By default Drupal 7 has two types of views - The Full node view and the Teaser view. This has been the case for all previous versions of Drupal. However if your requirements are different, then you might have to create a custom view that is tailored to meet your specific needs. Check out how to create a simple custom “View mode” for nodes in Drupal 7.

The Drupal Menu System handles both the navigational system (visible menus and links) as well as the Drupal callbacks in the back end. The menu links listed on the header of a Drupal site is normally the primary menu or the secondary menu. These menus are sets of static links that you create via the Drupal admin interface. However sometimes it is useful to have a login / logout link in the primary or the secondary menu depending on whether the user is logged out or logged in. Here is how you add this.

What is CSS? This is a common question asked by most web users hoping to understand how websites are created when they encounter the three letters on the web? Almost everyone is familiar with Html as it is a simple markup language but CSS seems to be an enigma. Since most of our work in developing web apps based on Drupal revolves around CSS, we have decided to share our knowledge with you.

Google Analytics is an invaluable tool if you are a web developer, blogger or if you simply own a website. Few other tools come close to the volume of information  offered by Google Analytics. Besides it is also free of charge which certainly adds to its popularity. However utilizing this huge amount of data offered by Google Analytics is a challenge and if done carefully, the data can be converted into intelligence that alerts you to possibilites of increasing the effectiveness of your website and makes sure that it reaches out t the right audience.  In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to make the best use of Google analytics from a web developers perspective.

Drupal uses a reasonably powerful mechanism to create, prepare and send emails generated within the system. We maintain two modules related to emails in Drupal - Mail Merge and MailQ (Mail Queue) - and get the opportunity to work with the mail subsystem in Drupal. Here is a brief write-up on how the mail system works in Drupal.

Upgrading a Drupal site refers to moving it’s database and files from one major version of Drupal to a later one, to take advantage of the newer features and bug fixes that might not be available for the older version. Upgrading a Drupal site is a pretty effective way to make sure that your Drupal site is currently up to date with all the latest security updates and bug fixes. Old versions of Drupal will naturally be unsupported with the arrival of the new releases. The Drupal community has currently stopped supporting the older versions of Drupal like version 4 and 5 and has moved to Drupal 7. However Drupal 6 is more widely supported. Have a look at the steps required to upgrade your Drupal site from an older version to      Drupal 6.     

One could never forget Nestor, the wise and thoughtful butler of Captain Haddock, in 'The Adventures of Tintin'. Whenever some important guest visited while the Captain was away on an adventure with Tintin, Nestor was always there to receive them and make them feel at home. Never did a guest have to face a closed door or an unanswered phone at Haddock's place, all thanks to Nestor.

By default, Drupal serves all its files publicly via http. This means that any unauthorized user can directly access all the files through a browser by entering its path. This is also true for files which have permissions for them. The solution provided by Drupal, which is to make the entire file system private is resource intensive and can bring down the server. However there is another less costly workaround to this issue. Read on to find out more.

We have ported and contributed yet another drupal theme. This time it is jQ, ported from one of the most popular wordpress themes of the same name. You can see the Drupal jQ theme here.

One of the more cried about limitations of Drupal has been the seeming lack of quality themes. Wordpress, another popular CMS framework, has a vibrant design community and therefor has some breathtaking themes. Additionally all themes published on Wordpress.org are GPLed. We have taken one of the recently created wordpress themes - icandy - and have ported this to Drupal and have contributed it to the community. You can see the Drupal icandy theme here