Web development

Quite often we all find we need some way of creating a community or communicating with clients in a user friendly way. For this, some of us, will choose forum/bulletin board systems. In this article we will discuss some of the major forum content management systems alongside their pro’s and con’s.

We stumbled across an interesting solution today for people who need to preload content on a webpage. You wouldn't want to do this with just any page of course, because you don't want people to wait for all images to be loaded before showing them other content without a good reason. However, if you have a web application which isn't useable until all elements are loaded, QueryLoader might be what you've been looking for. Some of its features include;

Many major websites these days use country flags to indicate which other languages the content is available in. For example, the English language is usually represented by the Union Flag or the Dutch language by a flag of the Netherlands. The problem with this approach is that location and language are not really that related. Many countries have multiple languages, such as Belgium which has 3 national languages (Dutch, French and German) or India which has no less than 22.

Wibiya toolbar adds functional and social features to any website;

• Search the website or the entire web from the toolbar
• Translate automatically to almost any language
• Overview of recent posts published in the RSS feed
• Easily navigate posts or visit a randomly selected article
• Share on Facebook or Twitter
• View Flickr photo streams
• Shoutbox integration

Because many Drupal site owners would appreciate this functionality, we've created the Wibiya toolbar for Drupal.

Sometimes it's good to put things into perspective. The popularity of Drupal is a good example. Even though there are thousands of contributed modules and it's getting hard to keep track of the new modules being added, Drupal as a whole is not as popular as other content management systems such as Joomla and Wordpress:

There's a new module for Drupal which looks very promising:

This project allows users to build entire Form API structures through a graphical, AJAX-like interface. It has the ability to read and export FAPI arrays, and users are permitted to change any properties exposed by modules that expose forms to the Form Builder.

This project is not yet ready for use in a production environment.

Do not use this project on any production system whatsoever or attempt to implement its APIs, as they are guaranteed to change.

Although we've become huge fans of Disqus, which is basically a full commenting system which can be implemented with just a little bit of JavaScript, we realize the Drupal core commenting system is better suited for other people, especially those who rely on comments for SEO purposes or want to retain full control of their data.

Google has launched the Google Translator Kit, which automatically converts and translates any uploaded documents. This is different from the existing Google Translate tool because full documents (including images) are translated, not just plain text, and both the original text and the resulting translation remain linked and can be viewed side-to-side. This allows teams of people to collaboratively translate any document in real-time.

There are several solutions available in Drupal 6 to upload, manipulate and manage images;