As I had been occupied most of my time by this great open source CMS lately, I would to share my experiences withyou. If you use, you will learned to value drupal at least for its vast amount of extremly useful modules, flexible user management and easy-to-handle content editors.

As basic requirements one needs a hosting account which has php (version 5.2 or higher) and mysql installed. Download the latest versions here, I’d recommend to choose version 6.x as most of the modules and themes are not available for 7.x, which is still in development status, but will come up with neat features.

On first hand you will have to set up a mysql database, no worries you will just have to specify just the database name, a username and a password! Now you upload the drupal core file into a folder in your webspace. After doing so you reach your drupal installation via www.yourdomain.com/[drupal installation folder]/install.php .

The setup is really easy, you will just have to complete these steps:

1. After uploading you have to copy ./sites/default/default.settings.php file to ./sites/default/settings.php (read/write attributes have to set to 766, you must change that right after the installation, due to security reasons) and create a new folder called “files” in ./sites/default/ this folder and its future subfolders must have to be writable (write attributes have to set to 766).
2. Start the Installation, here you have the the chance get a check whether there is a drupal version translated into your language. If you’d like another language, you will have download the translated version and upload it to your server. Anyway you might wish to have a multilanguage site, then the english version will be fine you can install different languages via the i18n module.
3. Indicate database name, username and password of the database you created before.
4. Create your Administrator login access data by providing a username, password and emailadress. This very first user will have administrative rights, so you should use a secure password.
5. That’s it!

Now it’s time to tune up your brandnew drupal site a little bit… This will be done by installing modules!

Here’s a list of modules I’d recommend to install up front, no matter what kind of site you are intending to create:

Pathauto

This one creates nice URLs derived from the titles of your content pages. As you know this good for SEO purposes and you do torture your user with cryptic page titles. Requires the token module to be installed and activated in advance!

CKEditor – WYSIWYG HTML editor

A big helper! Especially if you’re building a site, whose content has to created or edites by not so web experienced fellas, I think you know whom I’m talking about. As an addition you should install the ckfinder filemanager, so you are able to offer no-brainer file integration and upload to your site. Before your content editors have the pleasure of the easy working with This fine editor, you have to pain to install and configure it. Now I will not offer a step by step manual, I try to deliver it later on. You will have download the drupal module files and copy the core files of the editor into the “” folder in the drupal module itself. The essential editing software files you can download at ckeditor.com. If there are serious problems just post a comment and I try to help you out!

Backup and Migrate

This should be self explaining, just to put you on the save side. You can schedule backups and store them on your or you can download them. Saved my sorry ass several times ;-)

Google Analytics

You could also paste the google into the template files, but this modules makes this procedure needless.

Internationalisation

If you like the setup your site and backend in several language, this module will do the trick. You will have to lookout for language packs afterwards and you get them here, including an overview far the translations are finished. Addiditonally I’d check out the Language Icons Module, providing you nice litte flags for every installed language pack.

Sitemap

Using the sitemap module you can add an automatically generated sitemap, including all your subpages, categories or menues.

So, that should fine as a starter, soon I’lltry to give an outlook about more sophisticated modules like views or content construction kit and how add and modify themes. Have fun creating sites with drupal!

Hope you like it.

The own browser closes an important gap in the Google web portfolio, offering already email and office applications, online advertisement, analysis tools, a feed reader, an instant messenger, blog software, online photo albums, translators and not to forget the different websearches.

So it’ll be interesting, what exactly they will deliver…

But as Michael Arrington from Techchrunch said, one should think about whether we really want Google to know everything we do online.

(Btw, Techchrunch.com seems to be offline, any coincidence with their critic…?)

• Do not show the “Close Tab” Button on all open Tabs
  FF3 shows the “Close Tab” by default on every tab, if you do not want it to do so, change the config here:

  Parameter: browser.tabs.closeButtons
  Default value: 1
  Possible modifikations:

  • 0 [only shows the close button the active tab]
  • 1 [show it on all tabs]
  • 2 [do not show any close buttons on the tabs]
  • 3 [show only one closing button at the end of the tabs row]
• Adjusting the width of the tabs
  Firefox displays open tabs with a minimum width of 100 pixels, with many opened tabs the user will have to scroll the tab bar. To avoid scrolling or reduce it you can lower that minimal width.

  Parameter: browser.tabs.tabMinWidth
  Default value: 100
  Possible modifikations:
  0 [disables scrolling completely, any other values will determine a new minimal tab width]

• Turn off the session restore function
  Personally I do not like this feature very much, I cannot remember having used it willingly (sometimes I clicked the wrong button). So here’s how to turn it off:

  Parameter: browser.sessionstore.enabled
  Default value: true
  Possible modifikations: false [by setting the value to "false", the restore dialog won't appear anymore]

• Countdown timer before installing an Addon
  You’ve just found the Addon you were hoping for aeons of time, downloaded it, but then there are always these horrible two seconds of waiting till the installation begins…
  Get rid of them!

  Parameter: security.dialog_enable_delay
  Default value: 2000 [in milli seconds, which makes in this case 2 seconds]
  Possible modifikations: 0 [by setting the value to "0", the installation starts immediately, all other values, specify a delay in milli seconds]

• Turn off the Anitivrus Scan
  Only in Firefox 3: Downloaded files will have to pass an antivirus scan, which might take a while, if you are leeching a larger file.

  Parameter: browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone
  Default value: true
  Possible modifikations: false
  [by setting the value to "false", the scan is disabled, so watch out what you're downloading from which site]

One of the problably most discussed features is “InPrivate”, sarcastically baptised the “porn mode” due to is most striking operation field. But this function is simply an automatism for a standart procedure, which are already offered by several other competitors on the browser market, i.e. “Clear private data” function in Firefox.
By concealing the browsing behavior and thus avoiding the data mining by webpages, this function cuts off targeted advertising, which will not be appreciated by the marketing companies.

So this measure will be welcomed by the data privacy protectors, but certainly not by the greatest online advertiser, namely Google, who has by the lately swallowed DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, who are specialised in targeted marketing.

Hopefully the MS software engineers had been sticking a little bit closer to the standarts defined by the W3 consortium.

On the download page itself M$ only gives common talk:

Internet Explorer 8 is the latest version of the familiar web browser you are most comfortable using, helping you get everything you want from the web faster, easier, more privately and securely than ever before.

• Faster Internet Explorer 8 is more responsive with new pages and tabs, opening up fast and reliably. You can now get to the information you care about most, in fewer steps; one click access to your webmail, favorite news sites or other online services.
• Easier Reduce the steps to accomplish many common tasks, and automate your access to real time information updates. You can keep track of your favorite sports team, news, weather with a single click.
• More Private Helps protect your privacy and confidential information where ever you go on the web.
• More Secure Helps protect and stop malicious software from reaching your PC, and makes it easier to detect when a website is an imposter.

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