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Below is a short introduction to RSS Feeds, how they work, and why they are used. What is an RSS Feed? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds are a way for you to let your visitors and subscribers know about changes on your site. It is most commonly used to distribute headlines, updates, or even content Read More >

One of the first tasks you may want to do after enabling the forum module and configuring its basic settings is add another forum. This is because the only forum you currently have is General Discussion. In the following Drupal 7 tutorial we’re going to show you how to add another forum called Food Discussion. Read More >

When you initially install Drupal 7, your homepage will show the following message: Welcome toNo front page content has been created yet. This is because you have yet to promote anything to your front page. When you begin to create your first articles in Drupal 7, they will show on your frontpage. As you continue Read More >

By default your Drupal 7 homepage will display your latest articles, which is referred to as a content feed. If you have a specific page you’d like to set as your frontpage, regardless of its content type (such as a basic page or article), you can do so in Drupal 7. How to set the Read More >

In our last article we showed you how to turn off comments for a specific content type in Drupal 7. We will expand upon this further in this Drupal 7 tutorial by showing you how to disable comments for individual basic pages and articles. Please note:The steps below are very similar for most comment types. Read More >

By default, comments are allowed in Drupal 7. Users must first be registered and logged in, however, before they can post comments.   How do users leave comments? Once a user is logged in, at the bottom of pages that allow comments will be a comment form. Users can type in a subject and comment, Read More >

Drupal 7 has a built in system to “clean” URLs so they are search engine friendly. In this tutorial, we’ll explain further what search engine friendly URLS are. With most websites on the Internet being dynamically generated, the URL usually contains information about the query being used to generate the page on the server. Some Read More >

Now that we know the idea behind blocks in Drupal 7, we can create a new block. In the following tutorial we’ll show you how to create a new block in Drupal 7. We’ll also review the various settings that each block can be configured with. To create a new block in Drupal 7: Log Read More >

The menu structure has been created and you have created menu item links for navigation. Now it is time to set the menu up to display on the screen. As mentioned before, this is not an additional menu, but will replace either the main or secondary menu that is on the site. Enabling the custom Read More >

In our last article we explained the differences between regions and blocks in Drupal 7. You should now understand that regions define the structure and layout of a theme, and blocks are pieces of content that are assigned to show up in specific regions of a theme. When assigning a block to a region, you’ll Read More >

As you begin to learn more about Drupal 7, several terms will begin to come into play, including entities, nodes, blocks, and regions. In this article we’ll give you an overview of what each of these terms are referring to.   Entities and Nodes – Content on your website Entities Just about everything in Drupal Read More >

In our last few articles we have been reviewing content types in Drupal 7. At this point you should know: How articles and basic pages are different in Drupal 7 How to write a basic page in Drupal 7 The next thing we need to do now is learn how to create an article in Read More >

Now that you have installed Drupal 7, the next thing we would like to teach you is how to write content. You can think of content as text you will publish to your website, whether it be an About Us type page or a page with the latest news about your business. There can be Read More >

The front page of your Drupal site is often used to display content previews for your other pages. You may have seen this on the front page of other blogs or magazine sites. Visitors are able to review a portion of the content and click on the title if they are interested in reading the Read More >