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Any reasonably complex Drupal website involves using Views for listing items and CCK for the creation of custom content types. Since each website has a unique look, a large part of creating a Drupal website is theming Views and nodes.

Drupal theming has changed with Drupal 6 and so has the Views theming. Here is a quick introduction to the new theming approach in Drupal 6 and Views 2.

Content-Construction Kit (CCK) is a standard way, in Drupal, to add properties to the core content item - a Node. There are many CCK Modules that provide a large variety of field types, from e-mail fields to image or video ones. Even so, sometimes standard toolset is just not enough and we need to write our own implementation. This short run-through of a tutorial will get you started. For more detailed documentation, you can refer to the offical CCK tutorial.

In the last several weeks, Phase2 has blogged about our development and release of an integration module for Drupal CMS with the Calais Web Service. Why did we spend time and money on it? Here’s some background.

A quick look at some high-level Drupal functions for performing extreme transformations on a form.

Phase2 technology has developed and released an integration module between Drupal CMS and the Calais Web-Service. The Calais web service allows you to automatically annotate your content with rich semantic metadata. The Calais module, developed by Phase2 brings the power of Calais into Drupal.

Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is an op-code pre-compiler and a cache system that can boost the performance of a PHP application up to 10 times. Op-code caches are very effective for a Drupal website, since Drupal deals with large number of source files and time spent in parsing them significantly affects performance.

The following blog post explains how to install APC in a XAMPP environment.

Do you know how many extensions (modules) there are for Drupal?

Things around Drupal and it’s community are moving quickly. First it was the release of the major new version of Drupal, version 6.0, announced on the the 13th. And last week, DC Drupallers met at the Affinity Lab

In the Information Age, any competitive advantages that a company may possess can quickly disappear. Any unique assets can become commodity overnight. The only true differentiator companies can rely on is the skill-set and talent of its workforce. We share with you some thoughts about how to acquire and retain the best people, in the tough market.

Need some good modules for starting a Drupal blogging site? Look no further…