An introduction to Drupal, with a working demo to show how ;)

1. Managing and Building a website
with Drupal
Hari K T
Bridge India

2. Contents
 Drupal ?
 Installation
 Normal
 Drush
 Aeiger
 Extending
 Modules
 Themes
 Demo
 Q&A

3. Drupal ?
 CMS
 Content Management System
 CMF
 Content Management Framework
 History
 Started by Dries Buytaert in 1999
 GPL
 Druppel ( Dutch ) => Drop

4. Where can it be used ?
 Community Website
 Weblog
 Forums
 Social Networking
 Wiki / Knowledge Base
 & much more :)

5. Who uses it ?
 Whitehouse
 Spread Firefox
 Ubuntu
 economist.com
 mtv.co.uk
 These are some of the popular ones and
ofcourse I am using it :-)

6. Installation
 Normal
 Drush, the swiss army knife
 Aeiger which will replace cpanel :-)

7. Extending Drupal
 Modules
 http://drupal.org/project/modules
 Themes
 http://drupal.org/project/themes
 Make your own using *_hooks()
 http://api.drupal.org
 http://api.lullabot.com

8. Demo
 Yes its time for a demo :)

9. Q&A
 ?

10. Thank You
 So start playing with http://www.drupalgardens.com/
 Interested to see apps on top of drupal ?
 Managingnews : RSS/Atom based news tracker
 Openpublish : News paper website
 Openatrium : Team collaboration tool
 Commons : Community
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Build from drupal and contributed 3rd party modules