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Many Open Source content management systems written in PHP want to be recognized by the business industry as being "enterprise" ready. This is not only a mark of prestige and status but places them in a position where large companies are ready to invest in the software as a platform for their projects. Drupal is now trying making its move to be enterprise ready but has a long way to go.

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Blocks are an important part of handling content on a website. There are times though that you want to control access and placement of blocks by their content. This video shows how to do that and how to create custom blocks for your website.

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Taxonomy is the most missunderstood system in the Drupal CMS. It is also the most powerful part. This tutorial covers how to set it up to control and enhance your website.

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When you are using a content management system to build a magazine or to handle the online version of printed media then you are going to need workflow. Workflow is the tracking of documents through the publishing process. Editors, authors, proof readers and consults can collaborate on an article and follow its handling using a set workflow.

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A very comprehensive video covering all the basics of configuring a Drupal website. If you have installed Drupal via a one-click installer and are wondering what to do next then check out this video. Done with Drupal 5 but still applicable to Drupal 6.

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Ever wonder how those websites get loads of free content automatically? Well this video shows you how to do it using the Drupal content management system and a free module called "leech". Leech is a great piece of programming but getting it configured takes some doing. The instructions in this video are step-by-step and on the last step you should have a website that will create hundreds of pages daily, automatically.

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One of the most important parts of being able to create a useful website is to be able to type the content. You want to be able to have content that is created for a specific purpose or section. Shoppingcart items, jobs, blog entries and more can be mocked up within the Drupal system. Drupal is not alone in having this feature but it is one of the easiest CMS (typo3 and ezpublish are incredibly difficult) to do this in once you get the hang of it.

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Creating menus using the built in Drupal menu system is covered here. Show are the basics on how to connect the dynamic links to URLs.

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This may seem like an advanced tutorial but it does in fact cut down on the steep learning curve of Drupal. It also gives those new to Drupal a good hint as to what they are getting into by choosing this CMS for a project.

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Sometime ago someone asked for the Drupal API documention in CHM format. So here it is. It will be updated fairly often as I work out the bugs in using doxygen in a Windo

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