for the site wide contact form and a sidebar block that displays recent comments.
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- Configuration of the Gravatar module which adds user pictures to comments via the Gravatar service
- Configuration of the Comment Notify module which allows site administrators and non-registered commenters to be notified of follow up comments to a post
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Site Administration Basics
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 02/15/2009 - 16:06Lesson Ten of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.
This lesson focuses on the basics of administering your Drupal site. Topics covered include the site Status Report, module and core update status settings. Includes step-by-step instruction on how to update contributed modules and the core Drupal release.
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- Review of database logs
- Setting different administration theme
- Error reporting options
- Cache settings to improve performance
- Adding a special administration menu bar
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Moving A Localhost Site To The Web
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 14:11Lesson Nine of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of videos.
This lesson provides instruction on how to move a localhost Drupal site to a web server. Steps shown in the video include creating a domain, creating a web database, exporting the local drupal database and importing the exported database to the web database.
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- Uploading new settings.php file
- Turning off comments and user registrations
- Reviewing content for errors
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