A short introduction to answer the question, "What is Drupal?"

1. An Introduction to
Drupal
by Jared McFarland

2. What is Drupal?

3. CMS
• Content Management System
• A way for non-developers and non-
programmers to manage content
• Control panels instead of code

4. Admin Controls

5. Open Source
• 800 Core contributors
• 5 Branch Maintainers
• 1 Core Commiter

6. Under the hood

7. Stack
• Linux (BSD, Mac OS, Windows, Solaris)
• Apache (lighttpd, IIS)
• MySQL (PostgresSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
• PHP

8. Core

9. Modules

10. Themes
• Multiple template engines available
(PHPTemplate)
• Total customization

11. Drupal

12. Examples

13. Bookmans

14. Sony Music Artists

15. New York Observer

16. Resources

17. Websites
• Drupal
• drupal.org
• Tucson and Southern Arizona DUG
• groups.drupal.org/tucson-and-southern-arizona
• TDAC
• http://tucsondigitalarts.com/groups/drupal-users

18. Books
• Pro Drupal Development, Second Edition,
John K VanDyk

19. Other
• IRC
• irc.freenode.net #drupal
• Commercial Support
• Acquia -- acquia.com

20. Me!
• Email
• jaredm@bookmans.com
• Chat
• GTalk: jared.online
• Other
• jared-mcfarland.com
• Twitter
• jaredmcfarland

21. Questions?