Drupal template regions Vs Drupal Panels

Drupal panels are the great effort to save time for the administrators to build custom pages with custom layouts. Using panels, administrator can build pages and add desired content on it. This does not require any programming or Drupal API knowledge. If you know the CSS, you can change tha appearance of the panel page by writing CSS rules for respective regions/panes.

The other approach is to use regions in template files of the theme. This is robust and can be controlled in the way you want. You can define the regions on info file of the theme and can decide where to display them on the page. These regions can be specific to certain pages and those pages should be unique. Working with Drupal templates takes a while to design and build and require some knowledge of Drupal API and Theme API.

It always depends on your requirement to decide what way to build the custom page design/layout. If you aim to re-use the region across multiple pages, you should do by defining a custom region in info file otherwise you should use panels which very quick to build and modify

Drupal Instagram search: Fetch from Instagram

This CodeLet will fetch all the results from instagram.com which are tagged with string in search box. Logged in users will be able to save and share the search.
Please use the js and CSS files attached with the CodeLet for better appearance.

Migrate Drupal site from local machine to server

Here are the steps to migrate a Drupal 7.x site developed locally to a server:

- Take database backup either using CLI or phpmyadmin like interface.

- Create a zip file of the Drupal set up you want to migrate to server

- Upload the zip file to server and extract it to desired location.

- Remove settings.php

- Go to browser and type the domain name/sub domain name and do a clean installation of Drupal as usual

- Import the database backup taken locally to server database.

- Make sure you have proper permissions sets on ‘files’ directory.

 

This is the quick and best way to migrate a local Drupal 7.x site to sever

Drupal Training course

Joshi Consultancy Services offers Drupal training course. Here is the outline of the Drupal course:

Drupal Basics:
Understanding Drupal
Installing Drupal
Creating Database and basic configuration
Adding/removing Drupal modules/themes
Module/theme configuration
Admin side configuration
User administration
Enabling/disabling blocks and block configuration
Content management
Understanding Drupal reports
Views, OG, CCK, and Panels: installation and configuration
Advanced profile kit, advanced forums: installation and configuration
Understanding Drupal APIs
Total Hours: 10 hours
Cost for Drupal Basic Training: 4000 INR + payment method fees/taxes, if any/applicable.

Drupal Advanced:
Writing Drupal modules including creating a table using the custom module in the db
Creating custom node by writing custom module
Creating admin configuration page by writing custom module
Understanding Drupal themes
Creating custom Drupal themes
Extra Custom Drupal theme configurations

Total Hours: 20 hours
Cost for Drupal Advanced training: 8000 INR + payment method fees/taxes, if any/applicable.

Hire Developers Virtually

In its efforts to improve the project management and better client satisfaction, Joshi Consultancy Services now offers hiring Developers virtually. Clients can select experienced Developers and assign theme with a project. All the developers work at company’s premises and the client can communicate with team directly. The team is dedicated to the client’s project only. This way, the project development can be expedite and client can work with the developer very closely. All the management and development is taken care by Joshi Consultancy Services itself. Please contact for more details.

Outsouring to Sweat Shops

Joshi Consultancy Services is committed and engaged to provide the best working environment to its employees. JCS offers best competitive salaries and other benefits so our employee can work with a peace of mind. JCS does not belive in working extra hours. We strictly close everything after our working hours. We celebrate all the major religious festivals according to Hindu calendar and public holidays celebrated by entire nation. We celebrate independence day and republic day at our work place.

We never work with clients who treat us as a Sweat shop. We never accepts such offers which include maximum work, minimum pay. Because JCS believes in Maximum work, fair pay! If clients do not outsource the projects and develop within their countries it would cost them almost 90 times costlier. The average salary of a well-experienced IT professional would be around US $2500 per week. If project spans for 2 months, for each such developer, the salary would  be US $10000 per month and if we consider other expenses like electricity, resources and other benifets to developer, it would cost them around $15000 per developer per month. And that’s why they oursource their projects and get them done in 90 times lower cost! They put some terms and condition which quite hard for an average developer working as freelancer.  Most of the time, they would have not paid the full payment because they fire the developer during the developer and hire someone else with lower cost!

We, at JCS, never entertain such practice by clients and always insist on 25% upfront payment paid by the client once we reach to an agreement with the client. Clients who do not willing to pay the upfront payment are those who are looking for sweaters. Sometimes clients puts conditions which are completely unacceptable.

We never do such practice in the interests our employees.

Realizing Ideas!

Realizing Ideas!

Yes, we really mean it!

Web development is the most dynamic field and to make a mark amongst others, you really need to do something that no one has ever tried to achieve. At Joshi Consultancy Services, we realize what ever the idea our client pops up to us! We suggest our clients the best cost-effective solutions. Our primary goal, at Joshi Consultancy Services,  is to make our invaluable clients delighted by delivering the best solutions to their requirements.

We offer services in Open Source Technology which includes platforms and frameworks like Joomla!, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, Simfony, WordPress and CakePHP. We also develop mobile applications and provide system administration support for client servers. We always believe in giving back to community and to realize this,  Joshi Consultancy Services is engaged in sponsoring Open Source projects. We have sponsored Drupal modules on drupal.org. They are

Contact form fields

Node feedback

WordPress Publish

There are other projects that we are considering to sponsor. We not only sponsor Open Source projects, but we continually offer support for such projects.

At Joshi Consultancy Services, we do all our best to meet the dead lines. Our Developers are so dedicated and skilled that we deliver the project on time. We have state of the art work place and  other benefits for your developers. We believe in providing the best working environments to our developers so they can work with full dedication. We follow all the business processes defined by the highly skilled professionals within Joshi Consultancy Services.

Come and experience the Realization!