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Drupal – Content Management System

Drupal, an open source content management system, has released its 6.5 and 5.11 versions. Any user can use it easy and comfortable even without special programming background.

Just find the list of new modules on this page. All of them divided by categories. But if you want to create new modules for your specific purposes it’s possible too. In case you have questions or any problems you can ask about on the forum.

Drupal has an automated installation script that automatically populates database tables and sets the correct settings in settings.php file.

You can get detailed instructions how to install Drupal step by step online.

New Tools from Yahoo!

Yahoo! recently launched a tool allowing to compress and optimize the size of any image, on the fly, without losing quality.

Smushit.com is a service that goes beyond the limitations of Photoshop, Fireworks & Co. It uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images – without changing their look or visual quality. You’ll get a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images and all the changed images as a single zip for download.

Smush it comes in different flavours:

You can upload a bunch of pictures in your browser
You can provide us with a list of image urls or
You can get a Firefox Extension to optimize the images found on any web page
Saving bytes has never been so easy – you point us in the right direction, and we’ll do the rest for you. A ZIP archive with optimized images will be generated for you.

Managing Websites

Thanks to the advances in computers and the internet, practically anything can be done from home. If you are the slightest bit computer minded then why not try and get involved in web management.

You don’t have to be a computer genius to manage websites. All it really is, is about updating the websites on a regular basis and making sure the information is current. There are some simple programs in place which let you manage your own websites. If for example you want to run a local news website, then all that you have to do is build the skeleton of the website and choose a few things that can be variable. On a regular basis, daily or weekly you can go in and change these details. Mostly it is about writing web content for the websites that is fresh and new.

How do you get paid for this you may wonder? Well there are two ways; if you own the website yourself then you can get paid via the advertising that you allow to be posted in your website. That is how many of these commercial websites make money. You can also have links posted on your website and for every customer that gets to a third party website from yours, you are paid a small amount.

If you do not own the website but are just being paid to maintain it and write up to date information and articles then it speaks for itself how you will get paid for your work. Updating and maintaining websites is easy and simple and can be done from the comfort of your own home without any hassles. You can work as an independent or a salaried worker and each option reaps in rewards.