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Welcome to part two of the menu creation tutorial series. At this point, we have already created a new menu in Drupal 7 and are ready to add links to it. The links are the actual menu items that your visitors will click on to visit pages within your website. Here is where we will Read More >

Now that we’ve covered the basics behind menus in Drupal, you may want to begin creating your own custom menu. There are a few steps involved in creating your own custom menu and they are covered in this two part article. The first thing you need is a basic menu structure. As this is a Read More >

Menus are one of the most powerful attributes of Drupal 7 and have been around since the early days of Drupal. Menus are powerful because they provide ways for your visitors to get to specific pages on the site. Menus are intuitive as well. If you edit the alias or path of a page, the Read More >

You can change the time zone for your Drupal 7 website at any time. You can even allow users of your website to set their own time zones as well. This allows the dates on pages, articles, posts, etc. to display in a timeframe that is meaningful to the viewer. Changing the time zone for Read More >

During the initial installation of Drupal 7, you were never asked for a slogan; however you can easily add one. A slogan is a basic tagline for your website. Adding a slogan is easily accomplished through your dashboard. To add a slogan to a page in Drupal 7: Log into your Drupal 7 Dashboard Go Read More >

In the previous tutorial, we showed you how to block an IP in your Drupal 7. There may be times you need to remove the block. This can be done through your Drupal 7 Dashboard. To unblock an IP address in Drupal 7: Log into your Drupal 7 Dashboard Go to Configuration Click on IP Read More >

You may find it necessary to block a specific IP address from accessing your Drupal 7 website. Perhaps they are a spammer or have been attempting to break into the site to vandalize it. This can be done very quickly through your Drupal 7 admin dashboard. Log into your Drupal 7 Dashboard Go to Configuration Read More >

In our last few articles, we introduced you to the idea of Search Engine Friendly URLs and walked you through the steps for enabling clean URLs in Drupal 7. At this point we have all the right settings in place, and we just need to setup our custom aliases! Continue reading to learn how to Read More >

Now that you know how to create basic pages in Drupal 7, you can set one or more of those pages to be on your website’s Home (or front) page. This is easily done through the Drupal 7 dashboard. Promoting to the first page just shows the title and the first portion of the actual Read More >

Before being able to add the contact form into your main menu, you should have already installed the contact module and configured the settings. Now, you need to create a way for your website’s visitors to actually find and access the form. You can add a contact link to your main menu via the Drupal Read More >

Now that you have installed the “contact” module in Drupal 7, it’s time to create and configure the contact form. Log into your Drupal Dashboard Go to Structure >> Contact form Click Edit next to the default Website feedback category Fill in the fields appropriately. Category Enter a category (more like a title) for your Read More >

Drupal 7 comes with many modules pre-installed with the default installation, but not all of then are enabled out of the box. The contact form module is one of the more popular ones. A contact form is a page where visitors will enter information into a form and then submit the information to you. It Read More >

Drupal has a built-in feature to display a maintenance mode page when you are working on your website. When maintenance mode is enabled, only users with the “Use the site in maintenance mode” permission will be able to access the website and perform maintenance. All other visitors will see the maintenance mode message. Authorized users Read More >

Drupal 7 is extremely versatile and has many customization features. In addition to the themes your site visitors see, Drupal allows you to change the look and feel of your admin dashboard by setting a separate theme just for it. By having a separate theme for the admin section it allows you to distinguish between Read More >

After installing Drupal, you are ready to begin creating your new site. The vast majority of tasks are done via the administration dashboard. Follow the instructions below, or watch the video on YouTube, to learn how to log into your administration interface. How to Log into the Drupal Admin Interface You have successfully logged into Read More >