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When you set out to build a website for your company there are a lot of aspects that you should be considering while deciding on the technology decisions. Based on these different aspects and based on how you prioritize between them the technology decisions that you take would vary. Going for a Content Management System is a no brainer if you wish to manage the content on your site. Both Drupal and Wordpress are good choices for building your new company website. However there are differences between them and this is an attempt to help you make a decision on this.
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Why we spend hours on fixing HTML validation errors? Because we know how much reliability and quality matter when it comes to serving customers through the web. With Drupal, most of the page is generated, and the rest is the content that we type into the editor. If your article contains Markup Validation Errors, it could spoil all the efforts put in building a good website.
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As an organisation, we are committed to the philosophy and culture of Free Software which entails sharing of knowledge and contributing back to the community. To take forward this commitment, we ensure cooperation of all our members in actively developing content in their respective functional areas.
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For getting started with accepting online payments through your Drupal website, you would require the Ubercart module installed and configured correctly with a desired Payment Gateway enabled. But before going to actual Payment Gateways, let us try out configuring Credit Card Payments with default Drupal Test Gateway. Pre requirements: Ubercart module Installed and configured with store, products and cart checkout. Here are the steps to configure Credit Card Payments,
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Backup! Backup! Backup! Always back up your Drupal site's code and database before you actually start making any changes to your site. Do you have access to the control panel? Cool! Go ahead and create a zip file of your entire site, export your db, download it to your local machine and you are done. Read on to know how to backup your Drupal site.
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Webform is a Drupal module that can help webmasters create submission forms like survey forms, contest forms, contact us form etc without any custom programming. Usually webform submissions will result in the data being inserted as a new row into table 'webform_submitted_data'. But our client requirement was to update an existing submitted data from the table 'webform_submitted_data'. If you want to know how to update an existing webform submission then continue reading
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We had faced a peculiar problem with slideshow in colorbox in one of our Drupal projects. Everything works well before an image cache is set to slideshow images to make them same in size. After setting this image cache, colorbox slideshow begin to behave so strangely by showing a very small window with scroll bar and images are hardly visible. Please refer the image below. But after refreshing page images appears with expected size. But loading another page, and returns to the previously loaded page also make the situation again.
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Are you looking for a way manipulate dom elements using javascript based on some values from PHP, then this article is for you. We had recently worked in a Drupal 6 site having the same scenario. Our requirement was to enable some checkboxes using javascript based on the values of some variables available in the backend, This was accomplished using Drupal.settings
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The last version of Drupal 5 was released on Aug 11, 2010 and the maintenance of Drupal 5 was stopped on Jan 5, 2011. The current stable branch of Drupal (as of March 2013) is Drupal 7 and the previous version Drupal 6 will be maintained till the release of Drupal 8 which is expected to happen towards the end of 2013 or early 2014. Drupal 7 will be maintained till the release of Drupal 9 which should happen probably in 2015.
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The technical content posted on Zyxware.com is being managed and reviewed by a team called the Tech Content Team (TCT) and all the content that gets published goes through a TCT review process. Please find below the TCT content quality checklist that is used for the final check on articles before they go live on the site.
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Global Redirect is a functional module which ensures the correct redirection of users to the alias of a given drupal path, thus avoiding duplicated content from multiple URLs. This is very important for SEO because otherwise search engines will see the same content at the Drupal path as well as at its alias causing it to believe that the site is duplicating content at two different URLs
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The methodology which follows quick and well coordinated movement is Agile methodology. Agile refers something which will do very quickly. As soon as the developer completed coding, testing will start and report all the bugs. Rather than testing, a tester can pointed out his ideas also. Quality of the deliverable is emphasized which will avoid the defects coming from the end user.
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