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Topics. Content administration. Basic installation and configuration. Theme and module installation. The Must-Have Modules that no website can go without. The Nice-to-Have Modules that expand functionality for a more thorough experience. Beginning Drupal for Non-Developers.
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Topics Content administration Basic installation and configuration Theme and module installation The Must-Have Modules that no website can go without The Nice-to-Have Modules that expand functionality for a more thorough experience
Beginning Drupal for Non-Developers Basic installation and configuration
Installation sites/default Rename the copy “settings.php” and set permissions to 777
Beginning Drupal for Non-Developers Theme and Module Installation
Beginning Drupal for Non-Developers Content Administration
Content Administration 3 Main Types of Content: Blocks – snippets of content or functionality Nodes – articles, stories Taxonomy – categories or terms
Beginning Drupal for Non-Developers Essential Modules
Essential Modules Views & Views UI
Essential Modules Pathauto article/year/month category/tags
Essential Modules Google Analytics
Essential Modules Rules - Rules is a fundamental Drupal module that allows site builders to bring a measure of automation to their sites. Rules works hand-in-hand with the Entity API to enable developers to configure events that will be executed whenever certain conditions are met. Allows non-programmers to create if-like statements and make the system respond with an action. Login redirects based on user role, status, what day of the week it is, first letter of their username, anything! Create notifications on replies, comments, other user actions, purchases (for ecommerce) Create promotions and sync content with promotions (for ecommerce)
Beginning Drupal for Non-Developers Expand Functionality
Expand Functionality Panels
Expand Functionality Internationalization – provides a collection of modules to create a multilingual experience.
Expand Functionality Drupal Commerce
Beginning Drupal for Non-Developers What has Drupal done for you?
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