Two modules that any Drupal website designer will need to know to build a solid Drupal site. One is CCK (Content Construction Kit) and the other is View module. These two modules are complementary. CCK allows one to build new content type, while View allow one to display the content type in a specific manner.

Below is a video on how to use View module. The demo in the video was not quite systematic. For those who have used View module before, it is a good refreshment to learn a few more new tricks.

Below is a video on how you can display rss feeds to your Drupal website through the Drupal’s core feed aggregator. The problem with the Drupal’s core feed aggregator is that I can’t find an easy way to style those feeds the way I would like to show them on my content region.

Wordpress is generally used for blogging. However, Wordpress is also ideal for setting up a static CMS website. The advantage of using Wordpress as a platform for static website is that we can take advantage of the numerous plugins in Wordpress such as form, sitemap, etc.

To create a Wordpress-based static website,

1. create a page without title. This page will be used for the frontpage.

2. Goto the settings -> Reading -> Front Page display

3. Select the page as the static page for Front Page

The reason of not specifying the title, so that the title will not appear on the front page.

When you install Drupal, you will be recommended to increase your memory limit to 16M and turn off the global register.

To do that, copy the following lines on the php.ini and upload to your Drupal root directory

register_globals = off
memory_limit = 16M

That’s it.