Books on Drupal
There are a few books on Drupal and they range from everything for the beginner to everything for the advanced. I have a page devoted to Drupal books that are available for purchase along with a review on each of them.
Drupal Overview - Build a website in 10 minutes
Submitted by Drupal Dude on Tue, 09/04/2007 - 8:07pm.
So what is Drupal? What can you do with it? And what is a Content Management System (CMS)? I hope to answer these question, at least on a most basic level, by building a website in minutes using Drupal.
Content Management Systems (CMS) is generally the next step in website building. Most modern websites use some form of CMS system, from Drupal, to Joomla, to WordPress. There are many reasons for this, but the main reason is the ease of building a site and, more importantly, maintaining a site. By building your site in a CMS system, you bypass the need to rely on a webmaster to make small changes to your website. These changes you can make yourself in any standard browser. These changes could be anything from address changes, phone numbers, or special deals that are going on. Another major feature is you can set up roles for users. You can give users the ability to log in and make changes themselves, and only certain users can make certain changes.
The next question is why Drupal? I've worked with many CMS systems before and after working with Drupal, I feel I have found the holy grail when it comes to CMS systems. WordPress is good for blogging, but what if I wanted to do more? Joomla I had a hard time grasping the concept, although they do have great templates. Many other CMS systems have their distinct advantages as well. Somehow Drupal seemed to be a good balance to me.
You have modules to extend the feature set. Drupal is written in PHP and MySQL. There are many themes to extend the look of your Drupal site. The code is clean and lite. And search engines seem to love a properly set up Drupal site. I could go on.
Take a look at the video and watch how easy it is to have a Drupal site up and running with articles, a contact form, and an About Us page. Also, let me know what you think when it comes to CMS systems.
Drupal rocks!
Quantum Leap
I've been struggling to make progress with Drupal for a few months and wish I had come across your Drupal overview much earlier.
The first part of the video is very straightforward and easy to follow, but then there is a quantum leap when you show sites like www.viequesvoice.com. I simply don't have a clue about how to set about building a site like that. I can't even figure out the anatomy of the site in terms of its building blocks.
Now a video about getting started with a site like that would be really helpful.
Drupal How to for Beginners and All
We at Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd, Nepal (www.yipl.com.np) had recently jotted down a
"Drupal How to for Beginners" which mainly deals with setting up a Drupal website and adding, editing some content. It is based on Drupal 5.2.I've uploaded the file in the location below, hope you people benefit from it. It is 90+ pages .pdf file with step by step
explanation and screen-shots. Its 5.67 MB.
I'd like to hear from you so please don't hesitate to give feedback, replying in this thread or mail me. I think the linux users will have raise questions regarding use of XAMPP in windows but being web
interface I hope it does not matter. Hope to hear from you soon. All comments are welcome, I had posted it on Drupal Nepal and FOSS Nepal group as well. comments I got from there were encouraging. This document is licensed under Creative Commons Attibution-NC-SA license. So feel free to share it.
Download Link at http://geshan.blogspot.com/2007/11/drupal-how-to-for-beginners-and-all.h...
Geshan
drupal basics - install
Can you explane setting up a different install profile? the default turns on certain modules and things durring install, I find that I have a number of modules and things that are my standard and I beleive that you can create an install profile that will allow every new install I do to have my "default" modules and things set up.
DD
Install routine
Let's call it my installation routine. I actually have a video that I recorded explaining just that... what my routine is when I do a Drupal installation. I should have it up and on the site in the middle of September (It needs a little editing).
Drupal Dude
thx!
Thanks for making these videos! They are really helpful.
What I dont understand yet is the difference between page and story. But I'm looking forward to find some helpful video about this topic.
Drupal Videos High Quality
Hi!
Congratulations for your job! It's great!
Can you upload your screencast on Stage6.divx.com? In this website you can publish videos with divx codec.
Thanks!
High Quality Videos
Finally i can get to this page :)
Firstly, Dan, Congrats and Thank You for doing such wonderful job.
I agree with the guy above. A higher quality video would be great.
Advance thanx for that
Drupal Videos High Quality
I've been thinking about different ways to provide high quality videos. My first idea was QuickTime, as I've done this before on other sites and it works well. Also, the videos are produced using iMovie and/or Final Cut Pro. But I have a few Windows friends that do not like QuickTime, so I am investigating other options.
I will look into Stage6.divx.com. Thanks for the suggestion!
Drupal Dude