drupal planet

This past Wednesday at Drupalcon Paris 2009, Acquia, a company who provides commercial support for the Drupal content management system, revealed a sneak peak to attendees of their new project Drupal Gardens. Drupal Gardens is the company’s new “software-as-a-service” version of Drupal specifically targeting non-technical users and designed to speed up the design and deployment of Drupal social publishing sites. This new software will not only keep Drupal competitive with other hosted publishing platforms but also extend its reach to new users who might be intimidated by the technical adoption barriers that any CMS present.

Drupal Gardens was built on Drupal 7 and is a hosted webs service that includes design tools similar to blog publishing platforms. There are no skill set prerequisites or ownership of hosting environments required. According to the announcement, Drupal Gardens will include: Read more »

As I make my way to the City of Angels today, I would like to dedicate some time in honor of one my cinematic favorites, The Big Lebowski. I would also like to rally other passionate folks within the Drupal community to join me Friday evening for some burgers at the In-N-Out Burger on UC-Irvine’s campus, followed by bowling at the Irvine Lanes.

In-N-Out Burger
4115 Campus Dr.
Irvine, CA 92612

Irvine Lanes
3415 Michelson Dr.
Irvine, CA 92612-1605
949-786-9625 Read more »

At this point in your SEO life cycle, you just began using Drupal to manage your site and are looking to properly set up the correct, basic modules from it’s core package. Drupal Core comes with some useful modules that will enable your site to establish a healthy, ongoing relationship with all the search engines and their algorithmic spiders. Drupal comes very friendly out of the box, but it may take a few modules to get you the momentum you are looking for to climb up the SERPs. Here are three necessary Drupal SEO module activations you should make, in order to achieve the SEO success you want for your site. Read more »