rotary international: hello drupal
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Kevin C. Krupp
Hello, Drupal!Overview of your new website CMS
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Overview
1. What is Drupal?
2. Why use a CMS? What are its benefits?
3. Who uses Drupal?
4. The pieces that make up Drupal
5. Drupal Demo
6. Questions
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Benefits of Drupal
● No licensing fees● Highly Flexible● Large Community Support● Well documented● Secure!● Allows one to easily publish
web content● Fine-grained control of user
access and permissions
Web Design: What a CMS doesLayout, Look, and Feel stay consistent, and you create the content and decide where you need it.
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Web Design: What a CMS doesLets you control what a user sees
● Anonymous User
● Subscriber User
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Who is Using Drupal?
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What are nodes? (an illustration)
Content
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Types of nodes?
Content Types
ACTION FIGURE
STUFFEDTOY
KID'S DECOR
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Organizing nodes
Taxonomy Vocabularies and Terms
ANIMALS PEOPLE ALIENS
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Organizing nodes differently
Taxonomy Vocabularies and Terms
GREEN PINK BROWN
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Drupal Core Contrib Modules
Add a Shopping Cart (UberCart)
Display a list of content with X criteria. (Views)
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Change the cost of a product for users with role X. (price per role)+
Allow users to login using their email address. (Email Login)+
Allow access only if user is from a specific IP address. (restrict by ip)+
Create and Edit Content
Taxonomy
Blocks
Menu
Permissions
plus many others ...
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Important Modules: BlocksDisplays a specific piece of content and helps you place it on your page.
DRUPAL CORE MODULE
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Important Modules: MenusAllows you to create menus to let your user navigate your site.
Some menus can be displayed as blocks.
DRUPAL CORE MODULE
Important Modules: ViewsCreates and displays lists of content, taxonomy terms, and many others.
Can be viewed as its own page, a block, or nested within a panel.
CONTRIBUTED MODULE
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Important Modules: PanelsAllows you to create more complex page layouts.
Can contain blocks, views, and even individual nodes.
CONTRIBUTED MODULE
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