Category Archives: drupal

Clean URLs with Drupal in Godaddy

Clean URLs is not a default support in godaddy hosting account. So you can enable it easily by altering the .htaccess file. Step 1: Login with your drupal username and password and goto administer –> Site configuration – Clean URL’s … Continue reading

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Workshop on Elearning tools and Techniques

The workshop on Elearning Tools and Techniques at VIT University, Vellore concluded well and nearly 40 participants have participated. Some highlights of the workshop The workshop started as per schedule exactly. There was only a 20 minute presentation for the … Continue reading

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Students Assignment and Project Management using Drupal

Modules Needed Webform Module (download Link: http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=webform) To create form to display the student particulars, assignment information Captcha Module (download Link: http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=captcha) This module is to avoid the automatic submission Go to create content and click Webform A page is … Continue reading

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Modules in Drupal

Modules Operation: administer -> Site builidng -> Modules In the above diagram, the list of modules which comes along with drupal package is available. Some of the modules are enabled and some are disabled. It is upto the user that … Continue reading

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Installing Drupal

Assumptions To get Drupal up and running, you will need all of the following: A domain A web host FTP access to your web host OR A local testing environment For building sites, either a web host or a local … Continue reading

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Drupal Terminology

Drupal, like most software applications, has a specific lexicon. Mastering Drupal jargon is useful for many reasons, not the least of which is that using Drupal-specific terminology can help you search for information more effectively. The glossary in this chapter … Continue reading

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E learning tools

There are various tools available for providing the lecture notes as content, video lectures, audio lectures, etc. Some of the tools are open source and some are paid tools. Its up to an individual to select the tool either as … Continue reading

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How to remove the ?q= in drupal

In drupal, each url will form like this http://www.example.com/?q=node This is somehow very hard to remember and its very odd too… but there is an option available in drupal to clean ?q= Step 1: Administer –-> site configuration –> Clean … Continue reading

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Drupal in Yahoo Small Business Hosting – Issues

While installing Drupal under Yahoo Small Business, there are some issues “Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists.” This issue can be solved by changing the email id in the “site configuration” option under … Continue reading

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