Easy steps for upgrading Dupal

Step1: Take a backup of your project both source and database.
Step2: Log on as administrator or super user(the user with user ID 1).
Step3: Put the site in “Off-line” mode.
Step4: Ensure to disable all custom, contributed modules and themes.
Step5: Switch to a core theme(Garland is recommended).
Step6: Remove all of the old files and directories from the Project installation directory.
Step7: Download and unpack the new Drupal files and directories into the Project installation directory.
Step8: Copy the archived “files” and “sites” directories to the Project installation directory.
Step9: Change the config file and make sure it has the latest and correct information.
Step10: Re-enable contributed modules.
Step11: Run update.php by visiting http://www.yoursite.com/update.php
(In this step all the database tables will be created for the new Project installation.
Step12: Change the site to “On-line” mode so your visitors can browse it.
Step13: Sit back and Enjoy!

for more details please visit http://drupal.org/upgrade

Contribution to the world of Virtualization

There is a wide range of products in the market for implementing virtualization .The contribution of Microsoft to the world of Virtualization is VirtualPC.It shows a high-end competition with VMWARE. Using virtualization to run multiple operating systems on a single physical computer was once mainly the domain of ubergeeks and IT administrators, but these days there’s much more widespread interest in the technology, whether as a means to test a planned software deployment, kick the tires on a new OS, or just to continue using an application designed for a now obsolete operating system.

Virtualization’s increase in popularity is in part due to Microsoft’s decision several years ago to offer its Virtual PC 2004 software for free. Some users soon found that there was a catch, however, because VPC 2004 didn’t work particularly well with Windows Vista, whether as the guest (virtualized) operating system or as the host OS running natively on the system.

With the new Virtual PC 2007, Vista-related issues are no more (at least technical ones - more on that in a moment). While VPC 2007 doesn’t address all of VPC 2004’s limitations - nor for that matter does it offer the same level of features as virtualization products like Parallels Workstation or VMware Workstation - it does handle the basics well. And like its predecessor, VPC 2007 is available free of charge, which for many will be reason enough to try it.

OsCommerce and its benefits

osCommerce is the most comprehensive and popular open source Shopping Cart system in existence.

It has a very large list of features and the most versatile shopping cart solution and offers customization choices for the on-line storefront owners depending on their need at a very affordable price. If you are looking for an e-shop, you should consider osCommerce.

It is an Open Source solution released under the GNU General Public License.It is a complete online store which contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend.

Requirements:

osCommerce requires any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

Features:

osCommerce is a good, full-featured cart that uses php and MySQL.

It supports credit-card processors and shipping services.

A large number of add-on modules are available and many more in development.

It supports Customer login and shopping history, order status, shipping information, multiple shipping addresses, product rating and reviews, best sellers, payment processing and tax calculation.

Extensible Content Fields Native to Drupal

With Drupal 7, the core now includes content type extensibility. Now the admin can define and enable content types and custom fields. I think this adds great flexibility to the the framework. Please find the following link to read more..

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/drupal-7-cms-to-add-content-type-extensibility-for-dummies-004878.php

iGallery for DRUPAL 6

iGallery for drupal6 has been released.We can create both video as well as image gallery with this new module.Along with that they provide options for categorizing each gallery.Steps for integrating igallery module are:

1.Download iGallery module and copy it into your modules folder.Enable the module.

2.Goto iGallery settings to administer iGallery module.

3.We can create a new iGallery content type through create content.This content type created will act as a new gallery.

4. Select the gallery type.Radio button will help us to do this.If we select image it will work as image gallery.If we select video as type it will work as video gallery.We can upload different content types to video gallery like wmv,mov ,mpeg and some others.

5.For showing image galleries, plugins like greybox and lightbox are also available.

For more details visit http://drupal.org/project/gallery .

Image Transparency in CSS

Image Transparency

Here is one example showing image Transparency in css

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Style.css file

#global { margin:auto; }

.image {position:relative; width:800px; height:555px; margin-left:10px; float:left;margin-left:20px; background:#000;}

.text {position:absolute; top:0; right:0; padding: 0px; width:800px; height:555px; background:#fff; margin-top:386px;}

.text {filter: alpha(opacity=50); filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity: 0.50; opacity:0.5; }

.words {position:absolute; top:0; right:0; padding: 0px; width:800px; height:555px; background:#fff; margin-top:386px; background:transparent; }

.words p {font-family:”Arial”; font-size:10px; margin:0px; padding:0px; color:#7b7a61; padding-left:10px; padding-top:5px;}

.words a { color:#4da3c6;}