Learn what a Drupal site is and how to navigate through a site. Understand what Drupal terms such as nodes, blocks, permissions and taxonomy mean.

1. A First Look at Drupal
Kathy Hayashi
Christoph Weber

2. Online Content

3. Features of 2010 Sites

4. Actions on Content
POLL
COMMENT SHARE
LINK
CONTENT DISCUSS
INDEX
COLLABORATE TAG
CREATE SURVEY

5. The beauty of CMS

6. What CMS means
No more asking IT or Web
Developers to edit content
No programming knowledge
necessary to create web pages
The right experts are working
on the right parts
In short:
Content and Presentation
are kept separate. •Community Web Sites
•Weblog
•Forums
•Social Networking Sites
•Wiki/Knowledge Base
•Business Web Applications

7. http://buytaert.net/drupal-6-growth

9. Content Management System
Open Source
Community Collaboration Tools
Installed on Organization’s Computer
Accessed through Internet Interface
Community Supported
International Translations
Powers many high profile sites

10. http://www.lullabot.com - Understanding Drupal Video

12. DATABASE RAW TEXT

13. DRUPAL FILTER
DATABASE RAW TEXT

14. WEB PAGE DISPLAY
DRUPAL FILTER
DATABASE RAW TEXT

15. Never worry about
formatting and layout

16. U CH
M
Never worry about
formatting and layout

17. Modules Core
core vs. contrib Core Optional
thousands of contributed modules Contributed
available
Look at usage, comments and last
contributed date
Rule of Thumb:
try to stick to just a few contrib
modules,
maybe 10

18. Themes
define the look and feel of a Drupal site
typography
colors
header graphic
sidebar location, width and appearance
menu location and appearance

19. Themes
define the look and feel of a Drupal site
typography
colors
header graphic
sidebar location, width and appearance
menu location and appearance

20. Categories/Taxonomy/Tags
organize content by keyword (show one list)
automatic blog-style page(s) with teasers per
taxonomy term (click on term on a page)
easily build menus from taxonomy
many modules available to further organize and
index content
Wordcloud from sandcamp.org/sessions

21. Menus

22. Content Types
Page vs. Story

23. Content Construction Kit:
CCK
Add custom fields to content types, e.g.:
more text boxes
radio buttons
email field
image field
address

24. CCK demo
sponsor page at sandcamp.org
final page for result
edit mode to show fields

25. Views are database
queries, configured
without SQL or PHP
coding

26. Sample View

27. Blocks

28. Users
flexible user account
management
user roles with extremely
flexible permissions

29. Review of Terms

30. Questions?
A First Look at Drupal
Kathy Hayashi
Christoph Weber