Drupal 6.x : How to hide blocks?

1. Go to Home> Administer > Site buildings > Blocks
   
   
2. Choose block you want to configure > Click configure
   
   
3. Go to Custom visibility settings:
   Users cannot control whether or not they see this block.

   Show this block by default, but let individual users hide it.

   Hide this block by default but let individual users show it.
   
   
4. Save blocks.
   
   
5. Refresh browser and see the changes . Done
   

Drupal 6.x: How to edit your home link?

1. Go to Home> Administer > Site building > Menu > Primary Link
   
   
2. See home menu item > Click edit
   
   
3. Default path normally (for Drupal 6.x)
   
   
4. Change to new link path or url as you want
   ==> http://mydomain.com.my/main.html
   
   
5. Save setting.
   
   
6. Refresh your browser and see the changes done.
   

Drupal 6.x: How to edit frontpage view ?

1. Create Content > Choose Page > Format/Type your content
   
   
2. Set URL path to any specific name (eg: 'main')
   
   
3. Set publishing option to - thick all option to make sure the page will sticky to be the first content in the list.
   
   
4. Preview & Save content.
   
   
5. Go to Home> Administer> Site Configuration > Site Information
   
   
6. Set your default frontpage to> main
   
   
7. Save configuration.
   
   
8. Open your default drupal url and see your new fronpage appear.
   

Drupal VS Joomla...

They says:

Drupal

• Rock solid & high quality platform
• Real multi-site-feature (only one installation for several sites)
• Any Kind of user groups & user permissions, OpenId compliant in Version 6
• Can run membership and community sites, not only CMS etc
• Powerful templating system. Any XHTML or CSS template can be easily converted to Drupal.
• Drupal needs a little time investment to realize all the huge possibilities of Drupal
• Clear, high quality code and API (easy to integrate with other solutions etc)
• Flexibility and no known limitations
• Many high profile sites use Drupal (e.g.: MTV UK, BBC, the Onion, Nasa, Greenpeace UK, New york observer. )

and..

Joomla

• If you are not techy its good to start
• Easy install & setup with your mouse
• Easy learning curve
• Cannot integrate other scripts etc. to your site
• Generally you cannot create high-end sites, without investing huge amount
• No SEO out of the box, URLs are not search engine friendly... this fixed already
• Server resources utilization is more compared to drupal
• Only one site per installation
• No Single Log-in to several sites
• No User groups & permissions
• More intuitive administration user interface
• Some polished modules for things like calendars, polls, etc.

Read more..

• Drupal VS Joomla
• Comparing Joomla & Drupal
• Joomla Forum

Drupal

What Is Drupal?

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

• Community web portals
• Discussion sites
• Corporate web sites
• Intranet applications
• Personal web sites or blogs
• Aficionado sites
• E-commerce applications
• Resource directories
• Social Networking sites

Drupal is ready to go from the moment you download it. It even has an easy-to-use web installer! The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:

• Content Management Systems
• Blogs
• Collaborative authoring environments
• Forums
• Peer-to-peer networking
• Newsletters
• Podcasting
• Picture galleries
• File uploads and downloads

and much more.

Wordpress VS Joomla

The basic difference between WordPress and Joomla is that Joomla is a portal- or community type site while WordPress is a blog.

I found a great article written on the Joomla! site (though it is not biased at all) that points out how Joomla!, Wordpress and Drupal are the top three CMS / Blogging systems out there. Choose any of them and you’re a winner…well, depending on what you want your website to do.

Wordpress is a blog. That’s it. That’s all that it ever will be succesfully. The code is written sloppily and with every upgrade the system breaks a plugin that has been installed, or a theme that has been custom designed. It’s also extremely dificult to make it do what you want, as I’ve spent many hours trying to do just that.

Joomla! is a Content Management system (not a portal, though it could be used as one…) This means that it is used to aggregate a lot of content and put it into a nice form on your website. This includes blogs, magazines, newsletters, articles, knowledge bases, tutorials, forums, and much more. Joomla gives you a lot of power in your hands and that is noticeable in the admin section where there are so many options that you get dizzy the first time you go in.

Granted, it’s a wonderful blog if that’s all that you are doing and all you want to do. But if you want flexibility…go with Joomla! or even Drupal...

For instance, adding or removing post dates in wordpress, need to be changed in design mode and it requires knowledge of WP scripting. The navigational structure is determined by the layout template you chose. Changing that structure again requires knowledge of the WP scripting language and CSS. With Joomla, you do not run into this problem because menus are controlled via the control panel and attributes like dates, author name etc, can be turned on and off per article or for the whole site in one go. In that sense, Joomla is much more a content management system.

Hmmmh... does the choice right?... Then make your own choice.. & good luck.

Wordpress..

Because of the new coming "b", I need to move from Joomla to Wordpress. I'm a person who didn't like to fight or against my "b". So I just go with the flow... I didn't like to make any noisy things.. so just learn about this new things.


What is Wordpress??

WordPress is an open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2\cafelog which was developed by Michel Valdrighi. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.7.1, released on 10 February 2009.

It was written in PHP for use with MySQL.(also same like Joomla).. but simpler one than joomla.
WordPress supports one weblog per installation, though multiple concurrent copies may be run from different directories if configured to use separate database tables. Is it suitable to use for company/ university website using blog?? Anyway thats the "b" decision... just see what happen next.

WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. Same also like Joomla. Whats so special??... maybe the "framework developer".. I guest.