Introduction to

Drupal

By Vaibhav JainTekriti Software

15th September’12

What is a CMS What is Drupal and Why Drupal over other CMS Installing Drupal How Drupal Works Drupal Terminology Work Flow

Agenda ..?

Tools for authoring, publishing and managing content on the site.

Administrative interface User management Security framework Web2.0 capable Content categorization (tagging) E commerce ready

What is a CMS

Free & Open Source Drupal Community

Lots of modules and themes Drupal features

Clean, Extensible, Modular codeHigh PerformanceSEO friendlyMeet Security Standards (set by US government agencies)

Why Drupal

Written in PHP Simple and flexible Extendable and acts like a Framework 18k + modules, and ~1500 Themes Used by White house, Twitter API, India Data portal,

Commonwealth games and many more…

What is Drupal ?

Drupal over other CMS

Advanced URL ControlCustom Content types

and viewsRevision controlTaxonomyUser management

Page titles and meta tags

Excellent Documentation

PHP TemplateDrupal CookbooksLarge and friendly

Community

Installing Drupal

How Drupal Works ?

Content Types

Content typesArticleBasic page

Field API, Part of core (Formerly CCK)File fieldImage fieldInteger, text, varchar, boolean

Site Building

with Drupal

Thank You