Slides used in the Acquia "Welcome to Drupal! What now?" webinar, January 26, 2012. A recording of the webinar will be available at http://www.acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars. NOTE: Olav Schettler's Twitter handle is @oschettler. The address on the slide posted here is incorrect! Here are some of the links to resources mentioned in the webinar: GETTING STARTED - http://www.acquia.com - http://drupal.org - http://drupal.org/download - http://acquia.com/downloads - http://drupaldistrowatch.com - http://drupalgardens.com HOW DRUPAL WORKS - http://drupal.org/developing/modules - http://drupal.org/documentation/theme RESOURCES - http://api.drupal.org - http://groups.drupal.org - http://localize.drupal.org - http://association.drupal.org - http://drupal.org/irc/channels TRAINING - http://training.acquia.com - http://drupalize.me - http://buildamodule.com - http://mustardseedmedia.com - http://nodeone.se/en BOOKS - http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Drupal-Development-Todd-Tomlinson/dp/1430228385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1327652072&sr=8-1 - http://www.amazon.com/Front-End-Drupal-Designing-Scripting/dp/0137136692/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327652106&sr=1-1 - http://www.amazon.com/Using-Drupal-Angela-Byron/dp/0596515804/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327652106&sr=1-2 - http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Guide-Drupal-Apress/dp/1430231351/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1327652145&sr=1-1 - and many more ... http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=drupal&x=0&y=0

1. Welcome to Drupal! What now?
Olav Schettler, Client Adviser
Andrew Melck, Solutions Architect
Je rey A. “jam” McGuire, Community A airs Manager
Acquia

2. Housekeeping
Slides and recording
• posted in next 48 hours
• http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars
Submit questions
• Q&A Tab in WebEx
Twitter
• @acquia
Hashtags
• #acquia #drupal
http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars

3. Questions
For$more$information$visit:$$http://www.acquia.com
Contact$us: sales@acquia.com or 888.9.ACQUIA
Follow$us:$@acquia
Olav: olav.schettler@acquia.com, Twitter: @olav.schettler
Andrew: andrew-melck@acquia.com, Twitter: @drewmelck
Je rey: jam@acquia.com, Twitter: @horncologne
Today’s:webinar:recording:will:be:posted:to:
http://acquia.com/resources/recorded_webinars

4. About Drupal

10. “Open source is an
intellectual-property
destroyer… I can't imagine
something that could be
worse than this for the
software business and the
intellectual-property
business.”
- Jim Allchin, Microsoft - 2001

11. Drupal today
2% of the web
11,431+ developers
11,819+ modules
300,000+ downloads/month
1.5M unique visitors/month
55 supported languages
FREE

12. “We don't pick on
Microsoft any more, it's
like kicking a puppy."
- Jim Zemlin, Executive Director,
The Linux Foundation.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13825348@N03/2300963596/sizes/z/in/photostream/

13. Drupal is freedom
1. Freedom to run the program
2. Freedom to study the program
3. Freedom to modify the program
4. Freedom to re-distribute the
program

14. Drupal is community

15. Drupal is innovation
Open Source
Collaboration
Community
Innovation

16. Get Started

17. I like it! Now what?
I can haz
Drupal?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/golf_pictures/2187242989/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_and_selena/505733774/

18. http://drupal.org/download

19. http://acquia.com/downloads

20. http://drupaldistrowatch.com/

21. http://drupalgardens.com

22. Sitebuilding in Drupal

23. Site building example
Building a Drupal site is content first
1 Content types
2 Prototype
Design
3 Content entry
4 Theming
5 Launch

24. The Drupal Gardens Jumpstart

25. Choose a template

26. Configure your site

27. Your new site

28. Enter your content

29. Export your site
You get everything:
• code
• database
• images/media
• content

30. Install & Develop

31. Complete the site
For example, translate interface and content

32. Choose your design

33. Deploy your site
Acquia Dev Cloud, Managed Cloud
or any Drupal hosting

34. How Drupal Works

35. How Drupal works - stack
Drupal is a PHP application
Drupal runs best on the standard LAMP stack:
PHP on the application layer P
MySQL on the Database layer M
Apache on the web server layer A
Linux on the OS layer L

36. How Drupal works - OS options
Drupal also runs on Windows ...and Mac.
Installers are available to make the job of getting up and
running easy:
http://www.acquia.com/downloads

37. How Drupal works - tech options
Drupal can also run with other databases including:
•MS SQL Server
•MariaDB
•SQLite
•MongoDB
And webservers including:
•IIS
•Nginx

38. How Drupal works - core & contrib
Within the PHP application, Drupal comprises two sets of
modules:
Required: Block, Field, Field SQL
storage, File, Filter, Image, Menu,
core Node, Options, Path, Search,
System, Taxonomy, Text, User
Popular modules:Views,
Content Construction Kit
contrib (CCK), Pathauto, ctools,
Admin menu, Workbench

39. How Drupal works - hook system
Contrib modules provide additional functionality by altering
or extending the core's functionality using hooks.
The hook system modifies
core inputs to and outputs from
core.
Find out more:
contrib http://drupal.org/developing/
modules

40. How Drupal works - theming layer
The look and feel of Drupal sites is governed by the theming
layer. This transforms the user interface using:
• Template files to define site and page structure using PHP.
• CSS stylesheets to add the final touches to your site.

41. How Drupal works - theming layer
Find out more:
http://drupal.org/documentation/theme

42. Drupal’s Community & Resources
Local
Meetups
Reg ional
groups
rest-b ased
Inte
groups

43. drupal.org
api.drupal.org
groups.drupal.org
localize.drupal.org
association.drupal.org

44. IRC (Freenode)
#drupal
#drupalcon
#drupal-support
http://drupal.org/irc/channels

45. Drupal Camps
Drupal Cons
Code Sprints
Summits
Meetups

46. Training
•http://training.acquia.com
•http://drupalize.me / Lullabot
•http://buildamodule.com
•http://mustardseedmedia.com
•http://nodeone.se/en
• ... and more!

47. Books
•Pro Drupal 7 Development
•Drupal 7 the essentials
•Cracking Drupal
•Front End Drupal
•Drupal 7 Module Development
•The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7
•Using Drupal
•Beginning Drupal 7
•Drupal 7 Visual Quickstart Guide
•Drupal 7 Bible
• ... and more!

48. Come for the code, stay for the community.