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Creating Short URLs For Twitter

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Using three contributed modules (Shorten, Short URL and Tweet) I show you how to create short urls for your Drupal site that are easily shared on Twitter.

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MP3 Audio Player

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In this lesson I show you how to present uploaded mp3 audio files in a flash player using the MP3 Player module.

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Image Gallery Enhancements

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This lesson shows you how to enhance the image gallery created in the previous lesson using Thickbox, Media RSS and Views Slideshow.

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Create An Image Gallery With CCK, Views And ImageCache

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This lesson shows how to create an image gallery using CCK with ImageField, Views and ImageCache. CCK is used to create a new "image" content type that contains an upload field for images courtesy of ImageField. ImageCache is used to crop and resize the uploaded images. Views is used to display gallery page and an accompanying RSS Feed.

Adding Community Features To Your Site

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Lesson Fifteen of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.

This lesson provides guidance on how to get a community started by configuring the core forum module , the core tracker module and allowing users to be able to set up their own account. Includes a look at the changes required to the Mollom (spam prevention) and Comment Notify (subscribe to comments) modules that were initially added in Lesson Eleven.

Install FCKeditor Using WYSIWYG API

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This video tutorial shows how to install FCKeditor using the WYSIWYG API module. WYSIWYG makes it easy to install the most popular content editors on a Drupal site.

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Install Locally With Acquia Drupal Stack Installer

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This video shows how to install Drupal locally by using the Acquia Drupal stack installer. This is different from my previous localhost install video which required separate installations of Drupal and Wampserver. Acquia's installer is an all-in-one package that installs Acquia Drupal, MySQL, PHP and PhpMyAdmin.

Multi User Blogging Setup

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Lesson Fourteen of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.

Configuring User Profiles

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Lesson Thirteen of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos. 

This lesson provides instruction on the configuration of user profiles, including enabling profiles for public viewing and adding custom fields by using the core profile module.

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Using Views To Create A Block

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This lesson shows how to use the Views module to create a block that contains a list of node titles that link to their respective nodes.

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