All AUSWEB cPanel hosting accounts include Fantastico Deluxe, which is an automated installer for many opensource applications. Using Fantastico make it simple to install Drupal into your hosting account, you just need to supply some basic information and with a few mouse clicks Drupal is installed and you are ready to start adding content.

Drupal 5.3 Released

Drupal 5.3 has been released by the good people at drupal.org and can be downloaded from the Drupal project download section. This is a maintenance release that fixes several bugs, as well as some security vulnerabilities.

It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to Drupal 5.3, to avoid leaving your site open to exploits through the security vulnerabilities of earlier versions.

Installing Modules

You can add extra functionality to your Drupal site with Modules. The standard install of Drupal comes with many modules that can be enabled via Administer > Site Building > Modules. There are also many 3rd party modules available from the drupal.org site. Being opensource, there is a large community of people world-wide who contribute themes and modules for Drupal that are free to use.

Installing Themes

Once you have your Drupal site up and running, the first thing you will most likely want to do is change the look of the site to suit your needs. Fortunately Drupal uses themes, which simplifies the process. There are many themes available for download from the drupal.org site and many other sites. Being opensource, there is a large community of people world-wide who contribute theme and modules that are free to use.

Drupal Features

General features

Collaborative Book - Our unique collaborative book feature lets you setup a "book" and then authorize other individuals to contribute content.

Friendly URLs - Drupal uses Apache's mod_rewrite to enable customizable URLs that are both user and search engine friendly.

Modules - The Drupal community has contributed many modules which provide functionality that extend Drupal core.

What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including

  • Community web portals
  • Discussion sites
  • Corporate web sites
  • Intranet applications
  • Personal web sites or blogs
  • Aficionado sites
  • E-commerce applications
  • Resource directories
  • Social Networking sites