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Jun

Making Drupal Admin UI feel a little like Wordpress

Sun, 13/06/2010 - 16:14 — admin

Recently, i've had a few requests from design companies asking how they can make Drupal Admin UI feel a little like Wordpress because a lot of their clients have become accustom to using Wordpress admin UI and is comfortable with administering their site with a separation of the front and backend. However, these design companies are trying to move away from Wordpress and offer Drupal as a long term solution. Furthermore, the design companies didn't want me to spend a lot of time customizing Drupal so that the admin UI is a bit more like Wordpress. read more »

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Apr

Getting started with Drupal(con)

Tue, 20/04/2010 - 01:29 — admin

This is an excellent first impression/introduction to Drupal and it's community for those that are new or are curious about this open source project. read more »

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Mar

Book review: Drupal for Education and E-Learning by Bill Fitzgerald

Fri, 12/03/2010 - 00:09 — admin

I was really excited when I received this book 'Drupal for Education and E-Learning' from Packt Publishing because I was about to embark on a re-design of a university website and from the given title of the book, it seems to fit what I wanted to know. read more »

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Feb

Time to pick a winner for the Drupal site Blueprints book giveway

Tue, 23/02/2010 - 21:43 — admin

Okay, i've randomly picked out a winner and for the Drupal site Blueprints...

congratulations! pierrelbz was the chosen winner.

You will be contacted on Twitter, please reply to receive your free book.

How did i pick the winner:
To decide who gets the free book each new followers' names on my Twitter list was written on a piece of paper and folded up, then shuffled around in a box. Without looking into the box, I then proceeded to pick out a random name.

Thanks to all that followed me.

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Feb

Free Book giveaway: Drupal 6 Site Blueprints

Tue, 16/02/2010 - 12:01 — admin

The lovely Packt Publishing has given me a free book to giveaway. The book is Drupal 6 Site Blueprints.

To enter all you need to do is follow me on Twitter. Simple as that and i'll randomly select a winner from the list.

This contest starts from today and will end on the 23rd Feb (next Tuesday), that's one week from today.

Good luck to everyone.

Note: Winners from the UK will receive a printed copy. All other countries will receive a downloadable PDF version.

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Dec

Book Review: Drupal 6 Site Blueprint by Timi Ogunjobi

Tue, 29/12/2009 - 22:05 — duvien

Drupal 6 Site Blueprint by Timi Ogunjobi is a hands on practical examples of building 12 different sites. This book is actually very useful if you are starting out with Drupal for the first time. As anyone can tell you with the abundant of modules available it takes a long time to familiarise yourself with which module to choose to get the job done, as well as the time it takes to test them out. read more »