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Beautiful Drupal - growing the designer community and its impact

Posted on Thu, Jun 11, 2009
by Jay Batson

I'm happy to have seen the good response to my "What shall we do about themes?" post. I'm particularly glad to see a bunch of self-described designers participating, and to see the thoughtfulness of the comments.

From the 50+ comments, a few consistent messages emerged (no editorial pen here; just consolidating / summarizing):

    Updating modules and themes in Drupal 7

    Posted on Wed, Jun 10, 2009
    by Jacob Singh

    The problem: Updates in Drupal require FTP / SSH and a bit of know how

    When the average Drupal site owner without ssh, cvs and other geek gadgets wants to update modules on or themes on their Drupal site, they currently have to do the following:

    Living in a free world panel at Gilbane content solutions conference

    Posted on Mon, Jun 08, 2009
    by Kieran Lal

    Last Thursday I was fortunate enough to participate in the living in the free world panel at the Gilbane Content Solution conference. The panel was hosted by Joseph Bachana, the president of DPCI, and Acquia platinum partner. The panel included Jeremiah Owyang, the web content management analyst for Forester Research.

    Screencasts - Install and Update Acquia Drupal from SVN

    Posted on Mon, Jun 08, 2009
    by Jeffrey McGuire

    Watch these videos to see how to install Acquia Drupal from the Subversion repository and then how simple it is to do clean and fast updates to your SVN-enabled Drupal website.

    More information on installation and use of the Acquia Drupal SVN repository can be found in Acquia's SVN documentation.

    Acquia Documentation Survey - Results - The Way Forward

    Posted on Sun, Jun 07, 2009
    by Jeffrey McGuire
    Acquia Documentation Survey - Results - The Way Forward Many thanks to all who provided feedback in the recent survey about Acquia’s documentation. Here are the results of the survey’s multiple choice questions and some of the conclusions we have drawn from them.

    Drupal at San Fransico State University, presentation to students and staff

    Posted on Thu, Jun 04, 2009
    by Kieran Lal

    Last year I met Sameer Verma, a professor of Information Systems at San Francisco State University. I was immediately intrigued by his class which involves giving business students the job of building an online business using Drupal. The students are required to vet and justify each contributed module and how it helps users and the business.

    A few weeks ago I was asked to present to students, staff, and faculty about the Drupal project.

    What shall we do about Themes?

    Posted on Tue, May 19, 2009
    by Jay Batson
    Update - 22 Feb 2010: One of the issues lightly touched on below is the market need for some themes besides those on drupal.org. Acquia has started to collect both themes, as well as links to theme providers, at a new site devoted to the design-aspects of Drupal. See design.acquia.com for more information. (Original post follows.) For almost as long as I've been involved with Drupal, there's been a running complaint – either a (false) perception or (true) reality – that Drupal is "theme-challenged" compared to alternatives like Joomla and WordPress. I had this complaint myself when I first started using Drupal. Our investors heard it during their due-diligence on Drupal. And I continue to hear it from people I meet who are building their first Drupal site. I've got some cycles now to pay some concentrated attention to this, and see if there's something we can do about it (where "we" means both Acquia and the Drupal community at large.) I encourage you to add your comments / thoughts to this blog post. In fact, my primary purpose in this post is to listen to people. So read on, and give me your thoughts. What's the problem - really? The first thing to do is to characterize the complaints. I think there are (at least) two high-level areas of interest:

    Screencast - Acquia Drupal Stack Installer - Now with multisite support.

    Posted on Mon, May 18, 2009
    by Jeffrey McGuire

    Click on the video below to see how simple it is to install multiple, local Acquia Drupal websites, Apache 2, PHP5, and MySQL with the Acquia Drupal stack installer.

    Deutsche Version: Multisite Acquia Drupal Stack Installer screencast

    Versione in Italiano: Multisite Acquia Drupal Stack Installer screencast

    Multiple Drupal sites & virtual hosts on Acquia Drupal Stack Installer (DAMP)

    Posted on Fri, May 15, 2009
    by Chris Brookins

    A little over a month ago we posted a survey asking what you wanted to see next in the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer (a.k.a. DAMP). According the survey results, the most requested feature was support for multiple virtual hosts so you could easily set up multiple Drupal web sites using any local URL. For example: http://mysite.localhost or http://myclient.theirdomain.com, etc.

    I am happy to announce we recently released a new version of the Acquia Drupal Stack Installer that supports multiple virtual hosts.

    The S-Files: Cron run exceeded the time limit and was aborted.

    Posted on Wed, May 13, 2009
    by Robert Douglass

    Tech Support Case Studies

    Our support team is prepared to deal with any Drupal related problem or question that might arise. Some problems show up more often than others, though, and in those cases it is good to have the solutions at your fingertips.

    This recently got added to our growing library of Drupal knowledge, and deals with the problem of running cron efficiently. In the effort to tune PHP to perform well while serving normal web pages, it is possible to set some values in php.ini so low that they are insufficient for running cron.

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