This book is written by two authors Trevor James and TJ Holowaychuk. Trevor  James is a Drupal developer and web-designer. He has been developing sites for more than 13 years. Drupal began to be intensively used more than two years ago. Mostly it has focused on the development of portals for higher education establishments. The book covers areas such as optimization, productivity and the use of CCK, Views and Panels for creating user-interfaces and for tracking and maintaining sites with large amounts of content.

Today, january 15 2010, our beloved program, our most flexible friend, reached 9 years!

Exactly nine years ago drupal version 1.0.0 was created.
Over nine years, it slowly, but faithfully, current trends notwithstanding, developed and became stronger. Only recently we renewed our sites to drupal 5 and looked forward to the alpha-version of drupal 6, no sooner had it appeared when already ‘number 7’ was being released.

"Web site Maintenance" is a modern concept. Usually, at the slightest mention of support owners of Internet sites are dismissive, claiming: "We are able to support ourselves." But in our experience by refusing support they condemn their own Internet project to, at minimum, a lifeless existence, and at worst a final failure.

There was the great time for offline commerce when promotional products had a great power, influence and multitude; besides they had no competition the online market that has spread dramatically so far. Currently the role of competitor is acted by the Internet (online ads, viral advertising, banners and links etc.). As a rule promotional products are frequently imprinted with a company's name, logo, motto or message. Both online advertising and promotional products have the goal to attract people who buy the products you want to sale.

Sometimes creating a new blog I wonder whether it’s worth for reader audience, if people coming to my blog get interesting and useful data. You know that the Internet itself frequently seems to be a place filled of foolish trash and junk. It’s so easy to make a blog and fill it with everything you want. What’s more putting Ad Sense, for example, to the newly made blog means potential revenue and getting extra money. The employment level in the Internet world is unbounded.

You want to get your site recognized by the main search engines and obtain high page ranking? It’s normal and ordinary dream every blogger desire to realize. Obviously that you need to be able to get your site or blog noticed by engines like Yahoo and Google. Despite others search engines these two are treated as most powerful and outstanding. The statistics and practice say that the best and most common way to get high PR and good stats of your site is to create as much as possible incoming links. They’ll undoubtedly improve the position of your site in search engines.

Web 2.0 is about socializing on the web world, which includes sharing various news, articles, jokes and pictures. Among all these, pictures are considered as one of the best medium to convey the message to the audience and are used in great deal in marketing. Flickr is one of the best places to share pictures and manage them. It is one of the easiest photo management and sharing application on web today. Flickr has more than 775,000 registered users, has 30 percent monthly growth rate, 19.5 billion+ photos and is the 5th most popular photo sharing site overall.

Keywords are the vital part of Search Engine Optimization. The relevant keywords and proper placement of them decides the visibility of your website on search engines. Relevant keywords help you get better traffic and reach potential buyers. Hence it is very important to expand your keyword list, to expand quality traffic on your site.

Outsourcing is defined as sending out (work, for example) to an outside provider or manufacturer in order to cut costs. One of the main reasons for the popularity of outsourcing is to lower cost or to cut cost. Money as we know is a huge factor in business. When one can get the same product or service with the same quality or better with less price, who’d want to miss that. The second reason will be increase in the flexibility. This is more important in the changing business world.