Intro To Drupal For Museums
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This document provides an overview of using the content management system Drupal to build a museum website. It discusses installing Drupal and configuring users and modules. It also covers building the site structure through themes, blocks, and menus. Additionally, it explains how to create customized content types with fields using the CCK module and link related content. Finally, it demonstrates creating customized views and calendars to display content.
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Intro To Drupal For Museums
- 1. Intro to Drupal for Museums David Henry Missouri History Museum For Museums and the Web 2009
- 2. Goals for the Missouri History Museum website Consistently reflect MHM’s branding Be accessible to nearly all visitors Be easy to use Facilitate creation and updating of content Be accurate and up to date Provide many opportunities for searching and input Enable integration with existing data and content Facilitate interconnections between diverse content
- 3. Overview Part 1: Installation and Configuration Part 2: Site Building Part 3: The Content Construction Kit Part 4: Views
- 4. Part 1: Installation and Configuration Basic install and initial setup Managing users Exercise 1 Managing modules Exercise 2 Finding help online
- 5. Basic Install and Setup Install Any Questions? Site Configuration Overview of configuration tools Error reporting File uploads Performance and caching Site information
- 6. Managing Users Add Users User Settings Tip: Require admin approval Create Roles Create Access Rules Set permissions
- 7. Managing Modules Module Management Interface Core vs. contributed modules Dependencies Selecting modules By version compatibility By development activity Installing modules Best practices: install in sites/all/modules Check permissions Update db
- 8. Installing FCKEditor Module Download FCKeditor and FCKeditor module Install In sites/all/modules Reconfigure Enable in modules administration Set permissions Edit FCKEditor profile
- 9. Part 2: Site Building Managing Themes Exercise 3 Managing Blocks Exercise 4 Managing Menus Exercise 5
- 10. Managing Themes Changing themes Selecting themes Configuring themes Changing colors Change the site logo and site icon Show hide page components Creating your own theme Copy existing theme into sites/all/themes Change name and info file Select and configure from themes admin interface Theme is infinitely customizable
- 11. Managing Blocks Blocks layout Enabling and positioning blocks Configure a block Block specific settings – if any Set rights by role Set visibility by role Create a custom block Enable and position it
- 12. Menus Create a Menu Add menu items Add content to an existing menu Position menu as a block
- 13. Part 3: The Content Construction Kit In drupal, all content starts with a node The CCK enables you to add any number and type of fields to a node The CCK bundle includes several modules for managing content types and fields The Date field module enables managing the complexities of date-based information The Node Reference field module allows you to link related content together
- 14. Content Requirements When a visitor is looking at an exhibit page, he/she should also see related tours, publications, and events. Likewise, when a visitor is On a publication, event, or Tour page, he/she should Be able to see related events. Tour Event Publication Exhibit
- 15. Creating a Content Type Enable relevant modules Create a new type Add fields Configure fields Associating one content type to another with a node reference field Theme the content type using a template
- 16. Part 4: Views Views: custom queries and custom displays Example: List exhibits as upcoming, current, and past The most complicated and the most powerful drupal module Creating a simple view Exercise 7 Creating a calendar and events listing Exercise 8
- 17. Creating a View View types: node, comment, User etc. Navigating the Views interface Selecting and configuring a style Selecting and configuring fields Adding filters Sorting Adding arguments Defining relationships
- 18. Creating an events calendar Using the Date Tools module to create an event content type This also creates a calendar view with multiple displays that can be adapted to meet your needs Adapting the date_browser view to list events by date and by any other criteria
- 19. Wrap Up Drupal for museums – examples: http:// www.mohistory.org http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/ http://www.imamuseum.org/ Please feel free to contact me about using Drupal: David Henry [email_address]
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