Drupal

Blogs Navigation

How to make Blogs into part of Book Navigation?

In Drupal, when you 'create content', you can opt to set the new article as different 'types' like 'book page', 'page', 'blog entry', 'story', and so on.

I had quite a few blog entries on one of my Drupal sites. One of the great things about 'blog entry' on Drupal is that Drupal will automatically set them out for you in chronological order. And since blogs are often like journal/diaries, that is a very handy and logical arrangement.

Book Navigation

What is Drupal Book Navigation?

The image to the right shows an example of a (Drupal) 'Book Navigation'.

Private Content

I wanted a (Drupal) space where I could have content that is not accessible to anyone but myself. I have been thinking about this for a while and have not been able to find a feature on Drupal itself that would do this for me.

What does not work

I tried creating a new content type:

About the Aggregator Module

Drupal's Aggregator module helps you get fresh content (RSS feeds) from other sites and places it, in summary form, on your site. It is pretty cool and powerful module if you want to get fresh automated content for your Drupal site.

With this module, you can:
* add, edit, and/or delete feeds (RSS content from another site)
* decide how often those feeds are updated
* group them into similar categories

RSS Enable (i.e. Syndicate) your Drupal site

I said in "RSS Made Simple" to replace the word "syndicate" (or any variations of that root word) with "subscribe" (especially if you are an RSS user/reader and not a publisher) to get a quicker, better understanding of RSS. But here, you are in the role of a "publisher" - someone who has a Drupal site and would like visitors to subscribe to your site's contents via an RSS feed.

Drupal Teasers - How to Style

'Teasers' are (I think) the short summaries that can appear on your Drupal front page. The default look of these Drupal home-page summaries or teasers is not always the most attractive look you might want to have. So how do you style it and make it look the way you want?

Drupal Links - How to Change Style and Colour

This is another quickie Drupal tutorial. Again, more of a pointer than a full blown step-by-step guide. Even though I have changed the default styling for the links on a Drupal site before, I still have to think and search to try and find it each time. So this quick Drupal pointer is as much for me as you.

Sidebars - changing Width or Style

This is a very quick tutorial ~ more a pointer than a tutorial about how to change the sidebars on your Drupal site.

Adding a Favicon to your Drupal Site

There are many favicon (favourite icon) generators out there - many of them very good and free. You can just Google for them. The one I use and like is FavIcon from Pics.

It is very simple.