Drupal

In the first post of this series, I discussed the initial steps towards setting up your own church website using Drupal.  Specifically, I showed how to get your own domain name and webhosting set up.  By following those steps, you would have your own domain name and server space, but you would not have any actual site to display your church's information.  This is where the Drupal content manageme

Step 1: Getting a Domain Name

Simply put, the Internet is a massive network of connected computers, each of which has its own IP address.  For example, 216.239.51.99 is an IP address of a computer that runs Google's website.  The seemingly random numbers that make up

Why Drupal?

A good church website should contain many types of content.  For example, events, sermons, videos, photos, and normal "static" information pages can provide a nearly comprehensive view of a church's philosphopy and personality.  Additionally, various groups of people, such as pastors

We have re-designed the Elston Family Church website.  The navigation has been greatly simplified and cleaned up.  Additionally, the front page has been used as a highlight of the church's various ministries, guiding site visitors to their pages of interest.

Drupal is my CMS of choice.  I really enjoy its power and flexibility.  The more I learn about it, the more I like it.  Awhile back there was talk in the Drupal community about a lack of nice wallpapers.  I thought that it would be cool to have a 3-d version of the Druplicon as a wallpaper.  So, I decided to use the great open source Blender software to create a model of the Drup

I have built numerous websites using the Drupal content management system.  I have a fairly firm grasp of how the code behind Drupal works, especially after reading the Pro Drupal Development book.  However, I really want to understand the nitty gritty details of how Drupal works.  Therefore, I have decided to begin an in depth review of how the code behind Drupal works.  I will start at the very basic "index.php" file and work my way through the code.  I have no idea how far I will get or how in-depth

As I noted before, I have begun development on my first Drupal 6 site.  I must say that so far, really enjoy the new system.  Here are a few things I have noticed:

• User access page improvement: One thing that has annoyed me about every Drupal 5 site that I have built is the user permissions administration page.  The page is a very long list of checkboxes which gives granular control of what different users can and can not do on your site.  The annoyance was that the user role names were at the top of the page.&nb

In the near future we will unveil our latest site, for First Southern Baptist Church in Terre Haute, IN.  This site is near completion and is built on Drupal 5.  We will also soon commence our first site using Drupal 6 in the very near future.  We have been somewhat hesitant to build sites with Drupal 6 due to nonavailability of modules like Views and CCK, but the latest versions of these modules are very near completion.  We look forward to learning all

A few years ago, when I was very new to the web development scene, I created a static site for Elston Family Church.  Approximately one year ago I re-launched the site using Drupal 5, complete with many of the well-known modules and a custom theme.  The site has worked quite well for the church thus far.  However, they have an upcoming carnival for which they needed some custom module development.

They need several features:

• Ev