Early on the week of January 23rd, 2012, Google announced a substantial change to their privacy policy across most of their applications. You can read it here. In a nutshell, Google now makes it very clear that that they will collect your name, address, telephone, IP address, device information, location, browser information, search results, and Gmail messages to associate them with one master account. This new privacy policy is a big step because it allows all of Google's applications to share your information liberally. By doing this, Google will know exactly who you are whenever you use its products.

The WYSIWYG module for Drupal is extremely useful in terms of providing a great plugin for many different WYSIWYG editors. It even allows you to select the different WYSIWYG buttons that will be available for different input formats. However, this functionality has a downside: It places all of the buttons in one long, unorganized line if you place them in with the Drupal interface.

As the desire for neater and sleeker user interface increases, the ability to provide a website administrator with the ability to sort content that will appear on a list page. Granted, there are a number of great modules that allow for the sorting of pre-defined nodes, but sometimes you just have to sort items (whether they are nodes or rows from a custom table) in a completely custom way.

This is the first in a series of blog posts whose goal is to easily explain the important parts of building your own custom Drupal website. As the most important part of any website is displaying content to your viewers, we'll start by discussing what a content type is, how to create one, and how to display it to viewers of your website.