working on applications and technology

Recently I 'm consider building a travel website using drupal. unlike this website, travel site is supposed to be media-rich , It should have a lot of photos and pictures, video content is also under consideration in the future.

For this website I used to insert flickr image into the article body using the flickr tag [flic**], this kind of image handling might be good for ordinary content website but surely not good enough for a travel website, where we have to be able to assemble photo gallery easily and associate the photo with its original post without much effort.Read more

After successful configuration of the SMTP Authentication Support module according to the previous article here, It seems everythings is OK for a while until I register email account on Gmail and then I find out that It seems my drupal could not send email to any Gmail account!

It looks like my previous configuration does not solve everything, I have to think it through and find out why.Read more

Some hosting company has more strict access control for web hosting. one of the restriction is to prevent the 'nobody' user from sending email with no authentication. For drupal hosting at such company, the default email function of drupal will not work after the installation for such web hosting , We have to install the SMTP module to support drupal email functionality.

Steps to install and configure the SMTP Authentication Support moduleRead more

What is drupal fckeditor?

Drupal come with modules that could easily intergrate with some powerful online HTML editor , one of them is the popular FCKeditor. which bring desktop MS word like capability for drupal article writing.

And here 's a screen shot of the online Fckeditor:

Steps to install fckeditorRead more