Would you like to be able to update your Drupal site and automatically send those updates to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites? This tutorial will show you how. Our first part will be to create…
Video Showing How To Edit a Joomla Template
We teach three kinds of website software: Drupal, Joomla and WordPress. At each class people bring different preconceived notions: Drupal: “This stuff is really hard, right?” Joomla: “This stuff is a quirky, right?” WordPress: “This stuff isn’t very powerful, right?”…
Unlike Joomla or Drupal, WordPress doesn’t have a default contact form. However, there are many good options to choose from. We’re going to recommend a plugin called “Contact Form 7”.
One is warm, sunny and on the beautiful Pacific Ocean. The other is cold, rainy and on the grey Thames (I’m allowed to make fun of it … I was born in its suburbs) San Francisco and London and nearly…
This week’s tutorial explains how to add metadata to your Drupal site. By default, Drupal has no fields for metadata. Check the source code at and you’ll see what I mean. To fix that issue, we recommend a module…
Following on from other newsletters where we showed you how to set up Joomla on a Mac and also how to develop locally and moving your site to a live server, this week we’re going to walk you through installing…
Would you like to be able to update your Joomla site and automatically send that update to Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, MySpace, Ning and dozens of other sites? This tutorial will show you how. Our first part will be to create…
This tutorial was requested by a student who is learning the Drupal basics. They turned on “Clean URLs” in the Drupal admin area and were surprised to see that the URLs remained largely unchanged: Old: /?q=node/3 New: /node/3 The student’s…
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and import it into your Joomla site. Each item on the RSS feed will become a separate Joomla article. We use this technique for a couple purposes: Distributing our…