Speed up a Drupal web site by using a simpler theme

A Drupal theme controls the look of a web site by setting text colors, fonts, and decorative images. Speed up a web site by selecting a theme that has fewer and smaller images and CSS files. This will make your web pages smaller, faster to send to your site's visitors, and easier for their web browsers to draw.The CSS and image files of Drupal's default "Garland" theme account for up to 50% of the page size. Other themes are much larger with more CSS, images, and JavaScript. Speed up a site by using a simpler theme with fewer files to download on every page.A wide variety of free themes are available in the Themes section of the Drupal web site. The themes vary a lot in size and complexity. To know more about size of common themes visit Speed up a Drupal web site by using a simpler theme.

Drupal Con * DC

Drupal conference is going to be held on march 4-7 2009. It is the event for drupal developers.It's where decisions are made, clients and talent are found, and new stuff is unveiled. For more information visit

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Drupal 6.6 released

The newer verson Drupal 6.6 has been released.Drupal 6.6 maintenance releases fixing problems reported using the bug tracking system, as well as critical security vulnerabilities, are now available for download.There are no new features in these releases. For more information about the Drupal 6.x release series, consult the Drupal 6.0 release announcement.

Contributing our modules in Drupal.org

Recently myself and my project lead abdu rahim along with help of our DCC(drupal competency center) team created our own custom module "email_blast" where we can send bulk emails and also we can track in database when the users has read the email. we are also tracking the number of times the user has read the mail. we are sure there is not such module in drupal.org. After making it to drupal coding standars we are planning to put it in drupal.org site after getting prior permission from our company.

Upcoming Ruby On Rail

Ruby on Rails is MVC framework with powerful oop concept than java. Many leading companies have started using it.So it's a great fit for practically any type of web application let be a software for collaboration, community, e-commerce, content management, statistics, management.

Article Writing

I am going to start writing article about various new technologies like iphones,xbox. For this article writing i have contacted one writer where he will specify the product and rate for each article.

LightBox Effect for websites

Most of the websites are using ajax and lightbox for opening an innerform or to show a n informative message. Similarly through drupal 6 "popups" module we can customize in our custom forms to give that lightbox effect. We are planning to incorprate these things in our upcoming projects.

PHPFree Chat Customization

In drupal there is a module called "Phpfreechat" which customizes free source of PHPFreechat. But it has lot of bugs in it. I have integrated the the free source of PHPfreechat and customized to use it in drupal.