Introduction to Drupal
1 like993 views
The document provides an overview of Drupal for content creators. It discusses what Drupal is and how it can be used to build various types of websites. It covers basic Drupal terminology like nodes, menus, blocks, modules, and taxonomy. It also provides examples of setting up a simple homepage and menu structure for a new Drupal site.
Introduction to Drupal
- 1. Drupal for Content Creators Rasheed Barnes Tom Deryckere
- 2. About NorthPoint http://www.northps.com http://twitter.com/NPS_Drupal
- 3. You • Name? • Years/days/hours of Drupal experience? • What do you (plan to) do with Drupal? • Expectation on the session?
- 5. Drupal is a CMS and more ...
- 6. What is Drupal? Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website The built-in functionality, combined with thousands of freely available add-on modules. Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL ("GNU General Public License") and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers
- 7. What do people build • Blogs • Content Portals • Shops • Corporate sites • Publishers • Confererence sites • Media sites • Intranets • Government • Social network sites • Company websites • ...
- 8. Examples
- 9. http://www.whitehouse.gov Government
- 11. http://www.drupalcoder.com Bloggers
- 12. http://www.mobiledrupal.com Bloggers
- 13. http://www.amnesty.org/ Non Profit
- 19. ...
- 20. Why Drupal • Open Source • Stable, secure and Flexible platform • Enormous active community • thousands contributed features • ...
- 21. Why Not Drupal • Can be hard to learn • Takes some time
- 22. Who does Drupal?
- 23. 3 type of drupalers • The programmer • The site builder • The content creator
- 24. Content creator • No interfacing with the code • Focussed on getting the message (‘content’) out to the world • Configures Drupal to it needs • Must work within the boundaries provided by Drupal and its modules
- 25. 6 or 7
- 26. Drupal 6 or 7 • Drupal 7 will be released soon (expected end of august) • Huge usability improvements for content creators
- 27. START
- 28. Contents • Start with fresh Drupal install • Go through main configuration pages • Cover basic terminology • Rasheed takes the challenge: “You name it, Rasheed builds it” • (not about installing Drupal)
- 29. Step 1: structure • Add some content • Create homepage • Simple menu structure
- 30. Content in Drupal • Content in Drupal is called a ‘node’ • Different ‘node’ types exist out of the box, and new node types can be created. • e.g.: • A blog post is a node of the type blog • A simple page is a node of the type page • ...
- 31. The Node • A node contains ‘fields’ that can be filled with content • Title • Body • published date (automatic) • publishing state (automatic) • Drupal allow modules and site builders to add fields to a node type (see the CCK module)
- 32. Nodes
- 33. Menu • Drupal has an ‘easy’ to use menu system • ‘out-of-the-box’ • Navigation block • Primary links • Secondary links • Assign pages to menus when you create content
- 34. Look and Feel • Drupal comes with several themes • Many themes are available online • Themes consist of ‘regions’ • ex: header, left, right, content, footer
- 35. Blocks • Blocks are important elements on Drupal site that can be placed in several ‘regions’ • Blocks do not contain the main content, but enriching information or functionality.
- 37. Modules • Drupal functionality can be augmented by using several modules. • Important ones that come with drupal but are not enabled by default: • Blog, contact, path, search
- 38. Blog • Gives you a simple content type that enables you to list all blog posts • RSS feed of your blog
- 39. Comments • Commenting on all nodes
- 40. Path Alias • node/id is not SEO friendly and doesn’t look good
- 41. Taxonomy • Taxonomy = creating categories • e.g.: Blog tags, categories for • Predefined categories versus real time tagging (‘folksonomy’)
- 42. Search • Enables searching content on your Drupal site
- 44. Thank you!
- 45. NorthPoint looks for Drupal experts /** * Implements hook_job_alter */ function northpoint_job_alter(){ northpoint_dial("212-819-1700"); }
- 46. Contact Northpoint infoUS@northps.com www.northps.com New York Office 130 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: 212-819-1700 @twom @nps_drupal