1. Building an Academic Site
with
Drupal
by
K Rajasekharan
Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
Email rajankila@hotmail.com

2. What is a website?

3. A site : A knowledge unit

4. Purpose of a Site
• To add to the global e-knowledge
• To collect, organise & deliver
information
• To exploit Innovative e-learning
• To use as a fulcrum of institutional
information exchange

5. What makes
a site
exciting

6. Craft
Creativity
Contents worth-
delivering &
Technologies

7. Planning a Website
• Planning is half the work
• Design determines the appearance
• Avoid clutter : make site simple
• Keep users in mind
• Content is the King
• Provide further links from each page

8. Information Architecture (IA)
Structuring, Organization,
Categorization, labeling,
search, and navigation for
Information usability

9. Organization of Information/Pages

10. Graphic Design
Use Design Principles
length, breadth, grid
etc to make the Site
Attractive

11. A three-column design with navigation & footer

12. The Art of Typography
The contrast between
fonts & between text,
blocks & surroundings
improves design & visual
culture

13. Use typography properly

14. Use Colours properly
Colours can set a mood,
attract attention &
ease use of content .
Learn Principles of
Colour Use

15. Site : Colour Scheme Designer

16. A website on
Local Governance at
http://decwatch.org
Using Drupal
-------------
The site no longer
does exist

17. It looks like this

18. A Page on Kerala

19. A page on Kudumbashree

20. High Court Judgments

21. External links a page provides

22. E Documents on Kerala : with Search

23. Kerala Law & Rules : Easier to Use

24. Guidelines on Central Schemes

25. An FAQ on Decentralisation

26. Free E Journals : with Search

27. An Archive on Direct Democracy

28. Classics on Political Science

29. Audio Books for Download

30. Related Websites with Search

31. Power Point - Presentations

32. Related Sites with Search within

33. Archive of News Items

34. A Video Repository

35. It integrates an Article Archive

36. A Mail Group for Discussions

37. Related E Learning Site

38. Site-Admininstration : the back-end

39. Software Used on the Site
• Drupal : One of the best, useful for many
uses
• Wordpress : Very popular, easy to use,
beautiful
• Moodle : one of the best E-Learning tool
• Blogger : Popular blog site
• Google Groups: for email discussions
• Scribd.com & Such sites linked to it to
bring in outside content

40. How to Build a site with Drupal

41. Software for Drupal Installation
• Apache,
• MySQL,
• PhP
• XAMPP contains all the three
• Htdocs/www is the web server root folder

42. Uploading a Live Website
• Get a url & web space from a provider
• Create a database using the Cpanel
• Upload the CMS to the server by using
filezilla/ftp application
• Type url (http://sitename.com) on a
browser
• Configure to make the site

43. Go to phpMyAdmin

44. Create a MySQL Database

45. Drupal Installation : Opening Screen

46. Configure Database

47. Configure Site

48. Add functionality to the Site

49. Site Admin Page : to do other things

50. Theme : to Change the Look

51. Regions & Blocks for Content Placing

52. Module Enabling Page

53. Configuring Modules

54. Editing of Navigation Menu

55. How to Give Permission to Users

56. Easy to Creating a Page