I’m doing a lot of work in Drupal at the moment and the thought occurred that an expanded explanation on the subject would be quite useful – if not now then at some point in the near future. So this post will seek to explain what Drupal is, what it does, and its customisation and extensibility options.
What is Drupal?
From a technical standpoint Drupal is a Content Management System, or CMS. That is, it enables people to set up sites that manage and deliver/present content, as well as facilitate …

I’ve managed to get my new wiki and version of Drupal resolving to subdomains of techticker.net via Cloaked WebForwarding. The advantage of this is that the applications no longer reference really a long URL that features an IP address, port number, subdomain, and complicated PHP?variable string. So it’s easier to remember and even easier to type.
Web forwarding works by including the entire site within an invisible frame. The invisible frame references a URL that is entered in the browser address – in this case http://wiki.techticker.net – with …