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I just breathed a sigh of relief and patted myself on the back for being so dumb and yet oh so smart!

Introduction to Content Management Systems (CMS)

If you ever dabbled in building a website you know how time consuming it can be to build the pages from scratch, especially if you're hand coding them. Most people will opt to use a website building tool like Adobe's Dreamweaver or Microdsoft's Frontpage. Some hosting compnies also offer ways to build website using their web based building tools e.g. Godaddy's "Website Tonight".

After upgrading a few of my Drupal 4.7 sites to the shiny new 5.0 distribution I felt the need to document my quest for search engine bliss. As content management systems go, Drupal is quite good out of the box (comes with sexy looking URLs built in) but some elbow grease is still required to enter search engine nirvana. It would be nice to have all of the modules and tweaks I have document below built right into Drupal core. After all, the best looking, fastest loading and most expensive website is useless if it can't be found in google.

My site was originally implement with a 4.6 version of Drupal so months later after I'd installed 5 or so other site with the new 4.7.3 version I thought it would be nice to upgrade. Nice thought but in reality when I ran the upgrade script and watched the video too (thanks lullabot.com see the video here) all was not well. I ended up with a shite load of errors and images missing. Having recently coded some php to dump pages into drupal from sql text files I took it on as a little project and here is my experience. I do have the php code for those who wish - I'm a horrible coder so email me if you wish to look at this dogs breakfast! These are just my notes and you've probably have to of gotten your hands quite durty in the past to know what the hell I'm talking about here.