Drupal Basics an introduction to Drupal This introductory session - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Drupal Basics an introduction to Drupal This introductory session will get the Drupal juices flowing, and help give a broad overview of Drupal jargon, Drupal Architecture & the Drupal Community... May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
an introduction to Drupal
This introductory session will get the Drupal juices flowing, and help give a broad overview of Drupal jargon, Drupal Architecture & the Drupal Community...
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
This introductory session will get the Drupal juices flowing, and help give a broad overview of Drupal jargon, Drupal Architecture & the Drupal Community...
Joshua Brauer Kent Gale Robert Douglass Brenda Boggs Kenny Silanskas Heather James Michael Haag Peter Bull Collin Waid Chris Rutter Jeffrey McGuire
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/getting-started-drupalcon
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
Drupal is full of many terms you may not be familiar with. This section will overview many of the commonly used Drupal terms you should know.
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
Required components of Drupal that give it it's base functionality
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
At the time of this presentation, the most widely used, latest stable version of the Drupal system. Currently massive sites like whitehouse.gov and amnesty.org are using Drupal 6 to power their websites.
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
At the time of this presentation, the pre-release version of the next generation of Drupal. Each major release brings new, more powerful ways to accomplish anything in Drupal. Despite the alpha state of the Drupal 7 system, many developers and major projects are already using it, including examiner.com and drupalgardens.com, an Acquia project.
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
Basic content building blocks in drupal, has a title has an author has metadata not all nodes are the same (content types) basic types included, page, story
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Allows you to add custom fields Custom content types
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A visual query builder to render content from the Drupal database Allows you to display lists or tables of content provides filters provides sorting provides various display styles provides and advanced API
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Referred to as a "skin" or "skinning" in some other systems Defines your sites visual display many contributed (free) themes premium themes as well Defines regions where content appears
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Predefined zones on your website, defined by the theme that determine where content may be placed. Examples of Regions
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Small pieces of content to be placed throughout your site Can be defined by custom or contributed modules to display specific data as it relates to your site/content Can be created with simple, custom text and/or HTML as well through the block manager.
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Unlike nodes, Blocks are NOT associated with an author and do not have items like a menu item associated with it, or a custom path, etc. Placed in any region on your site as defined by the theme & presentation layer.
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Provide navigation throughout your site's content Can be structured in a flat or hierarchical manner, and themed to be horizontal, vertical, dropdowns, etc.
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Ability to categorize your content based on vocabularies and terms Structured Vocabularies Free Tagging
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Contributed code by the community to extend site functionality Can include completely new functionality Can enhance existing functionality using the API that Drupal provides
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allows you to configure what people can do/see
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API that allow modules to interact with the core and extend Drupal in a good way
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Ability to schedule or automate tasks on your website
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An anonymous user is a user that is not logged into the site, and will usually have limited (if any) permissions beyond viewing basic content.
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An authenticated user is a user that has an account on the Drupal website and is logged in. They may also have multiple roles assigned to it that allow various permissions site-wide.
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NEVER, NEVER modify core files Frequent security updates will be difficult if not impossible to apply if your modify core Drupal files
A real Drupal user would never harm a kitten intentionally!!
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
Drupal combined with popular contributed modules allows the ability to reuse content in a variety of ways, and not have to duplicate content/efforts
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Powerful Ecommerce Capabilities
Drupal 6 - Ubercart - http://ubercart.org Drupal 7 - Drupal Commerce http://drupalcommerce.org & Ubercart
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Through theme system, HTML generation, and Contrib modules Ability to structure output based on your SEO tactics Contributed Modules
Avoiding Duplicate content
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your site to ANY language
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which is what IS required by Drupal
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why Drupal IS Drupal
There is nothing more remarkable than discovering the Drupal community for the first time. Seeing the outpouring of knowledge, support, advice and tutelage from a passionate community of developers, designers, marketers, and general Drupal enthusiasts. - Jake Strawn
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Drupal is... a 30-40 person “conference” in 2005 Antwerp, Belgium - 2005
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Drupal is... a 1500 person conference 4 years later DrupalCon DC - 2009
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DrupalCon Paris - 2009
jake michelle
Druplicon
Everyone has a first DrupalCon... that you never forget...
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Drupal is... a conference that doubles in attendance in just one year between DC and SF DrupalCon SF - 2010
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Druplicons are kid friendly...
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Drupal is.... hearing the State of Drupal Keynote Dries - DrupalCon SF - State of Drupal
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Drupal is... A whiteboard with YOUR ideas..
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Drupal is... a small room of enthusiastic designers, developers, marketers and business types... LIKE YOU!!
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handbooks http://drupal.org/handbook Provides module documentation, best practices, and general information on drupal core and contributed modules & themes
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project pages Drupal Core - http://drupal.org/project/Drupal Modules - http://drupal.org/project/modules Themes - http://drupal.org/project/themes
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issue queues Drupal core - http://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal Contributed modules - found through their project page http://drupal.org/project/issues/project_name
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local meetups (geographical groups) New Hampshire: http://groups.drupal.org/new-hampshire Boston: http://groups.drupal.org/boston
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Interest focused groups Module Specific Groups
Views CCK
Theory & Task Specific Groups
Performance Tuning SEO Theming
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IRC (Internet Relay Chat) irc.freenode.net #drupal many other more specific ones - http://drupal.org/irc/channels
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DrupalCamps are smaller, regional gatherings of drupal professionals Drupal Design Camp Boston - June 19th & 20 - MIT Stata Center http://boston2010.design4drupal.org/
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DrupalCon is a twice yearly international event of a large scale featuring the best of the best in the Drupal industry DrupalCon SF - 3,000 Attendees http://sf2010.drupal.org - Watch session screencasts DrupalCon Copenhagen - August 22-26, 2010 - Copenhagen, Denmark http://cph2010.drupal.org/ DrupalCon Chicago - March 8-10, 2011 http://chicago2011.drupal.org/
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May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
The Drupal community is a social one, focused on helping and expanding our community, and Drupalers really enjoy after parties too!
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/getting-started-drupalcon
http://vidlicious.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-drupal-video-by-laura-scott.html
May 21st, 2010 - SNHU, Manchester, NH
an introduction to Drupal
Here’s to wishing you all a great time in learning at DrupalCampNH, and welcome to the Drupal Community, future Drupal rockstars!!!