45 Minute Drupal Site

Drupal Corporate Brochure in 45 Minutes
Pratt Web Services

Drupal Dec 2000

Drupal Sept 2001

Managers/Owners
Easy
Flexible
Stable
Modular
Developers
To stimulate a discussion about the basics of Drupal.

Drupal Drool
http://www.fastcompany.com/
http://www.herron.iupui.edu/
http://michaelbuble.com/
http://diamond.businessobjects.com/
http://purcellmountainlodge.com
IBM, Sony BMG, AOL...
http://sandbox.anguspratt.com

Planning
Installing
Configuring
Best Practices

Front Page Products News Contact Us

Planning Functionality
Rich Text Editor
Spam Control
Search Engine Friendly
Google Analytics
Image Management
Administration Menu
Update Status

Web Hosting
PHP4 (4.3.5 or greater) or PHP5
MySQL, version 4.1or greater
Web Server - Apache preferred
Windows IIS possible
Apache 'mod_rewrite' extension for clean urls
Other little gotchas (Register_Globals) Check Drupal documentation

Installing
FTP
Shell / SSH / Command line
wget
tar -xvzf
DATABASE
Database name
User and Password
Host (uses localhost by default)

Finding Modules
Spam control - http://drupal.org/project/akismet
Google Analytics - http://drupal.org/project/google_analytics
Pathauto - http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
requires Token - http://drupal.org/project/token
Update module - http://drupal.org/project/update_status

TinyMCE - http://drupal.org/project/tinyMCE
use auto Configuration http://drupal.org/project/tinymce_autoconf
Images - http://drupal.org/project/image
Image Assist - http://drupal.org/project/img_assist
Administration menu - http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu

Site Configuration
Create the first user
Go to admin page – handle errors
Site configuration - file system
Enable clean URLs
Enable modules
Create roles
Create second user – use it

Add Content
Stuff

Creating News
1. Create a vocabulary (administer»categories»add vocabulary tab) called "News" with "story" checked under "Types:", "Hierarchy:", set to "Disabled", "Multiple select" unchecked and "Required" checked
2. Create terms (administer»categories»add terms) under this "News" Vocabulary as follows: "News", "Media Releases" and "Events"

News 2
1. Administer»Views»Add tab
2. Under "Name", enter "recent_stories"
3. Under "Page"
1. Check "Provide Page View
2. Under "URL" enter "news"
3. Under "View Type:" select "Teaser List"
4. Under "Title:" enter "Recent News"

News 3
4. Under "Block"
1. check "Provide Block"
2. Under View Type", select "List View"
3. Under "Title", enter "Recent News"
4. Under "Nodes per Block:", enter "5"

News 4
5. Under "Fields"
1. Under "Add Field" select "Node: Title" and click "Add Field" and leave the default options unchanged

News 5
6. Under "Filters":
1. Under "Add Filter" select "Node: Published" and click "Add Filter" and leave the default options unchanged
2. Under "Add Filter" select "Node: Type" and click "Add Filter" and change "Value" to "Story" by clicking on "Story"

News 6
7. Under "Sort Criteria:"
1. Under "Add criteria" select "Node: Updated Time" and click "Add Criteria"
2. Select "Descending" under "Order" to show the list of News items sorted reverse chronologically by time.

Best Practices
Don't Hack Core!
Accounts and Roles
Plan for the future (upgrades)
Back up both the database and the files
Use sites/all/modules and sites/all/themes
Avoid spaces in any directory name

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by Angus Pratt on Apr 26, 2008

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