Knowledge - Tutorials and Screencasts

Upgrade Your Site From Drupal5 to Drupal6

This videocast is a 12 minute review of upgrading your site from Drupal5.x to Drupal6.x


Upgrading to Drupal 6 from Drupal 5

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Script and recording by Greg Knaddison (greggles).


What's New In Drupal 6

This screencast gives an review of the major enhancements in Drupal 6.


Drupal 6 new features

Script and recording by Greg Knaddison.

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Hackable URLs in Drupal using Pathauto and Views

Hackable URLs (also known as index aliases) are a great feature of many sites. You can achieve these in Drupal using a combination of Pathauto and Views.

Note that the Breadcrumbs are somewhat incorrect in the video. This was due to an oversight in creating the view. If the view included a "Page Title" or used the "Page Title" field for the Arguments.

Video licensed cc-by-sa by Greg Knaddison


New features in Drupal 6 - i18n and l10n special show

Three more videos I made cover some of the exciting enhancements in Drupal 6:

  • New features in Drupal6 21 minute movie showing many of the wonderful new features available in Drupal6 and how to use them. Highlights include OpenID, a quick review of i18n/l10n, some of the performance enhancements, the installer, actions and triggers, and the menu system among other features.
  • i18n and l10n in Drupal6 which really digs into the topic of internationalization using Drupal6. This is one of the major features in Drupal6 and should really help Drupal be the default choice for people who need multilingual sites.

The i18n/l10n video is available in two parts. All three videos are available from MasteringDrupal.com


HOWTO: Search Engine Optimize your Drupal Site

There are several SEO screencast series for Drupal - I created one for Mastering Drupal called Drupal SEO Video Course. You simply sign up for the emails and one after another they will arrive every 3 days letting you in on the secrets of SEO with Drupal.

Topics Covered in the Drupal SEO Video Course

  1. Basic SEO Principles and how Drupal Core helps you with those
  2. Configuring Pathauto, Path Redirect, and Global Redirect to get your keywords into the URL without duplicate content
  3. Social linking modules to help encourage people to bookmark your site
  4. How to configure Robots.txt to help tell the robots what to find (and what not to find).

And many more topics...so go sign up to get the e-mails started.


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