Want a Whois search tool in your Drupal powered site? There is a really easy to setup, easy to manage open source module for Drupal called the Whois Module. A simple Module install with a few setup options and you are up and running, giving your site visitors the ability to perform Whois Search Query’s right within your site. One of the many cool things about this module is that the search performed happens with some Ajax, so the results are delivered quickly without the page having to be reloaded. Let me give you an idea of what this looks like: This gives you a general idea of what the module in action will look like within in your Drupal site. With “Watchdog” enabled your Drupal CMS will be logging every search query made through the Whois tool. This data could then be used by you for many possible reasons. [...]

Drupal is a fantastic open source content management system for all types of uses. A particular use that I like to use it for is for all of my Affiliate Marketing websites. While I love using WordPress for my blogs, I have found Drupal to much more efficient and flexible for me with my affiliate websites. So with a couple years worth of experience with using Drupal for this purpose, here are the 10 Drupal Modules that I found to be essential to my affiliate marketing success. 1. Administration Menu This module for Drupal adds a simple javascript dropdown menu that shows up when you as the administrator logs in to edit your site. The biggest reason I love this module and use it so often is because it allows you to quickly access every administration item within one click. This speeds up management time tremendously. 2. Page Title Module [...]

For those of you out there who use the Drupal content management system for any of your web projects, I would like to share with you the open source Captcha module that I use frequently. It’s quite simply called ‘Captcha’ and it works perfect for both versions 5 and 6 of Drupal. Installing this module will help you fight off spammers who are trying to spam you through your contact and comment forms. There are a ton of features with this module. If you have multiple web forms on your Drupal powered site you can enable Captcha for some forms while disabling it for others. You can enable/disable Captcha depending on if the visitor is a logged in user or not. And you also have option of using an Image Captcha by enabling the Image Captcha module that comes with this module. With the Image Captcha you have all sorts [...]

I’d like to introduce my first free Drupal theme. It’s called the Mixer Theme. It’s a simple CSS, clean style theme. 900 pixels wide and is for Drupal version 6. My idea was to create a free theme that is ready to use out of the box. But simple and clean enough to easily customize for your own needs. The Mixer Theme also utilizes some good looking typography which makes it ideal for blogging. Also included in the theme is psd file for the Mixer Theme logo in case you want to use the same font and create your own. This theme is based of the free Nixer Drupal theme.The font used for the logo is the Grunge Serifia font by SynergyDigital. The theme is extremely lightweight and fast. It supports both left and right sidebars. All CSS and XHTM is valid. Should look identical in Firefox, IE, and Safari. [...]

One of the knocks on Drupal has been it’s lack of high quality theme contributions. This was also an assumption on my part. I want to apologize for assuming that this is the case. Drupal actually has some fantastic free contributed themes. And although there may not be as many as it’s counterpart WordPress, you do have some fantastic options with Drupal. I have compiled a list of the 24 most stunning free Drupal themes in the community to-date. These are the best of the best and you won’t find better ones anywhere. Not yet anyways. But with Drupal’s bright future not so distant, there is sure to be more added to this list in the coming months. I’ve also compiled a list of the best Premium Drupal Themes as well on another page. 1. Ebizon Redfire Compatible with Drupal 5 & 6 Ebizon RedFire is a strict xHTML validated, standards [...]

I wrote a post quite a while back about Drupal & Ubercart and got an overwhelming response. So apparently my audience loves Ubercart! Which is a good thing considering Ubercart is “da bomb.com” if you know what I mean. So I wanted to take some time and put together a tutorial on how to Install Drupal & Ubercart and get it up and running. In this case I am using a Dreamhost server which works perfectly with Drupal and Ubercart. Step 1: Download Drupal version 5 and Ubercart 1.7 At the time I am writing this tutorial, this is the most recent production version of Ubercart. And it requires version 5 of Drupal. Let’s Install Drupal! Step 2: Upload the Drupal contents into your directory of choice via FTP. In this case I created a new directory called “Ubercart” and uploaded all files located in the “drupal” folder into it. [...]