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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.

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.

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

What is the most important thing to keep in mind when developing a website? Is it speed, design or perhaps search engine optimization? No, the usability of a website should always be the primary concern. If people can't figure out how to use your website, they will get frustrated and leave. Are you missing out on any leads or sales? Are people having a hard time finding the information they need? How can you find out if your website is sufficiently user friendly?

Any international programmer will one day be confronted with the problem of handling languages other than English. These contain many diacritics and other letters or symbols which do not exist in the English language. When it goes wrong, things can get very ugly, with strange characters (examples: ¶, é, â, ÃŒ, ü, �, ë, ®, â��, ï) appearing in your database. How do you avoid data corruption and other problems related to character encoding? We won't be explaining everything in-depth, but provide some quick and easy pointers which allow you to get started right away.

Clearing your cache with the Devel module on Drupal 6.x is very easy:

1. Install Devel module: http://drupal.org/project/devel
2. Enable Devel permissions at admin/user/access
3. Make sure Devel block is activated & visible at admin/build/block if you expect to clear the cache by clicking a link.
4. Click on 'Empty cache' link located inside the Devel block. Or use the following direct link: http://www.example.com/devel/cache/clear

If you want to change the default appearance of the toolbar buttons for the TinyMCE module, follow these simple steps: