Being a WordPress devotee, the shocking thing about Drupal is that it doesn't have a backup utility built into the core system. Any content management system that relies upon a back-end database should provide a way to back that database up regularly. Shockingly, Drupal doesn't. But it does have a dedicated community, and there are [...]...

Something I'll be putting on the portfolio here soon - a redesign of my personal blog. This is a redesign of the blog, which runs on Drupal 6 and features a blog and photo galleries. It's not the first Drupal-based theme I've ever created, but certainly the one I'm happiest with. If you want to know a [...]...

Drupal 6 offers built-in actions that can be performed whenever something happens on your site. Typically, you want to use this to get an alert when someone publishes content on the site, or a new user signs up. You might even want to mimic WordPress and get an email alert every time someone leaves a [...]...

Developers Dries Buytaert and Benjamin Schrauwen have announced the release of an all new anti-comment spam system called Mollom. Since Dries is the mastermind behind the community-building CMS Drupal, Mollom seems to have a wider remit than you might find with comparable systems like Akismet. They're not just going after the usual automated comment spam that [...]...

If you've got a community website using Drupal, you might want to protect your site from spammers by applying the rel="nofollow" attribute to any links your users generate. The theory behind this is that you protect your site from linking to 'bad neighbourhoods' an possibly incurring penalties with Google for spammy links. Rel="nofollow" is your [...]...