6. What is Drupal
Less coding, more configuration
(The Drupal way)
Adding a image gallery to a
blog, live example.
Questions
7. Drupal
Open Source CMS distributed under the GPL
First released in 2001
Founder Dries Buytaert, Belgium
Great community
Code and API will change, data is sacred
Clean and solid API
Many small building blocks for flexibility
8. The Drupal way
Less code, more configuration
Only small snippets of ”glue” code and
extensions to other modules
Make any custom modules in to general
implementation and release them on d.o.
Build the theme on a good base theme
Follow Drupal Coding Standard
9. Benifits
Quick development of complex web sites
Easy to upgrade to new Drupal versions
Easy to expand the web site
Reusable solutions
Secure solutions
10. Requirements
Must take the time to really learn Drupal
and a number of important modules.
Always do things the right why, no quick and
ugly shortcuts.
Use time now to save it tenfold in the
future.
Follow Drupal Coding Standard