CMS 101 DIY Website in Minutes using Drupal

DIY Website in Minutes using Drupal

Some Useful Sites Learn Drupal: drupal.org drupalsites.net lullabot.com drupaldojo.com Drupal Video Drupal demo See Drupal in action: ubuntu.com shizzville.com fergusonphotography.com urlgreyhot.com terminus1525.ca soundsnap.com

Learn Drupal:

drupal.org

drupalsites.net

lullabot.com

drupaldojo.com

Drupal Video

Drupal demo

See Drupal in action:

ubuntu.com

shizzville.com

fergusonphotography.com

urlgreyhot.com

terminus1525.ca

soundsnap.com

Installation Requirements Apache(1.3 or 2) or IIS PHP 4.3.3 or Higher MySQL 4.1 or 5.0 PostgreSQL 7.3 or newer Nice to have Mod-rewrite access

Apache(1.3 or 2) or IIS

PHP 4.3.3 or Higher

MySQL 4.1 or 5.0

PostgreSQL 7.3 or newer

Nice to have

Mod-rewrite access

Setup Steps Upload package to server Create db Hit /install.php, and complete the wizard with db user/pass/host/name Create first user Install NiceMenu or DHTML Menus Create first ‘dummy’ piece of content Install Modules Add Items to ‘Primary Links’ Menu Create ‘administrator’ role (so you can have more than one admin, if needed), and grant all privileges to this role. Install a cool theme. Create a Contact form using the Webform Module Start Creating Content

Upload package to server

Create db

Hit /install.php, and complete the wizard with db user/pass/host/name

Create first user

Install NiceMenu or DHTML Menus

Create first ‘dummy’ piece of content

Install Modules

Add Items to ‘Primary Links’ Menu

Create ‘administrator’ role (so you can have more than one admin, if needed), and grant all privileges to this role.

Install a cool theme.

Create a Contact form using the Webform Module

Start Creating Content

Top 10 Contributed Modules NiceMenus Creates nice, dropdown menus with css Pathauto/Path Creates user and search engine-friendly urls, automatically Page Title Allows you to define custom page titles. Meta Tags Allows you to define a meta description and keyword tag for each piece of content Webform Allows you to create contact forms, or any other web form you could imagine, will store to DB, send email or both. CCK Allows you to define custom content types. This is super powerful and very compex Views A Sophisitcated querying tool that shows nodes based on myriad variables. Category Allows Drupal to be set up similarly to Joomla, with a defined, heirachical taxonomy Google Analytics Hooks up analytics to your site(GA account required) Front Page Makes your front page look different than the rest of the site ex. actualmetrics.com

NiceMenus

Creates nice, dropdown menus with css

Pathauto/Path

Creates user and search engine-friendly urls, automatically

Page Title

Allows you to define custom page titles.

Meta Tags

Allows you to define a meta description and keyword tag for each piece of content

Webform

Allows you to create contact forms, or any other web form you could imagine, will store to DB, send email or both.

CCK

Allows you to define custom content types. This is super powerful and very compex

Views

A Sophisitcated querying tool that shows nodes based on myriad variables.

Category

Allows Drupal to be set up similarly to Joomla, with a defined, heirachical taxonomy

Google Analytics

Hooks up analytics to your site(GA account required)

Front Page

Makes your front page look different than the rest of the site ex. actualmetrics.com