How to use Typekit fonts in Drupal Gardens

• Login to your drupal gardens account
• Login to your typekit.com account. Create a new account if you don't have one.
• Create a new kit (You will need your drupalgardens domain name)

Creating a Kit in typekit

• Insert javascript code provided by typekit into your website
• Find a font 

Find a new font for your drupal gardens website

• Go to your font and click add to kit button.
• A popup will appear, click publish button.

• Now you can use this font into your drupal gardens website. 

Drupal Gardens Mobile

Drupal Gardens doesn't support mobile friendly websites at the moment, however they have taken this initiative and this will be included in next version of Drupal Gardens. Here's the link http://groups.drupal.org/mobile/drupal-8 but they are not sure when new version will be released.


A solution is to create a self hosted mobile website and then redirect drupal gardens website to that particular mobile website, detecting the Operating System with the help of javascript. We develop mobile friendly websites using WordPress and custom PHP.

Druapl Gardens Sample Website

Drupal Gardens Help

Help make my Drupal Gardens sites look great:

This article demonstrates the very basic things about Drupal Gardens, its good for those who are new to Drupal Gardens and want to learn it thoroughly. Drupal Gardens is actually a Drupal 7 as a Service, which was introduced in 2010. There are a lots new features which were not in standard Drupal, actually Drupal Gardens enhance the services and productivity of Drupal. You can built websites free of cost in Drupal Gardens, hosting is not a problem here. Drupal Gardens is awesome, user-friendly, and very easy product that one can understand easily, I f you are interested, Go Ahead!!!

Some Snapshots from Drupal Gardens which will guide you

Here are some related videos

An introduction to Drupal Gardens:


 An overview of Drupal Gardens comparing it to Wordpress.com, Description of different features, modules and properties of Drupal Garden, also the description about the purpose and usage of Drupal Gardens.

Selecting and styling theme in Drupal Gardens:


In this video there is a little description about how to choose and apply the theme in your Drupal Gardens website, and also how to styling the theme i.e how to change font color, background color.It also tells the method of selection elements and publishing of theme. 

How to use Webforms in Drupal Gardens: 


This is a quick tutorial to guide you the basics of creating Webforms in Drupal Gardens with important fields in a very easiest way which you can easily understand, Webforms allows rich data collection

How to use Menus in Drupal Gardens:

 This tutorials guides the method of creating menus both dynamic and custom. Menus helps your site visitors to hit the URLs of their choice directly through navigation. This tutorial simplifies the method of crating menus. You'll enjoy playing with it.

  

Drupal Garden Video

You can create socially smart websites and micro sites that accelerate your business with Drupal Gardens.I have made research that how Drupal Garden is helpful for making a website and I want to share my experience with all.


Watch these videos:

Drupal Gardens Ecommerce

E-commerce in Drupal Gardens website is not supported directly, but you can use it with the help of third party:


Here are some information which is very useful:


When you registered into Drupal Gardens, you’ll requested to select any type of website you want to built: Campaign( it is standard), Product(it is e-commerce), Blog or create of your own choice. . The first three site options are of specific setup related to their category. And the last one “create your own” lets you decide everything from scratch to have it 100% personalize.

Configuring Ecommerce in your Drupal Gardens website is a higher priority feature but yet not directly supported. There are various third-party payment modules that you can use in your website without having to export it. Drupal Gardens offers the capability to import content from an existing site or from a different content management system. Drupal Gardens does offer a single sign-on system. The same account allows you, and also your users to access multiple sites. Furthermore, signing into your account of Drupal Gardens, provides you the functionality to access to a multisite management panel, in which you can see all your websites at glance and can manage your domains.

Tips for first-time Drupal Gardens users

If  you are using Drupal Gardens for the first time, you must have to keep the following points in your mind:

• Have a copy of your website open after you publish it in another browser window so you can view changes live as they are made, and also see how they behave in other web browsers.
• Ensure your content has proper spelling and grammar. Also be sure to delete any placeholder and test content in your site. Chances are, this content is the oldest on your site; go to the Content page and sort your site content by "Updated date" so that the oldest content is grouped at the top.
• If you’re using the Stay connected Feature to create links to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the like, confirm you have added links to your profiles: Configuration > Web Services > Follow Links.
• If you took your site offline using Drupal’s  maintenance mode, it's time to put it back online:Configuration > Development > Maintenance.
• Log out of your site and browse it as an  anonymous(unauthenticated) visitor. Confirm site visitors can see and do whatever you want them too, and no more! If needed, correct any permissions for various user roles: People > Permissions.
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• Upload a small, branded icon for your site known as a "favicon" which will appear in your user's browser tab and bookmarks: Appearance > Brand > Logo.
• Optimize your site for search engines and track site traffic statistics by following these SEO instructions
• If you turned off CSS and JS aggregation for testing, re-enable them for optimum site speed:Configuration > Development > Performance.
• Submit your site to the Drupal Gardens Showcase, post a link to it on Twitter, Facebook and tell the world!