Drupal

Boost is an amazing Drupal module that can dramatically improve the page speed performance. This can improve the experience of visitors and help a web site cope with unexpected surges in traffic.

Nominations are now open for the 2008 Open Source CMS Award. This is the third year that Packt are running the awards.

You can nominate your favorite open source CMS in four categories:

• Overall Winner
• Most Promising Open Source CMS
• Best Open Source PHP CMS
• Best Other Open Source CMS

REM is using Drupal for its tour website. Drupal is gaining a lot of traction with a lot of high profile websites switching to Drupal recently. I am particularly excited about REM's use of Drupal because I am a huge REM fan (and obviously a huge Drupal fan)!

How to configure a Drupal multisite setup

I was always of the opinion that when people who use Wordpress discover Drupal, they eventually switch to Drupal. This is because I feel that Drupal is far more powerful and flexible than Wordpress.

However, I have noticed that a small trends seems to be beginning with people switching from Drupal to Wordpress.

Upgrading to a new version of Drupal puts the fear of god into a lot of people. However, it does not need to be scary or time consuming. Because Drupal is highly modular, upgrading is a fairly painless exercise. Furthermore, it is necessary to maintain the latest version of your Drupal branch to ensure that you have the latest security patches.

Drupal 6 has finally been unleashed on the world after a year of development and testing. This is thanks to the hundreds of core developers that made this happen.

So what has changed from the Drupal 5 series?

Using the Pathauto module is a quick and easy way of automatically creating meaningful URL's. Instead of having to type in a URL path manually for each node (page, story etc) yourself, it will do it automatically based on set criteria, like the category it belongs to and the title.

One of the annoying things about changing the number of characters for teasers in Drupal is that you have to edit and save every single node (page, story etc) for the change to take effect. Thats ok if you only have 10 pages, but what if you have 1000 or even 10,000 pages? Nightmere times.

The EContent magazine has named Drupal as one of the companies/projects that matter the most to the digital content industry. Drupal joins a range of other companies/projects on the 2007 EContent 100 List.