Drupal is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) written in PHP. In addition to adding and editing content, it can power forums, shopping carts, blogs, and act as a platform for custom applications.
Modal forms are very popular nowadays. While they can be confusing at times they aren't difficult to set up if you have the right tools.
There are several modules available for Drupal 7 that would serve our purpose. I've found Simple Dialog to be the easiest to use and will demonstrate that here.
One of the most time consuming and critical tasks in Drupal development is styling the output. Drupal modules generally come with a default style sheet which can be both a blessing and a curse.
In most cases you'll just override the default style by providing more specific definitions in your site's CSS. This works fine if you only want to make minor changes but what if you wanted a totally different look?
Want to have a "block" element move up and down the page when the page scrolls? Easy. I'll show you how to get this up and running with jQuery Scroll Follow and Drupal 7.
Virtually all websites and web applications start with a requirements document, but rarely are these first attempts very helpful to designers or developers. To be successful you must express your needs and desires to the people who will be working on your project in their language.
Keep in touch with your customers with newsletters sent right from your website. Integrating your email marketing with your Drupal website provides your customers easy access to subscribe, unsubscribe, and manage their user accounts all in one familiar place.
Social media has become an important marketing tool and a great way to keep in contact with your customers and partners. Drupal has a number of powerful contributed modules which allow us to easily integrate these features. There are generally three ways in which we harness the power of social media:
Drupal 7 has a wealth of contributed modules dedicated to managing and organizing media of virtually any format.
The Media module makes it easy to upload images, videos, and audio files to your site. Once uploaded they can be automatically processed to conform to a preset standard such as size or file format. This means the user no longer needs additional software or experience with image editing.
Content Management Systems (CMS) are designed to facilitate the creation, editing, and maintenance of a website. While the feature set varies by application, they all have the same basic design goals.