Drupal

Did you know that Drupal has been the content management system (CMS) for a lot of popular organizations and companies across the world such as the White House, Al Jazeera, The Economist and World Economic Forum? Drupal provides a flexible platform for creating innovative and vibrant community web portals, personal websites, eCommerce sites, social networking sites, newsletters and a lot more with absolute ease. Moreover, it comprises extremely powerful modules that can be used for building large, complex sites, and it's the best platform that exists today for SEO.

The surge in the use of mobile devices and the ease of accessing the Internet through various devices such as tablets, smartphones and smart watches (rather than the traditional desktop and laptops) have changed the way websites are being built and accessed.

Agile is to project management what OOPs (Object Oriented Programming) concept is to programming languages (like PHP, Java, C). It divides the complexity of large projects into bite-sized chunks. Compared to a traditional sequential process like Waterfall, Agile promotes a disciplined project management process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation. It encourages teamwork, self-organization and accountability.

Discover what you should look for before choosing a Drupal development company for your business needs.

When Dries Buytaert and Hans Snijder wrote Drupal as a message board that would help them to communicate news and announcements between the student communities, little would they have imagined that it would become an open source in 2001 and go on to become an extremely popular Content Management platform.

Internet users rely on popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing to find websites containing specific information. Almost all websites depend on search engines to drive traffic. So having your website on the top page of Search Engine Result Pages (SERP) is of prime importance.

Occasionally we might come across 500 Internal Server Errors on our website. Are you getting the same error? If yes, let us find out more about it.

Suppose you have Drupal website where user can purchase product through online. The site allows two types of users such as Registered user and guest user.The site consist of Checkout Process so that customer can enter address details, card details in order to reach the product by hand. Some of the test case against Checkout Page is given below:-

Owl carousel, Is a responsive image or content carousel with various customization option. Views has an owl carousel plugin to making it easy for the integration of owl carousel with Drupal.

Now a days, website handles important functionalities like online transactions (payments, data transfer) etc. Therefore the security of the websites should be ensured or security testing should be carried out before taking the website to live. Security testing is a testing method in which we ensure that the confidential datas of a website are accessible only to the intended people and not to others. In this article, I have included a brief note on how to test Secure Pages module on a Drupal site.

We needed to get the description of a site automatically from its url after parsing the HTML markup, for one of the Drupal sites we were working on. This is a task that can be easily accomplished by using the PHP curl library. Read on to know how to use a php script and curl to download the contents of a website.

Slideshow is one of the common functionality you would find in the homepage of websites. It is nothing but the slides with text/pictures used to give an idea of the website. It can be used to summarize the various aspects of the company into a compact and user-friendly slider. Slideshows can be of different designs. Some of the websites use buttons to highlight the navigation of the slides while others use numbers, thumbnail images and so on. Here I have included an image, in which numbering is used for highlighting slider navigation.

Nodequeue is a module in Drupal which allows users to enlist, remove, arrange and display a queue of nodes. It has a drag-and-drop interface which facilitates the manual re-ordering of the queue. Even without the edit permissions to nodes, users are allowed to add and remove nodes from the queue. This module is usually used on sites which have features that allow users to manually control the order of display of nodes.

Suppose your Drupal website has the facility to allow user to register in your site. In most of the cases User's e-mail address and username will be unique. In this article will be explaining the cases to be noted for the user registration process.

Performance testing is one of the testing methods which is carried out to ensure the quality of the product/website we deliver. It mainly focuses on the speed of the application, possible load the product can support, amount of stress the website can handle, user's access to the website etc. Following are the some of the checklists that you can refer while carrying out the performance testing of your application. Read on to know more.

How to access the Drupal admin panel, when the login block is disabled? This is a common question among Drupal beginners. Read the article to know about the details.