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    Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) toolkit that allows users to manage and publish content on websites. It is flexible and powerful but also complex, requiring technical skills to customize. Drupal uses modules to add functionality beyond core features. Common modules allow features like searching, user profiles, and taxonomy (categorizing content). Content in Drupal is organized into nodes, which are individual pieces like articles or images that can be published, arranged on pages using blocks, and categorized with taxonomy terms. Drupal has a large online community that provides free themes, modules, documentation, and support.

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    Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) toolkit that allows users to manage and publish content on websites. It is flexible and powerful but also complex, requiring technical skills to customize. Drupal uses modules to add functionality beyond core features. Common modules allow features like searching, user profiles, and taxonomy (categorizing content). Content in Drupal is organized into nodes, which are individual pieces like articles or images that can be published, arranged on pages using blocks, and categorized with taxonomy terms. Drupal has a large online community that provides free themes, modules, documentation, and support.

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    Drupal is an open source content management system (CMS) toolkit that allows users to manage and publish content on websites. It is flexible and powerful but also complex, requiring technical skills to customize. Drupal uses modules to add functionality beyond core features. Common modules allow features like searching, user profiles, and taxonomy (categorizing content). Content in Drupal is organized into nodes, which are individual pieces like articles or images that can be published, arranged on pages using blocks, and categorized with taxonomy terms. Drupal has a large online community that provides free themes, modules, documentation, and support.

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    Drupal Module Development

    Open Source CMS

    Content Management Systems manage website (or intranet) content Open Source Content Management Systems have become one of the real open source success stories The three most popular open source CMS in the nonprofit sector are:

    Joomla Drupal Plone

    Content Management System (CMS)



    Effective websites have regularly updated content Multiple sections are updated Updating should be easy (word processing) Updating by various authorized users

    Content Management Systems allow: Multiple staff updaters Familiar interface Web page layout and design controls Management of text, audio and video content Ability to rank or weigh content Constituent interaction

    Effective Web Presence


    = Multiple Content Sections Regularly Updated

    Stories News Featured Video eNews

    Events

    Fundraising

    Seasonal Appeals

    Documents

    Content Management System (CMS)


    Open Source Content Management Systems:

    Drupal Plone Wordpress Joomla

    Tool Kit

    Product

    FOSS CMS Strengths & Challenges


    All are FOSS CMS tools, require technical help to use Drupal - A toolkit with many powerful, flexible tools
    Strength - Online communities, web-based applications Challenge - Flexibility = Complexity

    Plone - A single tool


    Strength - User Friendly default installation Challenge - Less flexibility, less potential

    Mambo, Joomla - A single tool


    Strength - Usable/Good design out of the box Challenge - Web-based applications difficult to do

    Drupal

    Drupal is an open source CMS based on PHP and MySQL It can be installed and run on any server with Apache, MySQL and PHP (including Linux/UNIX, Windows and Macintosh) It also runs on PostgreSQL (another open source Database system) It has an extremely active developer community, with lots of resources available It has become arguably the most popular open source CMS for nonprofits

    Drupal, cont.

    Drupal is more developer friendly than it is user friendly (for site building, primarily) This makes it extremely flexible and powerful It makes it possible for developers to create feature rich sites It makes it very difficult for nonprofits to build websites on Drupal on their own (unless they have staff who know it or can learn it.) However, organizations can maintain Drupal sites quite well once trained

    Brief History of Drupal

    It was created originally as a bulletin board system, and open sourced in 2001 It has had broad adoption since version 4 It is now on version 6.6 (point upgrades happen every few months) Version 5.x is also maintained (now at 5.12) Many sites are still built with Drupal 5 because some modules haven't caught up.

    Support Forum - Drupal

    Drupal
    Open Source Content Management System

    Community Collaboration Tools


    Installed on Organizations Computer Accessed through Internet Interface Community Supported International Translations Powering 75,000+ sites in 2006

    Drupal
    Has rules, constraints and processes Can be modified in a variety of ways Contains core functions: Drupal Core
    Functionality expanded through Modules

    Takes time to understand, test and configure


    Customization requires PHP programmer

    Community helps you configure and support

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Taiwanese government blog

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Websites using Drupal

    Drupal Vocabulary - Modules & Users


    Drupal Core
    The base installation of Drupal, includes some modules, themes and other add-ons Modules Files that add functionality to Drupal, i.e., A Search module adds the function of search to a website Themes Designs that give the sites a certain look. Modules give themes control of how things look. User A person who is registered on the Drupal website. Has user name, ID, password and email address Roles How users are grouped by permissions. Allows posting of content. Defaults are authenticated or anonymous.

    Modules

    Modules available online by name, category, date

    Module Example

    Theme Examples

    Drupal Vocabulary - Nodes


    Node:
    A piece of content. Can be a picture, blog, etc. anything in Drupals create content menu

    Blocks:
    Places to put content,i.e., sidebar, footer. Modules can add blocks or can be added manually - Check for blocks when adding modules

    Nodes and Blocks


    Pieces of content = nodes
    & Search

    Can be a picture, a block of text, a blog, audio, video, etc. Navigation Top Story:
    75th Anniversary

    Content is placed

    onto page sections, Nodes are placed into Blocks

    Latest Publication

    Youth Outreach

    Program Information

    Calendar of Events

    Current News Headlines

    Drupal CMS Concepts


    Nodes are placed into blocks
    Navigation & Search Top Story: 75th Anniversary Latest Publication Youth Outreach Program Information Calendar of Events Current News

    Node attributes - states


    You can turn on or off certain node attributes: Published
    Published, Moderated, Promoted, Sticky, Revisions

    on - item is visible to authorized users off - item visible only to administrators Items are sorted by stickiness, then by date, affects their weight and where they are listed - July newsletter Program Information - June newsletter - May newsletter Calendar of Events

    Sticky

    Taxonomy
    A way to categorize content Example:
    Categories contain user/admin-defined vocabulary People who post stories on your website about surfing could categorize their posts:
    - Surfing Spot Info - Environmental Concerns - Equipment Related - Style and Moves (Best Places/Times) (Erosion, Water Quality) (Boards, Suits, etc.) (Handstands, Dogs)

    Post can then be sorted and searched by categories

    Taxonomy and Navigation


    Advanced - Interacts with navigation With advanced version of navigation, can expose taxonomy as navigation blocks

    Surfing Spot Info Environmental Concerns Equipment Related Style and Moves

    Taxonomy

    Profiles - Overview
    Provide ways of presenting data and data fields Using existing data fields and data, profiles are built to
    meet specific business process needs for data entry, data viewing or searching for data. Examples: - User Registration - Client Intake Data Entry - Client Search - Client History Summary - Volunteer Skills Synopsis - Conference Presenter Summary

    Summary
    Drupal is a powerful CMS toolkit Open Source Large Community Free Modules and Themes

    Drupal Module Development

    ICT Center
    We are making IT happen

    Integrity

    Commitment

    Teamwork

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