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1. What is Drupal?
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Drupal is an open source web content management framework for building Internet portals, corporate web site, e-commerce sites, and more.

   
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2. What is Drupal Decoded?
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is a website site that helps you create nice looking professional, corporate or personal web sites through a set of themes and functionalities available to choose from. You can choose from 26 modules and five different templates. Each template comes with a different set of modules pre integrated to give you a feel of its capabilities. You can choose the template most suited to your needs. Professional help in installation and customization of the modules is available from the technical support team at . Just select the template you like most, select the modules you want to implement, place an order and relax. The basic site will be delivered in five business days after payment is received.

   
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3. Why should I use Drupal?
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Being open source with a strong developer framework makes drupal the best choice in the content management space. Drupal facilitates content search, automatically track usage, and allows comments on any content element. Drupal provides for a strong role based security platform. In addition, drupal has a number of modules / themes readily available to choose from.

   
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4. What advantages do I have if I go for web site?
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team helps individuals, small business houses and the users, who need professional /technical help in setting up an architecturally strong Content Management System driven website at a very low cost.

   
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5. What is the typical cost of a web site?
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Each template with three free modules costs US $500. Each additional module that you need to implement can by purchased for US $25 or US $50 depending on the module.

   
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6. What can I achieve with the website?
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The website offers five different templates each integrable with some or all of the 26 available Drupal modules. Modules configured in templates are Drupal plugins that extend its core functionality. So the user can make his site within a short period of time with architecturally strong and well configured modules. Better still, the user can view and have a feel of these modules through before selecting them. Moreover, a strong technical team is available to support your Drupal installation.

   
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7. What are the different modules available at ?
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Please click on the link http://www.drupaldecoded.com/htm/features.htm to view the details of each module.

   
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8. What is Drupal Decoded template and types of templates available in Drupal Decoded?
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Web Access believes in creative imagination and innovation. Templates are just for the demonstrations for the list of modules with themes implemented, we can provide. has implemented 5 different templates to show the working and use of diffeent type of modules being used.

   
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9. Can you configure all the modules in any of the five templates?
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Yes in most cases. However, for details of the modules and template integration you may click on the link

   
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10. Why the modules are priced so low?
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Drupal works on the open source platform and modules are contributed by various developers who want to extend the open source world. These are very powerful in terms of features and strongly compete with various closed source products.

   
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11. What is blog module?
A. Blog module allows registered users to maintain an online weblog (commonly known as blog), often referred to as an online journal or diary. Blogs are made up of individual posts that are time stamped and are typically viewed by date.
   
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12 What is User Status Notification?
A. This is a module that enables sites to automatically send customized email notifications on the following events:
Account Activated
Account Blocked
Account Deleted
The first case is especially useful for sites that are configured to require administrator approval for new account requests.
   
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13. What are Image Galleries?
A. Image galleries are functionalities available in the image module and allow users to categorise, caption and organize image library on the web. Image gallery also enables managing movies, flash and audio content. It supports .gif, .jpg and .png formats. Image Gallery access requires the ACL module in order to function.
   
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14. How can I upload the images in my image gallery?
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www.drupaldecoded.com technical team will download and configure the image gallery for you. Once the image gallery has been configured, you can use the image upload option, browse for the required images and upload.

   
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15. What is the optimum size of images that I should use?
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You can upload images of any size with a maximum size limit of 8 MB. It is recommended to use 640 X 480 size for an image to get faster speeds.

   
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16. Are the images required to be size optimized before uploading?
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Yes, it is recommended that images be size optimized as non-optimized images will increase download /upload times and also may not be presentable in the proper size.

   
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17. What is Ad Module?
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The ad module is a powerful advertising system for Drupal-powered websites. It supports the random display and tracking of graphical (banner) and text advertisements. Advertisements can easily be displayed in themes, blocks, or embedded in site content.

   
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18. What advantages are offered by Advertisement Module?
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The advantages of using Ad Module are:

It enables auto-generated ad blocks supporting a configurable number of ads
It allows automatic or manual embedding of ads into the site content
It enables collection of comprehensive statistics allowing time-based reporting and analysis
Enables tracking of when and where ads are clicked, by which user and which IP
Integrated with the views module for fine-grained control of which ads are displayed where and to whom
Enables Advertisements to have multiple owners etc.
   
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19. How can I use Ads Module for my advertisements?
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The Ad module can be used for displaying your banner advertisements on your website. It comes enabled with a whole lot of features such as :-

Statistics on how many visitors have clicked your ad
Random Display of Ads from a list of active uploaded Ad's and more
Validity date/(s) for the Ad for display
Display on Front as well as inner pages
   
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20. Why use Drupal Chat Room module?
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This module enables Chat Rooms to be set up on Drupal sites without using any additional software. Chat Room uses AJAX to update chats without page reloads.

   
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21. What is Book Module?
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This snippet will create a book navigation menu that can be present on your site any time, not just when navigating a book. It supports multiple books on same site. It allows you to select the number of levels you want to show in the initial navigation.

   
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22. What is Taxonomy ticker?
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Taxonomy Ticker is a simple program to scroll text/ images across a line of the display, in a manner similar to a stock ticker. In fact, since ticker supports communicating with a program that changes the text periodically, it could be used to implement a stock ticker.

   
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23. Why should I use Taxonomy ticker?
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It provides a block displaying titles of nodes (related to a particular taxonomy term) in a scrolling news ticker. The "ticking" code integrates well in Drupal xhtml code. It is possible to configure the scrolling type (vertical, horizontal) and display speeds (extra slow to extra fast).

