1. Drupal Corporate Brochurein 45 Minutes

• • Pratt Web Services

2. Drupal Dec 2000 3. Drupal Sept 2001 4.

Managers/Owners

• Easy

• Flexible

• Stable

• Modular

Developers

• To stimulate a discussion about the basics of Drupal.

5. Drupal Drool

http://www.fastcompany.com/

http://www.herron.iupui.edu/

http://michaelbuble.com/

http://diamond.businessobjects.com/

http://purcellmountainlodge.com

IBM, Sony BMG, AOL...

http://sandbox.anguspratt.com

6.

Planning

Installing

Configuring

Best Practices

7. Front Page Products News Contact Us 8. Planning Functionality

Rich Text Editor

Spam Control

Search Engine Friendly

Google Analytics

Image Management

Administration Menu

Update Status

9. Web Hosting

PHP4 (4.3.5 or greater) or PHP5

MySQL, version 4.1or greater

Web Server - Apache preferred

• Windows IIS possible

Apache 'mod_rewrite' extension for clean urls

Other little gotchas (Register_Globals) Check Drupal documentation

10. Installing

FTP

Shell / SSH / Command line

• wget

• tar -xvzf

DATABASE

• Database name

• User and Password

• 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

• 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

Create the first user

Go to admin page handle errors

Site configuration - file system

Enable clean URLs

Enable modules

Create roles

Create second user use it

14. Add Content

Stuff

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"

3. Under "Page"

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

4. Under "Block"

1. check "Provide Block"

2. Under View Type", select "List View"

3. Under "Title", enter "Recent News"

4. Under "Nodes per Block:", enter "5"

18. News 4

5. Under "Fields"

1. Under "Add Field" select "Node: Title" and click "Add Field" and leave the default options unchanged

19. News 5

6. Under "Filters":

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

Don't Hack Core!

Accounts and Roles

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