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Although the Drupal core provides all the basic functionality to run a website you need to have additional contrib modules installed to extract the full capabilities of Drupal. Here are 18 essential modules we have come up with for building a simple Drupal site. You might also find our list of the Top Drupal SEO modules and Top Drupal 6 modules to be of help. Contact us to get professional help to build your Drupal website. Drupal Theming and Drupal Migration are just two of the legion of Drupal services we have on offer.

Drupal is neither rocket science nor designed for developers alone. Any person without technical knowledge and programming skills can build and maintain a Drupal website or multiple sites quickly with little effort. There are a number of books which lets users get in touch with the basics of managing Drupal. We have listed out the Top 5 Drupal books for Drupal webmasters. Also checkout our list of the Top 3 Drupal books for Drupal Developers. If instead you want somebody else to do all the managing part you can hire us to manage your drupal website

One of the best resources for Drupal developers is the official website of Drupal itself followed by blogs created by Drupal users and Drupal based companies. There are also a number of books written by battle hardened veterans of Drupal for other Drupal developers. Any Drupal Developer who wishes to get their hands dirty with Drupal should try out these Top 3 Drupal books for Drupal Developers. If instead you don’t want to get your hands dirty you can always hire us to get your Drupal work done. We can provide a number of Drupal Services from Drupal migration and Drupal SEO to providing a Drupal security audit to help build your Drupal site as quickly and securely as possible.

A majority of the websites on the web are personal blogs and they are a very popular use for a CMS. Drupal provides most of the functionality required by a personal blog out of the box. However Drupal is not just a blogging tool, it is a full fledged Content and Workflow Management System which means that you can prepare for success once you blog takes off in a big way. Having the 10 essential modules for building a personal blog with Drupal will ensure that it takes less effort to have a successful Drupal blog. If you want to build your personal blog using Drupal, do get in touch with us. We also provide Wordpress to Drupal Migration services so that you can provide migrate your existing Wordpress blog to Drupal.

We have released a new Drupal theme targeted at small business blogs. The Business Blog theme - is now available on Drupal.org. You can read more at the home page for Business Blog Drupal theme at our free Drupal themes site. As with our other Drupal themes, the theme is released under GPL 2.

We have released a new Drupal theme targeted at individuals and small businesses. The Black Blog theme - is now available on Drupal.org. You can read more at the home page for Black Blog Drupal theme at our free Drupal themes site. As with our other Drupal themes, the theme is released under GPL 2.

Corporates will find Drupal immensely useful for building their web portfolios. Drupal comes with a good collection of corporate themes as well as a plethora of modules for easy creation and a maintenance of such websites. Here are 10 essential modules for building a corporate website with Drupal. Having Drupal experts to assist you is the fastest way to build a corporate website. We provide a wide range of professional Drupal Services like Drupal Migration Services, Drupal Security Services and Drupal SEO. Contact us to know more

Zyxware conducted a half day workshop on BASH scripting on 15th September at TKM College of Engineering, Kollam. The workshop was conducted as part of the Kerala State Students Convention organized by Computer Society of India at the college. The workshop was open to students from the different CSI chapters across Kerala. The workshop covered the following topics

The trick explained briefly We are not actually going to theme the file upload field as it is presently nearly impossible to do that. Instead we are going to put an ordinary looking 'dummy' input text field over the file field. Next we proceed to make the 'original' file upload field invisible but accessible to the user via CSS. So when a user clicks on the dummy input text field they are actually clicking on the file upload field itself. To make it authentic we are going to copy the file path from the file upload field to the text input field via javascript.

We have released a new Drupal theme targeted at small business websites. The Media Blue theme - is now available on Drupal.org. You can read more at the home page for Media Blue Drupal theme at our free Drupal themes site. As with our other Drupal themes, the theme is released under GPL 2.

We have ported and released another Drupal 7 theme from another popular wordpress theme - Hatch. The Hatch Drupal theme - is now available on Drupal.org. You can read more on the home page for the Hatch Drupal theme at our free Drupal themes site. As with our other Drupal themes, the theme is released under GPL 2.

We have released a new Drupal theme targeted at small corporate websites. The Business Yellow theme - is now available on Drupal.org. You can read more at the home page for Business Yellow Drupal theme at our free Drupal themes site. As with our other Drupal themes, the theme is released under GPL 2.

Developers often overlook CSS as something very simple and not requiring a lot of thought. This leads to poorly thought out CSS rules, CSS abuse, inefficient CSS and ultimately bad rendering performance and slow page load times. Here is a simple tip to improve CSS performance and page load times - avoid descendant selectors.