Has your business used a Content Management System (CMS) like Wordpress or Joomla? Have you wondered if there is a way to improve? Luckily, a standout in the CMS field exists, one of the most adaptable and utilitarian CMSs, it is Drupal! It has a capable blend of existing business functions and broad expandability.
You want to build a website and you done enough research on the various CMSes available to have decided on Drupal. You've also done a write up of your site's needs, but you're not sure of the Drupal way or where you should start? The hundreds of upfront hours for reading and learning Drupal just to known which modules and feature sets are most appropriate for your specific use case causing you anxiety? Want to shortcut some of that headache?
Partnership going bad?, domain being held hostage?, your hosting company an unspeakable word?, no matter what your reason, I'll make an emergency backup of your Drupal site and copy the tarballs to wherever you want [1].
To be able to do this, I will need one of these accesses (in order of easiest to hardest):
I have a barebones testing VPS, which, as they are insanely cheap, I think everyone should have one. True, these aren't really usable by retail website owners, but if you're in IT and take QA seriously they're wonderful.
The one big issue with these are having to rebuild them from scratch when you want to try a different set of software packages that will emulate a clean production build and configuration. The solution was relatively easy, but the journey was a pita.
SolusVM's Central Backup seemed to be the ideal solution, but, it's not:
Clients!? Clients are wonderful things. They pay the bills. But they definitely ask you for some odd things.
I have a client who needed 10s of thousands of images, from different sources, to be displayed by the date they were taken. As he didn't want to spend hours in his favorite image editor, checking the properties of each file one by one, he punted the whole thing to me with a: "Hey, take these images, and add them to the gallery and make sure they display by date."
As it's my business to make clients happy, my reply, "Sure. I'll have that for you in a few days."
"uploadprogress" is the usual suspect for Drupal to track the progress of file uploads.
Installation is very straightforward:
Done.
To verify, reload your 'Status Report' page:
D6 or D7: /admin/reports/status
That's it!
Drupal out of the box, properly configured, is very SEO friendly. But don't expect your 10 to 20 page site to get any significant search engine traffic. And by search engine, we're talking Google. Google routinely accounts for about two thirds of all US search engine traffic, and other than China, a significant portion of the worlds search engine traffic.
Absolutely nothing beats a properly configured Drupal site with significant amounts of unique, relevant, similarly topic'ed content.
If you don't want to bother with creating content, you supposedly can "hire an 'SEO guru' who will rocket your site to the first page of Google results and/or sell lots of your product through PPC." I have several problems with these statements.
A site's 'look and feel' in geek speak is called a Template, a Front End Overlay, a User Interface (UI) and the User Experience (UX), or in Drupal, the "Theme." You probably already know that ...
This document offers some guidelines on when you should start theming a Drupal project, just how varied Drupal themes can be, where to find 'free' themes, and steps you can take to reduce your theming costs.
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