The Image FUpload module is an add-on to the Image and CCK's Imagefield modules, and allows you to upload multiple images at once with just a few simple clicks. You can use it with both single-value and multi-value imagefields, and it will automatically create the nodes for you.

For a project I've been working on recently, I needed the ability to have a two column table layout in Views. The idea was to place the field label in the first column, and the field data in the second. I had tried achieving the same layout using the unformatted default layout with some CSS, but was unable to get the label and field data to line up correctly, and so eventually wrote a views plugin to achieve the effect using tables.

The screenshot below shows what the final result looks like.

Project page: http://drupal.org/project/views_two_column_table

New releases of the FAQ module have been made - versions 5.x-2.13 and 6.x-1.9. This release includes a fair few new features, including the ability to drag and drop questions when re-ordering and a new "administer faq weights" permission. There are also a number of bug fixes too.

The new features added include:

• #390404 - added [faq] input filter.
• #475600 - added "administer faq weights" permission, and moved weight ordering tab to each individual FAQ page.

Over a year and a half after Drupal 6 was released, I've finally gotten around to releasing a Drupal 6 version of the Ocadia theme. The design is based on a Wordpress theme done by Beccary and subsequently ported to Drupal 4.7 by Scar_T. I came on-board after creating a Drupal 5 version of it for one of my friend's websites, Irlandia Ceramics.

I don't get asked to review books often, so I was delighted when I got asked to review Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization by Ben Finklea, it being top of my list of Drupal books to buy. Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is all about improving your site's position in search results. It's part science, part art, and involves a lot of small, but simple, improvements to your website. An important SEO skill is knowing what keywords to use for your site and how to avoid common mistakes that could have a detrimental effect on your site's ranking. This book does an excellent job at explaining just that and includes great advice and step by step instructions.

The book assumes you're a Drupal newbie, which I was a bit surprised by at first. I wasn't really expecting to see instructions on how to install a Drupal module, but this approach is used throughout the book and is a strong selling point. It takes the magic out of SEO so everyone, regardless of skill level or familiarity with Drupal, can achieve the most from their site.

The Ubercart module is one of the best e-commerce options for Drupal currently. It is very user friendly and highly flexible with administrators having control over the product catalogue, payment gateways and email notifications. Site administrators also have control over which checkout panes are displayed during checkout and the order in which they appear. However, as I found out recently, while it is easy to control checkout pane visibility, and even add your own, there's no simple way of modifying the forms contained within a checkout pane. This article will cover one solution on how to overcome this.

So you're migrating pages and users from another CMS to Drupal using the Migrate module, but how do you handle all those file attachments? This example will cover taking the input filename and adding it to an imagefield on a Drupal content type. However, this should work in exactly the same way for filefields too.

Trócaire is a leading Irish overseas development agency that works with amazing people to bring about positive and lasting changes in some of the world’s poorest places. Last year, Trócaire spent over €60 million on 124 programmes across 38 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Their programmes are carried out with partner organisations so local people drive the whole process and, in turn, their own development.

The programmes aim to:

• Build a reliable way of life and help people cope with climate change
• Respond to emergencies and disasters
• Tackle injustice and defend human rights
• Address the HIV and AIDS crisis
• Support gender equality

Trócaire's annual 'Lent campaign' is the single largest fundraising campaign in Ireland and enjoys huge support from the Irish public each year. Trócaire's website www.trocaire.org has become a key fundraising tool for the organisation and an essential way to show supporters the impact of its work and increase awareness.

Annertech built the Trócaire site using Drupal 6 and many contributed modules. In general, we used Migrate to pull in the data from the existing CMS, CCK to build the content, Views to list it, and Panels to arrange the items on a page. For example, the home page is a panel page containing several mini-panels, views and other blocks.

By default, all email sent from your site uses the site email address configured at admin/settings/site-information as the "from" address. On most sites this is set to something generic, like "webmaster@example.com" or "noreply@example.com". However in a lot of mail clients, when the email reaches your inbox, it appears as being just from "webmaster" or "noreply". Wouldn't it be better if it appeared as being from "Your site" or whatever you have set your site name to be?

Less than a month after Drupalcon Paris and I'm back from an awesome Drupal Camp in Belfast. It was a jammed pack couple of days with two presentation tracks, along with break out rooms, a documentation sprint and usability testing. Oh and a very successful Drupal Surgery too. Over 50 people attended and came from all over Ireland, as well as from Scotland and England.