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    Basic Drupal: How to create, administer and maintain a Drupal Site
    Basic Drupal: How to create, administer and maintain a Drupal Site
    Basic Drupal: How to create, administer and maintain a Drupal Site
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    Basic Drupal: How to create, administer and maintain a Drupal Site

    By Timi Ogunjobi

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    A short course on how to install , administer and maintain a Drupal web site . Content: Lesson 1 Introduction to Drupal ; Lesson 2 Basic Concepts and Features ; Lesson 3 Installing Drupal ; Lesson 4 Adding, classifying and viewing content ; Lesson 5 Administration overview ; Lesson 6 Basic back end administration ; Lesson 7 Drupal Taxonomy ; Lesson 8 Moving a static site to Drupal; Lesson 9 Backing up and Migrating ; Lesson 10 Performance and security
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherxceedia publishing
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9783955775605
    Basic Drupal: How to create, administer and maintain a Drupal Site

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      Basic Drupal - Timi Ogunjobi

      BASIC DRUPAL COURSE

      By

      Timi Ogunjobi

      Drupal Author and Trainer

      [email protected]

      ISBN: 978-1-291-52911-1

      © 2013 Timi Ogunjobi

      Contents

      SUMMARIES

      1. INTRODUCTION TO DRUPAL

      2. BASIC CONCEPTS AND FEATURES

      3. INSTALLING DRUPAL

      4. ADDING, CLASSIFYING AND VIEWING CONTENT

      5. ADMINISTRATION OVERVIEW

      6. BASIC BACK END ADMINISTRATION

      7. DRUPAL TAXONOMY

      8. MOVING A STATIC SITE TO DRUPAL

      9. BACKING UP AND MOVING DRUPAL

      10. PERFORMANCE AND SECURITY

      SUMMARIES

      Lesson 1 Introduction to Drupal

      This introductory lesson is to get the new user acquainted with Drupal  , its main users and infrastructural requirements . Following are the highlights:

      What Drupal is and how it is being used.

      What do you need to run Drupal

      What version of Drupal is right for your specific use.

      Lesson 2 Basic Concepts and Features

      This lesson shows how Drupal works; its major components and features. It introduces to the basic content types available in Drupal and suggests how to create your own content type.

      Lesson 3 Installing Drupal

      In this lesson the new user will learn how to install Drupal in several environments and by using several methods. We will learn how to download the installation either direct from the Drupal repository, or by SSH, CVS and Git. We will learn how to install either on a local development environment or on a live server.

      Lesson 4 Adding, classifying and viewing content

      Here we will learn how to create new content on a Drupal site; how to edit the content and how to view them . This lesson will also show how to link created content to a Drupal menu system.

      Lesson 5 Administration overview

      This lesson takes us on an introductory working tour of the administrative Drupal back end. We learn how to administer content, appearance, users, and modules. We also learn how to conduct simple configurations as well as read site reports.

      Lesson 6 Basic back end administration

      This lesson illustrates and explains some basic housekeeping tasks that an administrator ought to get done after the Drupal site is ready and running.

      Such include altering site information, and site appearance’ as well as managing content, users as well as access.

      Lesson 7 Drupal Taxonomy

      Taxonomy is the practice of classifying things. In Drupal, Taxonomy system is used to describe content. This lesson shows how to create and administer an efficient taxonomy system that will enhance the accessibility of content on a Drupal site.

      Lesson 8 Moving a static site to Drupal

      This lesson shows how to port a site previously created in static HTML into a Drupal framework. ; including how to set up your modules, taxonomies and site content links , and how to copy content.

      Lesson 9 Backing up and Migrating

      This lesson shows how to back up the content of a Drupal site to avoid loss in case of accidents on the site. It also shows how to move the entire site from one server to another, either locally or online.

      Lesson 10 Performance and security

      Security, performance, user interaction, maintenance, quality assurance, are the real issues which a live site will have to contend with on a daily basis. Failure to adequately address them could lead to any imaginable scale of disaster . This lesson shows how to stay on top of these issues.

      1. INTRODUCTION TO DRUPAL

      This introductory lesson is to get you acquainted with Drupal  and its main features . Following are the highlights:

         What Drupal is and how it is being used.

        What version of Drupal to use.

      1.1    What is Drupal?

      Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a web site. Drupal has tens of thousands users worldwide.

      It is a modular content management framework, content management system, web application framework and blogging engine which was originally developed by Dries Buytaert as a bulletin board system. Today, it is used by many high-traffic web sites and is especially popular for building online communities. Drupal is an English transliteration of the Dutch word druppel which means drop , as in, a drop of water".

       Fig 1 . Drupal Logo

      1.2    Who are using Drupal?

      Drupal is used for very many different web applications , and by many of the top ranking companies all over the world.  As a web development tool, Drupal has some basic built-in

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