   
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24. What is forum?
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Its a module that lets you create threaded discussion boards, called forums, on your site.

   
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25. Why is forum used?
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Forum is a complete system that is intended to replace the existing Drupal forum module. Although it uses its own tables for the storage of posts, threads and forums and can happily run side by side with the existing drupal forum provided you don't rename the URL on the configure page for the module to be "forum" while the Drupal forum module is installed.

   
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26. What is CiviCRM?
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CiviCRM is the first open source and freely downloadable Constituent Relationship Management solution. It is a web-based, open source, internationalised and designed specifically to meet the needs of advocacy, non-profit and non-governmental group.

   
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27. What is Poll?
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It is one of drupal module that enables your site to capture votes on different topics in the form of multiple choice questions. Poll module lets you create simple polls. You ask a question, provide possible answers and let your users vote. The module then keeps a running tally of the record.

   
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28. What is Search?
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Search module is one of the drupal module that lets users search for specific content on the site. You can search both for users as well as for keywords.

   
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29. What is Menu?
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Menu module lets you customize your menus. Menu appears in blocks on your site and helps visitors and users find their way around. The main menu for navigation is by default called "Navigation".

   
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30. How can I add the Menu to my Drupal site?
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The strong technical team at can help you with the menu on your Drupal site.

   
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31. What is Avatar?
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Avatar is the one of the drupal module. It is an icon or representation of a user in a shared virtual reality.

   
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32. How doe Avatar module work?
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When a users edit their account details, they can choose to upload an image or photo of themselves, also known as an Avatar. An Avatar selection module allows the user to pick an Avatar image from a list already loaded by an administrative user. It is also possible to disable the uploading of pictures by users and only allow them to select an Avatar icon from the list. The module also facilitates configuration of default list of avatar icons that a user can use instead of uploading a picture.

   
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33. What is comment?
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Comment module creates a discussion board for each post. Users can post comments to discuss a forum topic, weblog post, story, collaborative book page, etc. The ability to comment is an important part of involving members in a community dialogue.

   
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34. What is Event?
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This is a simple module to keep track of events and show them to users in various calendar displays. It also provides an event API to allow other modules to store and work with date data.

   
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35. Can you create your own event?
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Yes. Custom event types can be created using or . Please contact technical support team at to help you in the process.

   
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36. What is Five Star Voting?
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It is a drupal module that enables voting for comment, forum and book. It adds a clean, attractive voting widget to nodes in Drupal. Five Star introduces configurable sets of stars on your site, while you can still override these stars with your own theme. The module displays a number of stars that you set. A single click from by a reader rates the page with that number (i.e., casts a single vote for that number). You can view the average ratings over all viewers, and find out how popular that node is.

   
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37. What is Organic Group?
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Organic Group enables users to create and manage their own groups. Each group can have subscribers and maintain a group home page where subscribers communicate amongst themselves. They do so by posting the usual node types: blog, story, page, etc.

   
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38. What is TinyMCE Editor?
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TinyMCE is a platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by . It has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances.

   
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39. What features are supported in TinyMCE Editor?
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The features supported in TinyMCE are:

Customizable through themes and plugins.
Customizable XHTML 1.0 output. Block invalid elements and force attributes.
International language support (Language packs)
Multiple browser support, Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera and Safari (experimental).
PHP/.NET/JSP/Coldfusion GZip compressor, Makes TinyMCE 75% smaller and a lot faster to load.
You can easily use AJAX to save and load content!
   
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40. What is Mail Group?
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It allows site moderators (or anyone with permission), to send mass e-mail to a set role or group of roles or even to all registered users.

   
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41. What is Ubercart?
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Ubercart is a shopping cart and e-commerce suite built on top of the leading open source CMS, Drupal. Ubercart is totally integrated with Drupal's major core and contributed systems, providing you with a shopping cart on top of your normal community or company website.

   
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42. Why should I use UberCart?
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Ubercart is a great solution for any of the following e-commerce needs:

Selling physical goods from any sized product catalogue.
Selling file downloads (i.e. music, videos, software).
Selling site access for members only websites, including automatic expiration and renewal of user access.

The cart has been designed so that official and third party developers can add to or alter its features to adapt it for virtually any e-commerce need.

   
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43. What payment methods are supported by Ubercart?
A. It allows payment through the following:
PayPal
Authorize.net
CyberSource
PayflowPro
LinkPoint API
Moneris
   
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44. Can I view the order Report in Ubercart?
A. Yes. For support contact technical team at . You can also view a demonstration at
   
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45. Do I need to buy some software to host the website?
A. No, it uses open source components, which are freely available for download as well as come pre-installed with standard hosting packages.
   
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46. How many days does it take to implement the site?
A. It will take upto 5 Business days to implement the site with the default installation modules after payment has been received.
   
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47. What is the process of implementing a web site from www.drupaldecoded.com?
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It is a simple three step process:
Step 1: Check the minimum server configuration required at . You can also download the same at

Step 2: Select the template ans modue you wish to implement for your web presence sat www.drupaldecoded.com and place an order for required modules on the website.

Step 3: The tech team at www.drupaldecoded.com shall complete the installation process. Custome changes, if any, shall be made based on your specific requirement.

   
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48. How do I know if my server is compatible for hosting the Drupal Decoded Website?
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Pl check for server configuration at

   
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49. How do I get the support after I implement the Drupal Decoded web site?
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There are two different support options available
Mail :
Phone : +1 973 799 8562 / +1-203-554-7644 / +1-415-762-0245
From 4.30 GMT to 13.30 GMT

   
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