This document provides an overview and introduction to the Drupal content management system (CMS). [1] Drupal is an open source CMS that allows users to easily manage and publish web content. [2] It provides features for content authoring, page management, user access control, and more through its modular architecture and extensibility. [3] The document outlines Drupal's key capabilities and benefits, and how to install and get started with the CMS.

1. Drupal CMS www.openkick.com 079 - 4004 3267 10-11 Sep 2011 Workshop at DDIT Nadiad Karmraj Zala Drupal Developer Gloscon Solution Pvt. Ltd.

2. WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE WHAT IS WEB 2.0

3. What’s Common??

4. Growth of Open Source’s Community

5. What is a CMS? USE OF CMS Content Management Page/Section/Menu Management Creating new pages and sections Changing layouts and display of contents on the page Managing Workgroups, Users for Authoring Creating, Approving and Publishing Contents A CMS is a Web Application or Software used for Content Management A CMS can be used to manage content such as Text, Links, Images and Multimedia Resources, etc. CMS is used to manage and publish web contents

6. Why CMS? Need for “Content Management” Eg. School Website – Events/ News/ Articles by students, teachers/ Awards, Recognition Dynamic changes hampers easy transition of “Content” to the website – Only be done through a professional programmer Websites such as Orkut/Facebook/Myspace gives you an ease to organize your “Content” Dynamic websites are the future and a powerful CMS would empower the user to make necessary changes without the need of a programmer or web designer

7. Introduction to Drupal Free software package Modular Content Management Framework Easy-to-use web installer Written in PHP Drupal’s Modular design and well – documented, clean codebase make it easier to use Drupal is often used to build sites that focus on user communities Drupal is open source software, and maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers. Some Big Names: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Sun Microsystems, Warner Brothers Discovery Channel, MTV UK

8. CMS Features Available in Drupal Primarily used for: Content Management Adding/Editing/Removing: Contents such as Text, Images, Hyperlinks, CSS and lots more…. Page/Section/Menu Management Creating new pages and sections Changing layouts and display of contents on the page Managing Workgroups, Users for Authoring Creating, Approving and Publishing Contents And Many more …

9. Key Features of Drupal User Management Content Management Blogging Forums Picture Gallery News Letters Administration and Analysis Community Feature Performance and Scalability Easily pluggable application such as Facebook, Google maps, My Space application etc...

10. Advantage of Drupal Easy to Install and Configure well-balanced and well organized architecture for any needs of information management Flexible to Implement User friendly Admin Management Analysis, Tracking and Statistics for Admin Logging and Reporting for Admin Multilingual Email sending for features such as blog and user registration Modules for a wide range of needs Expandability by third – party modules and themes (a large set of themes) Easy access to help a thoroughly tested platform Syndication and RSS

11. Technical Specifications

12. Drupal – How to Start Requirements – WAMP/LAMP/IIS server Windows/Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP Visit www.drupal.org Go to Download : Drupal 6.0 / 5.0 Unzip Drupal pack & put the unzipped folder in “Web root directory” – Web root directory comes as default in WAMP installation You can download “Modules” – For getting features You can download “Themes” – For changing the look & Feel

13. Terminology Used in Drupal Node: A piece of content. Can be a picture, blog, page, story, post, etc. anything in Drupal’s “create content” menu Blocks: Places to put content, i.e., header, left, sidebar, footer. Default blocks login, who’s online, who’s new, navigation, primary links, syndicate etc. Block can be added manually

14. Node/Page Block

15. Drupal Core The base installation of Drupal, includes some modules, themes and other add-ons Modules Files that add functionality to Drupal, i.e., A “Search” module adds the function of search to a website Themes Designs that give the sites a certain look. Modules give themes control of how things look. User A person can only access admin area after registering user name, ID, password and email address. Roles How users are grouped by permissions. Allows posting of content. Defaults are authenticated or anonymous. Terminology Used in Drupal Modules & Users

17. Drupal Users

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