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Drupal is a Finalist in multiple categories in 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards.

By MacRonin on

They have selected the Finalists over at the 2008 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, and Drupal has made it to Finalist status in multiple categories.

Zemanta plugin for Drupal

By JureCuhalev on

Hi Drupal community,

just wanted to make a short announcement that Zemanta now support also Drupal 5.x and 6.x. Zemanta is a blogging add-on that understands what you are blogging/creating content about and suggests pictures, links, articles and tags. This saves you time, brings more traffic and makes your posts even more beautiful.

It's available both through the module and as a Firefox and Internet Explore Browser Add-on/Extension.

Typo3, Joomla!, and Drupal CMSs performance testing

By vkiryanov on

Hello community..

My colleague made a new performance test for popular CMSs: Drupal, Typo3, and Joomla!.
This time optimized environment used to show typical production system.

Please, use following link for results:
http://blogs.helion-prime.com

have a nice day..

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

New Drupal DVD/Video - Understanding Drupal

By KentBye on

Understanding Drupal is the first video in The Lullabot Learning Series. This video provides an overview of Drupal as a content management system, as a PHP web application framework, and as a developer community. Its documentary-style exploration covers all the terminology and fundamental concepts for both site administrators and developers. If you've ever been confused by Drupal or are still trying to wrap your head around the community and platform, this video is intended as a roadmap to accelerate your journey up the Drupal learning curve.

Lullabots Addison Berry (add1sun), Angela Byron (webchick), Jeff Eaton (eaton), Nathan Haug (quicksketch), Jeff Robbins (jjeff), James Walker (walkah), and Matt Westgate (matt westgate) sit down to tell us about Drupal in this video directed and edited by Kent Bye (kentbye). A portion of the profits from this video will be donated directly to the Drupal Association.

Topics include...

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x

One Click Installable Drupal.org Site Search Extension for Firefox

By anoopjohn on

We have developed a Site Specific search extension for Firefox that will enable you to search directly on drupal.org using Google Site Search. The extension is available at

Drupal.org Site Search Firefox Extension

You can easily install the extension by clicking on the link provided in the post. You can view the source of the extension after you install the extension by going to your firefox profile folder/searchplugins.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.5.x or older, Drupal 4.6.x, Drupal 4.7.x, Drupal 5.x, Drupal 6.x

Drupal usability tests from the University of Baltimore with community solutions

By Amazon on

The Interaction Design and Information Architecture program at the University of Baltimore and a team of eight graduate students in the Research Methods class, taught by professor Kathryn Summers, have completed a usability study on Drupal. The Drupal community has been working with Becca Scollan in the usability group.

The usability research used video recordings and eye tracking tools to follow participants gaze in the Drupal interface. The study used eight participants, which is considered a valid sample. The study duplicated some tests done in usability testing at the University of Minnesota, and confirmed several results.

Fixing the usability problems

Core issues from both studies

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