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Taxonomy allows to categorize content in a drupal website. The basic elements of the Taxonomy module are Terms Terms are used to describe content. Vocabularies Vocabularies are a collection of terms.

Zyxware conducted a 3 day workshop on Drupal at IIT Madras as part of the recently concluded technical festival Shaastra 2014. The workshop was conducted from Jan 4 - Jan 6 by Mr. Anoop John, CTO of Zyxware Technologies.

We are happy to announce that Zyxware is now a Featured Service Provider on Drupal.org, a select club of Drupal providers with only another 4 members from India. This is a recognition of our contributions to Drupal over these years. We thank all our employees who have helped make this possible through their sustained contributions and members of the Drupal community who have guided,mentored and helped us as we grew in the Drupal space.

If you are in the habit of running queries directly on your production database to generate custom reports then you will run into the requirement of having to connect to your Drupal database on the Acquia cloud hosting. One of our clients wanted to do this and this is how we got this working for them. When you host your Drupal site on the Acquia cloud your site resides on a set of different VPSes that runs Varnish, Apache, MySQL and memcache. Additionally you have your staging server, your development server as well as your production servers - all of them being VPSes.

We are happy to announce that we will be conducting a Drupal bugathon at our office at Sasthamangalam, Trivandrum on the 12th of October, 2013. If you are a Drupal developer and you would like to get some guidance on how to contribute to Drupal you are welcome to join us. Bring your own laptops for the session. Our Sasthamangalam office address is SMRA 78, SRKM Hospital Road, Sasthamangalam P. O., Trivandrum, Kerala - 695010 You can call us at 9446069446 for directions. The following would be the schedule.

As announced earlier Zyxware conducted a 2 hour training session on Introduction to Drupal at the MES Advanced Institute of Management and Technology on the 26th of Sep, 2013.

Zyxware, in association with MES - AIMAT, Aluva, Kerala, is conducting a training session on Drupal at MES - AIMAT, Aluva on Sep 26th, 2013. The session is targeted at beginners who wish to learn the basics of building a website using Drupal.

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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.

If you are an organization trying to set up a new website or if you are planning to upgrade your static website to a dynamic website here are some key reasons why Drupal is a good solution for you to bank on.

Maintaining a Drupal site is not just about managing the content on the site and administering users and the configuration. An important part of maintaining a Drupal site is in keeping the site updated with the latest security updates released for Drupal core and also for the contributed modules used on the site.

If you're in search of a reliable Drupal vendor for your next project, read on to discover why Zyxware could be your ideal partner.

Nowadays we can easily access internet in different devices such as mobile, tablet etc. So its necessary to make a website compatible with popular devices like iPhone, iPad etc. In Drupal, we have a simple method to make a website adapt to different devices. In this method we can convert a normal theme to responsive theme easily. To get this we have to modify the .info file and add the media query stylesheets in .info file. We will also have to add the responsive style rules to the separate media query stylesheets

Drupal 8 will be released probably by Dec 2013 or so and when that happens maintenance of Durpal 6 will be stopped. Contributed modules for Drupal will probably take a while more before they have Drupal 8 versions. Until popular contributed modules have stable Drupal 8 versions it would probably be safer to start small projects using Drupal 7.