A quick and friendly overview of Drupal (based on Drupal 6).

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Drupal Overview
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Manageable Building Blocks
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Nodes
Modules
Fields
Blocks
Views
Drupal is not a typical
Content Management
System.
Drupal is a content
management
framework consisting
of manageable
building blocks.
Theme
Features
Taxonomy
Menus
Paths

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Modules
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Modules are the core
building blocks of Drupal.
If there is functionality needed
for your site, it is likely that one
of the thousands of contributed
modules can meet your needs.

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Node
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A node is the core building
block of content in Drupal.
Drupal can have many content
types, but they are all nodes.
This common foundation for
content creates a very flexible
framework.
News Article
Blog Bio

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Content Type
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Defining content types is at
the root of Drupal
Information Architecture.
Custom fields created with
the Content module are
another, more granular
building block that give you
ultimate flexibility in defining
content types.

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Paths
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Drupal offers complete
flexibility to define and
configure URL paths.
With the addition of the
contributed PathAuto and
Token modules, Drupal paths
enable excellent SEO.

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Taxonomy
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Along with content types and
paths, Drupal’s Taxonomy offers a
flexible way to categorize your
site’s content.
A well designed Drupal Taxonomy will
enhance SEO. In Drupal, taxonomy
consists of vocabularies that are
associated to content types and terms
that belong to those vocabularies.

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Block
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A Block is the catch-all
building block for
micro-content.
Blocks allow you to put
specific content on any
page in a specific region
of the page.

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Menu
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Menus provide a flexible
building block for site
navigation.
You can have any number of
menus referencing any path
and lay them out as blocks
on any page.

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Views
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Views is a very
important contrib
module and a core
Drupal building block.
Views offers complete
flexibility for managing
complex content
aggregation and display of
nodes, fields, etc.
throughout your site.

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Features
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Features are the macro
building block of Drupal.
The Features module enables
the creation of manageable,
dynamically generated, custom
modules using many of the
Drupal building blocks that we
have discussed.

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Theme
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Drupal offers flexible theming
capabilities through templates and
regions.
Templates are HTML fragments with a
handful of Drupal PHP snippets.
Regions divide a Drupal web page into
manageable sections and allow you to
manage the placement of blocks,
nodes, menus, etc.
Theme
templates regions CSS

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Open Source, The Drupal Way
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A fundamental philosophy
around Drupal development
is – only as a last resort.
Always try to implement the
functionality you need with
installed modules, then other
contrib modules, and finally, as
a last resort, write your own
code.

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Questions?
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Questions or comments?
Please contact:
Kurt Madel
CapTech Consulting
kmadel@captechconsulting.com