Drupal Essential Training

with:

Tom Geller

Drupal is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) for a variety of platforms. It has a robust user community and easy-to-use administration features. Drupal Essential Training covers all the important aspects of installing, configuring, customizing, and maintaining a Drupal-powered website. Instructor Tom Geller explores blogs, discussion forums, member profiles, and other features while demonstrating the steps required to make Drupal perform. He also teaches fundamental concepts and skills along the way, including installation, backups, and updates; security and permissions; flexible page layouts and CSS; menu navigation; and performance monitoring and disaster recovery. He also discusses how to select and install the community-supported modules that further expand Drupal's capabilities, and gives experienced PHP programmers tips on customizing page templates. Example files accompany the course.

Released on: 8/25/2008

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Table of contents

Introduction
	Welcome	0:50	0.4 MB
	Using the example files	3:48	3.3 MB
1. What Is Drupal?
	Drupal is a CMS	7:43	8.4 MB
	Choosing Drupal	5:32	4.7 MB
	Checking Drupal's requirements	4:26	3.3 MB
	Understanding the inner workings of Drupal	4:35	4.4 MB
	Meeting the Drupal community	6:39	11.5 MB
2. What Can Drupal Do?
	Learning key terms in Drupal	5:20	5.7 MB
	Touring Drupal's interface	6:08	6.4 MB
3. Installing Drupal
	Installing WAMP and Drupal on Windows	9:41	11.4 MB
	Installing MAMP	4:34	6.5 MB
	Setting up the database on a Mac	2:02	4.0 MB
	Downloading and installing Drupal on a Mac	6:37	6.9 MB
	Troubleshooting installation problems	3:49	4.8 MB
	Automating updates with cron	7:52	13.4 MB
4. Perfecting Your Installation
	Setting up clean URLs	5:52	8.4 MB
	Backing up your Drupal site	3:31	3.5 MB
	Restoring your Drupal site from backup	4:19	6.5 MB
	Wiping your Drupal installation clean	2:07	2.5 MB
	Updating Drupal	9:48	19.7 MB
5. Understanding Drupal Administration
	Using the Administration menu	6:21	13.8 MB
	Setting site information	4:50	10.2 MB
	Setting the theme	4:26	7.1 MB
6. Managing Users on Your Site
	Understanding security and permissions	7:02	5.0 MB
	Controlling site access with user management	3:39	5.2 MB
	Creating users	7:58	15.0 MB
	Setting user profiles	9:40	18.0 MB
	Creating contact forms	6:49	12.9 MB
7. Establishing Your Site's Identity
	Creating your site's basic info pages	7:13	7.5 MB
	Understanding page layout	5:40	10.1 MB
	Creating a flexible layout with blocks	6:26	11.8 MB
8. Keeping Your Drupal Site Running
	Monitoring performance	4:52	6.2 MB
	Recovering from disasters	7:37	11.1 MB
	Improving administration skills	3:06	4.6 MB
9. Building Content Nodes
	Understanding nodes	6:50	7.5 MB
	Creating basic content: Stories and pages	7:09	9.6 MB
	Enabling other content types	9:22	12.1 MB
	Adding blogs	3:49	5.4 MB
	Adding forums	6:56	8.4 MB
	Adding polls	6:57	8.6 MB
10. Managing Site Content
	Exploring content categories	7:45	11.8 MB
	Exchanging content via RSS	9:47	12.9 MB
	Using input filters	7:41	11.9 MB
	Managing comments	9:37	17.8 MB
11. Customizing Your Site's Appearance with Themes and CSS
	Configuring your theme	11:27	22.2 MB
	Changing your theme's graphics	4:59	7.6 MB
	Finding and installing a new theme	8:56	12.6 MB
	Understanding Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	5:56	6.7 MB
	Deciphering CSS files	6:47	6.9 MB
12. Expanding Your Site's Capabilities with Modules
	Finding modules	6:53	9.7 MB
	Unpacking and installing modules	6:30	7.8 MB
	Configuring modules	3:50	6.5 MB
	Implementing complex modules	5:28	17.7 MB
13. Identifying Must-Have Modules
	Ensuring automated updates with poormanscron	3:11	3.0 MB
	Defining custom content types with CCK	12:54	16.3 MB
	Stopping spam using a CAPTCHA	10:43	15.1 MB
	Using a WYSIWYG text editor	5:24	8.6 MB
14. Building a Navigation Framework
	Getting around with multilevel menus	7:26	8.9 MB
	Building custom menus	5:42	7.8 MB
	Creating easy-to-navigate books	9:10	13.3 MB
15. Advanced Tips for PHP Programmers
	Changing page templates with PHP	8:15	11.3 MB
	Using PHP in content	5:20	8.8 MB
	Implementing PHP snippets	6:44	9.6 MB
16. Launching Your Drupal Site
	Launching your site	5:52	11.4 MB
	Joining the Drupal community	4:23	4.6 MB
Conclusion
	Goodbye	0:14	0.2 MB