October 3rd, 2008Search Engine Friendly Blog with Drupal
If you have downloaded and installed Drupal, you can follow these steps to set up a blog on your website using Drupal. Drupal is pretty easy to install, it even has an easy-to-use web installer! Drupal has great CMS functionality and if combined with plenty of freely available add-on modules you can create an advanced website. However, in this post we are covering how you can use it for setting up a blog on your website. We recommend Durpal if you have a long term plan for your website but want to begin with plain blogging, this is the most scalable option you could choose.
Steps to Customizing Drupal for Blog with SE friendly URLs
You will need Pathauto module to auto create cleaner URLs for your blog posts. The Token module is required by the Pathauto module, so you’ll need to get it too. Once you have downloaded the modules go to your drupal folder and in the subfolder names sites, you will further see 2 sub sub folders called All and Default. Inside the All folder, create a new folder and name it Modules, you can unpack the Token and Pathauto into this folder using your archiver. Now Upload the contents of the entire “sites” folder to your website. After you have uploaded the files, you will now need to log into your Drupal account as administrator and then go to the Administer, Find Modules in the Site building section. Read the rest of this entry »






