NIKHIL BANSAL: Drupal
Showing posts with label Drupal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drupal. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

A week under free flamboyancy

Hi friends..

I am embarrass writing this post after so long time but due to some hectic schedules I didn't get time to share my feelings with you.
But now as I got some time I am here to share something nice with you. :)

This is something about what I love a lot. This is about a time period that thought me a lot of things. I am talking about our college Linux Users Group "LUGB". A group with which I am working since December 2009. Recently LUGB organised a complete week for spreading FOSS culture and to aware people what actually FOSS is.

That was really as awesome experience for me. Working with FOSS and making students aware what they actually losing without it. LUGB is at present an active community for everybody who loves FOSS and who wants to learn about FOSS.
Recently LUGB is working to get people familiar with FOSS side by side spreading it to every corner of our region.

So we called the week as LUGB Week. The week started on last monday and we started from our college Engineering College Bikaner where fortunately FOSS culture flourishing faster than any other place.So we aimed the week to get our juniors aware about FOSS who thinks Computer == Windows. So primarily we maintain a team who is eligible to bust all these sorts of myths they had in their mind. So enough reason why we named our first talk as "Myth Buster".
That was fully interaction based talk where our team members busted all the myths they had about FOSS and Linux.

A nice strength of students gathered for the talk and as I said It's the place where FOSS culture is flourishing faster than any other place, proved us. Feedback by students were awesome and many of them were die heart impressed by FOSS. But as we have planned for a week we had 5 more days to go.

So the next day it was the day called "Drupaldum". We simply want to make our talks interesting so we choose the topics which a normal student might be interested in. And here comes an idea about web designings and Drupal seemed to be a best example how we can work collaboratively. A complete talk about Drupal installation and workings was given and made students familiar about the web.

This was about two days working of the group. Different people from group arranged very nice and interactive talks under LUGB. The week covered each and every aspect about FOSS from software development to Hardware interfacing. Into Hardware section my colleagues make student aware about arduino , beaglebot etc.

So thus complete week was full of fun and freedom. Lugb is recently working with Mr. Shyam Sunder Jiyani the man who claimed his name twice into Limca Book of world Records for planting more then 2 lakh plants in a sort interval of time.

At last , It was a nice week for me to work for LUGB as well as FOSS. Me myself completely in  love with FOSS and working with Drupal from last eight months.
So that was all about my last week which I called A week under free flamboyancy.
:)
cheers !!

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Joomla,Drupal,Wordpress...

Hey guys !!!

This time I come with an interesting topic over which when I worked I got some interesting facts.We all are very well aware about CMS (Content Management System).There are lots of CMS available to work upon in market but we are in dilemma which one is appropriate to work.
hmmm... :)

Well according to me there are lot of factors which can be help in building your web reputation.But all of these CMS rarely fulfill these need,then we tends to the needs which we can fulfill with available options.One of the most required need is SEO (Search Engine Optimisation).What it really means?
when we search a keyword in Google,we get some results.We all know all these are not relevant but these are the results which are optimized by the search engine (google).Every search engine has its different optimization.Similarly when we search on other search engine like yahoo,Bing,Altavista we get different search results.It shows that which site is how much optimized with any search engine.

Now we'll talk about our title.We are very much aware about Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress.hundreds of websites are running with help of these CMS.But as we know Drupal won this year's Best CMS award.This is what I am talking about druapl's uniqueness from other CMS.Even White house government using Drupal CMS.This year wordpress stood Second in the list and Joomla third.

Definitely we can prefer Joomla for the purpose of making our site attractive but when it comes to our global ranking we'll not.There are lots of modules in Drupal as pathauto, nodewords which directly link our web url with the keywords.One more thing I like in reference of Drupal over Joomla as-
Can you predict just watching the url about what it relates to?
http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=429
but now just watch this url-
http://drupal.org/drupal-6.14
:)
Everything is pity clear we do not search with help of keyword "viewforum.php?f=429" so that we can get this directly searching on web.But we do definitely with help of "drupal-6.14".That's the major difference which makes Drupal apart with other CMS.

There are other factors too as data security, creativity,architectural work which can be taken under consideration while evaluating best CMS but certainly these should fulfill our purpose completely.
Working in this regard I agree I have to work a lot but what I experienced I think I should share with you.

:)