Building a Content Strategy for Drupal Websites

Content strategy is a relatively new concept in web development circles that attempts to solve a very old problem: although content is the meat and potatoes of the web, it is often not given due consideration. As a result, the web is full of garbage that no one wants to read and can't find anyway.

Targeting Communities Through Site Segregation

Websites that service a number of target communities are faced with the challenge of providing contributors with simple and consolidated ways to add content, while providing intelligent ways for target communities to access content they want (or are allowed) to see.  Drupal provides many different ways to contribute, control and display content, so how do you choose the best way?

Making Drupal Mobile

Making a Drupal website mobile-ready is a big challenge for site designers/developers.  On the one hand, you are expected to develop a site that uses the latest tools (AJAX, jQuery, etc.).  Then, just when you think you've got the requirements nailed, you see the last line that says, "must accommodate mobile browsers."  This, in effect, amounts to having to create two versions of your website: one for current browers and one for browsers circa 1998 with tiny displays.

Installing Acquia Drupal on RedHat Enterprise Linux

The following is a two part script to configure RedHat Enterprise Linux for drupal installation, and then creating a site using acquia distribution. The script is not fully automated and will require some user interaction. Please note that the site should be registered in DNS to be accessible.