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Building a site in Drupal
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- 1. Drupal Corporate Brochurein 45 Minutes
2. Drupal Dec 2000 3. Drupal Sept 2001 4.
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- To stimulate a discussion about the basics of Drupal.
5. Drupal Drool
- http://www.fastcompany.com/
- http://www.herron.iupui.edu/
- http://diamond.businessobjects.com/
- http://purcellmountainlodge.com
- http://sandbox.anguspratt.com
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7. Front Page Products News Contact Us 8. Planning
Functionality
9. Web Hosting
- PHP4 (4.3.5 or greater) or PHP5
- MySQL, version 4.1or greater
- Web Server - Apache preferred
- Apache 'mod_rewrite' extension for clean urls
- Other little gotchas (Register_Globals) Check Drupal
documentation
10. Installing
- Shell / SSH / Command line
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- Host (uses localhost by default)
11. 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
12.
- TinyMCE -http://drupal.org/project/tinyMCE
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- use auto
Configurationhttp://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
13. Site Configuration
- Go to admin page handle errors
- Site configuration - file system
- Create second user use it
14. Add Content
15. Creating News
- 1. Create a vocabulary (administercategoriesadd vocabulary tab)
called "News" with "story" checked under "Types:", "Hierarchy:",
set to "Disabled", "Multiple select" unchecked and "Required"
checked
- 2. Create terms (administercategoriesadd terms) under this
"News" Vocabulary as follows: "News", "Media Releases" and
"Events"
16. News 2
- 1. AdministerViewsAdd tab
- 2. Under "Name", enter "recent_stories"
- 1. Check "Provide Page View
- 2. Under "URL" enter "news"
- 3. Under "View Type:" select "Teaser List"
- 4. Under "Title:" enter "Recent News"
17. News 3
- 2. Under View Type", select "List View"
- 3. Under "Title", enter "Recent News"
- 4. Under "Nodes per Block:", enter "5"
18. News 4
- 1. Under "Add Field" select "Node: Title" and click "Add Field"
and leave the default options unchanged
19. News 5
- 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"
20. 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.
21. Best Practices
- 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
22. Get Involved in the Community