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Know What is Drupal Gardens ?

" Overview of Drupal Gardens"

In our previous discussion, we learned about what is Drupal?  It was an explanation about  Core Drupal which is a standard version that you can download for free from Drupal.org website.
In this discussion, we are going to learn about Drupal and Drupal Gardens. It is just an overview of Drupal Gardens if you know Drupal already. Basically, Drupal Gardens is core Drupal but with a few changes that make it easy to use and more flexible.

Most importantly it's completely hosted and maintained by the company that created it, which is named Acquia. As a result of this, you don't have to install or maintain any part of it. Hosting is a big part that stops a lot of people from having their own Drupal site.

To sign up for Drupal Gardens go to www.drupalgardens.com. If you are already on Drupal Gardens and if signed in, you can have a look around and see exactly what comes with Drupal Gardens. Read some of the marketing material and so on. Then if you scroll down at the bottom and there you will see that it gives you a little bit more information about pricing and features etc.

The most important thing to know about this is their basic level which is known as Super Drupal is completely free. The only thing about this basic level is that it will show ads on your website. If you want to stop that from happening then you have to upgrade to Superer Drupal or to the Superest Drupal and may have another level.

If you want to have a bigger site then use most Superest Drupal and these prices of course will vary so It is recommended to you that do come to this page and when you are ready to get started, see what the current pricing is. One more important thing is that Acquia is not the only company that fully hosts and maintains the Drupal. There is another one called Buzzr to which you can go by typing www.buzzr.com.

If you are interested in hosting Drupal then you need to check both Drupal Gardens and Buzzr. While Drupal Gardens make Drupal easier it has some limitations on what you can do.

There are 2 biggest limitations :

1. You cannot import an existing site: If you already built a Drupal site elsewhere then you have to completely rebuild it again on Drupal Gardens. It is best for those sites that are just starting up from the beginning.

2. You cannot add contributed themes:  Contributed themes like any modules or custom programming or any already made themes to your Drupal Gardens site.

You have to use what they give you. Now having said that, what they give you is really quite impressive. For that, you need to go to any already created Drupal Gardens website and log in as an administrator so that you can have certain abilities that an ordinary visitor doesn't have.

On that site, you can see a Theme Builder and if you want to change the themes then you can do that. There is one theme called Campaign and if you are switching it over to the Minimal Theme and once you are done you can actually change the style, which you see in front of you.

You can create and modify themes within Drupal Gardens own interface using 'Theme Builder' that's what you will see here. But the 100's of themes that are available from drupal.org and the private vendors, they are all off limits. This Theme Builder is really amazing. If you are using core Drupal then there is a module that is very similar to this, it's called a Sweaver at the http://drupal.org/project/sweaver.

Another limitation of Drupal Gardens is that just as the themes you can't bring any contributed module or a custom programming that you are using to your Drupal Gardens site. A list of such contributed modules is at http://www.drupal.org/project/modules/ . Again you can use this on core Drupal but not on Drupal Gardens.

The last big limitation of Drupal Gardens is that you don't have direct access to the server except through Drupal Gardens own interface. So you cannot do such things as increase PHP memory allocation or set a custom .ht access file. It is for those people who don't have to deal with such details. Now having said that there are few things that you can do through Drupal Gardens:

1. You can host several sites from one Drupal Gardens account. It is called as Multisite System. For that you need to go to mysites where you will find the list of all the sites to which you have control over.

2. The second thing that you can do is you can make the site accessible through a custom domain. When checked the domain of this is drupalgardens.com and if you go to any one of your sites, then it's the sites name.drupalgardens.com. You can change into xyz.com whatever your domain is, pretty easily.

This feature is available to only paid accounts on Drupal Gardens. To do that once again you need to go to mysites and click Managed Domain, which will give you instructions on how that works. As discussed earlier you can't import existing site into Drupal Gardens but you can export existing site from Drupal Gardens and can host them anywhere else you like. To do that go back to mysites, click 'More' button next to whatever domain you want to handle, it will tell you how to export it. There are some high points of Drupal Gardens, so try it.




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