1. Drupal

2. Content Management System
• Simply put, a CMS is a website you build using
the website itself.
• CMS is a software tool that allows you to
create, edit, and publish content.
• The goal of a CMS is to provide an intuitive
user interface for building and modifying
webpage content. Each CMS also provides a
web publishing tool that allows one or more
users to publish updates live on the Web.

3. History Of Drupal
• Drupal was created by Dries Buytaert in year
2000 by a college student at University in
Begium
• Dries made the software allowing the group of
friends to leave each other notes about the
status of the network, to announce where
they were having dinner, or to share some
noteworthy news items.

4. What is Drupal
• Drupal is a Content Management System that
allows individuals to easy publish, manage and
organize a wide variety of content on a
website.

5. • The software did not have a name until the
day after Dries moved out after graduation
• Dries settled for 'drop.org'. Dorp is the Dutch
word for 'village', which was considered a
fitting name for the small community.

6. • It was only later, in January 2001, that Dries
decided to release the software behind
drop.org as "Drupal." The purpose was to
enable others to use and extend the
experimentation platform so that more
people could explore new paths for
development. The name Drupal, pronounced
"droo-puhl," derives from the English
pronunciation of the Dutch word "druppel,"
which means "drop."

7. Drupal Quick Facts
• Drupal is Free and Open Source
• Drupal is written in a programming language
called PHP
• Drupal Resides on a web server
• Drupal is flexible enough to create something
as simple as small personal blog to something
as complex as a large corporate or political
website.

8. What can Drupal be?
• Blog
• Forum
• Online newspaper, Portal / Directory
• Brocure site, portfolio, flickr like photo drop
• Social community site, job post board
• Video site like youtube
• Project management site
• CRM, ERP, SCM, Wiki
• Shopping cart system
• E-learning, training site
• Dating site
• Anything you can think of…

9. Famous sites using Drupal

14. Why Use Drupal

15. Drupal Will Save you Time
• Quickly add content to and edit your website
in the same time it takes to drink a cup of
coffee.

16. Drupal will save you money
• No need to hire an expensive web designer
everytime you want to update your website,
make changes yourself!

17. Drupal is easy to use
• Once setup, Drupal requires no advanced
technical skills. Adding content to your
website requires no more skill than it takes to
compose and send an email.

18. • Any website whether it be corporate,
community, education or personal can benefit
by using the Drupal platform. Drupal helps tou
managhe your visitor collaboration and
feedback.

19. • Effective Web design is driven by the need to
balance flexibility and simplicity. If a system is
too simple, it can only be used for a single
purpose - but if it is too flexible, it may be too
difficult for new users to learn.

20. • Drupal is like a Lego kit. Skilled developers
have already made the building blocks - in the
form of contributed modules - that you need
to create a site that suits your needs, whether
that is a news site, an online store, a social
network, blog, wiki, or something else
altogether.

21. Why use Drupal over Wordpress?
• Wordpress was designed only to be a blog with some easy add-ons.
• Drupal was designed to be more of a generalist: it’s for making ‘anything’ and is far
more robust.
• Wordpress could be the better choice for blogs since it is better at being a blog
than Drupal. This is something of debate.
• Wordpress is still a sound choice of CMS for SEO and security; so if wordpress
satisfies a simpler project’s requirements then by all means use it- it is easier and
faster to set up than Drupal.
• Wordpress is not designed to be highly scalable to many simultaneous users, nor
does it have flexible roles, permissions, extensible content types, nor does it have
plentiful well-tested, quality add-ons. It has a few and a lot of really poor plugins.

22. What is a UI?
• UI is a user-interface, which is a general term
for the layout of options, widgets and settings
used to configure the system or manage
content.
• ‘Site-building’ activities refer to configuring
settings or managing content through the UI,
such as building navigation menus.

23. Drupal Structure
• Drupal is a database-driven (‘dynamic’)
application. It requires a database.
• Drupal has a core filesystem whose
functionality can be extended using the UI
itself, modules and themes.
• The UI settings are stored in the database.

24. The Drupal Structure
• Modules
• Nodes
• Layout and Region
• Blocks

25. Modules
• Packages of files in a directory that you upload
into drupal’s module space (/sites/all/modules)
• Add functionality to drupal
• ‘Core’ Modules come shipped with drupal
• ‘Contributed’ Modules are downloads from
drupal.org

26. Themes
• Packages of files in a directory that you upload
into drupal’s theme space (/sites/all/themes)
• Themes adjust the site layout and style. Like
‘skinning’ your media player.
• Themes can be easily changed in the UI.

27. Nodes
• A node is the primary form of content in a
drupal site. At a minimum it is a title and a
body, and can be ‘specialized’.
• A ‘page’ and ‘story’ for example are node
types that have a specific node settings.
• A node type is a blueprint for creating
instances of content of a particular type.

28. Nodes
• Not everything in Drupal is a node.
• This is important!!
• Ex: A user is not a node. A taxonomy is not a
node. An account is not a node.
• Knowing this is important for evaluation of
what can and cannot be easily done through
the UI, without additional programming.

29. Layout and Regions
• A Region is an area in a layout, such as a header, footer,
content, left/right sidebar into which blocks can be
placed and arranged.
• A block is a box containing some information
• A node resides only in the content area of the layout
(except in special circumstances).
• Think of the content region as a big ‘node’ block that
allows other blocks in it but the node itself can’t move.

30. Blocks
• Blocks are added by modules.
• Blocks can contain views, widgets, menus,
nodes (in special circumstances), and panels.
• Blocks can be moved around through the UI
• Blocks can be styled individually.

31. Taxonomy
• Categorization
• Set up master Categories
• Set up Sub Categories

32. Additional Terminology
• Views – an interface for making customized
lists of the data contained in the drupal
database.
• Panels – an interface for making customized
layouts of nodes available to the panels
module.
• Widgets – a general term for interactive form
elements or graphs that are enabled by
modules.