Site builder's toolkit

Last updated February 3, 2012. Created by LeeHunter on November 9, 2009.
Edited by Heine, bhavya.bdv, juan_g, Carolyn. Log in to edit this page.

This section provides information on tools which are particularly useful when building Drupal sites.

Note: The Site Building Guide is undergoing reorganization.

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Site builders toolkit

Posted by davedpss on May 23, 2011 at 4:35am

Why would you have to take this toolkit offline to reorganize it? I'm guessing it is a huge piece of learning drupal? Was it that error riddled that you had to take it down?

Dave

If you need to get started

Posted by chrisshattuck on June 30, 2011 at 8:18pm

If you need to get started with site building before this handbook is reorganized, a bunch of the videos in the Build Your First Drupal 7 Web Site collection on Build a Module.com are free. Definitely enough to get you started on the right track. Here's a link to the introduction video.

Cheers!
Chris

I've recorded over 500 focused Drupal video tutorials at Build a Module.com.

angry

Posted by anahivelasco on June 3, 2011 at 2:57pm

im getting super angry because im trying to make a website and this Drupal stuff is way too confusing. it told me to download the core thing and i did. then it tells me to look at modules but why do i look at them if i dont even know how to start the website????????????

Getting Started with Drupal -Tutorials

Posted by kirk59 on June 6, 2011 at 7:24pm

Hi anahivelasco,

I am just staring with drupal and have found some excellent tutorials which I hope will help you as well as it did me.
Here are the links:-
http://www.leveltendesign.com/tutorial/course/getting-started-drupal-7
http://nodeone.se/blogg/learn-drupal-7-sceencast-series-summed-up (Links are on side bar on right)

There are more advanced one but these should give you a great start.

Have a brilliant day.

Cheers,

Kirk

DNN Convert

Posted by salvig67 on October 11, 2011 at 11:43pm

I found Drupal easy to install and configure I love Drupal. looking forward to the ribbon when it is done for version 7 I am going to put it on my peel page :)

Salvatore A Vigliotti

new to drupal

Posted by rob0024 on June 23, 2011 at 3:50am

after reading the comments on this page , I am amazed at the lack of resourcefulness. I got turned on to Drupal through an issue of Linux Journal. My servers are now running on Ubuntu, Apache, and Drupal. It just took a trip to the local library, and about four days of reading. I am now running multiple sites on Drupal, yet the more I learn, the more I find that I have barely scratched the surface . The possibilities are endless when you open your eyes and look around.

I did not write this as an insult, it is more along the lines of; if you want it to work bad enough, you will find the resources, and it will.

Well...

Posted by luthien7 on August 2, 2011 at 4:05am

I have to say I see what you are saying but I only half agree.
I look at the comments on this page and wonder why anyone would get so angry when this is an almost limitless potential cms built for free with contributions everywhere from folks offering their time and hard work for free, and just a little dedication and searching will yield answers for pretty much every question for free...
I've tried pretty much everything else out there and this has certainly been the toughest to learn and by far the one with the most potential. No matter how hard you try you will never accomplish half of what you can do here on a platform like Joomla or Wordpress. It absolutely does not come easy and I for one (an absolute novice) have started and stopped and restarted more times than I can count. It took a lot of time and patience, and asking for help, and reading the help offered to folks before me with same issues to get to a point where it could really work. That's what makes it a community. And it is absolutely awesome. It does come down to "if you want it to work bad enough, you will find the resources". i would just add that if you move beyond this one single page a lot of the answers are right here in the documentation. I wasted money on 5 books on Drupal before realizing it.

Thanks for the hard work!

Building Custom Block

Posted by Cybergrass on August 23, 2011 at 4:57pm

I have migrated most of my old PHPNuke site to Drupal 7 but much of the functionality I desire isn't available for the 7.x releases yet.

I need to know how to implement some of the previous functionality to Drupal and have been seeking a tool kit or other sample block or module to get me started in the right direction.

I'm running MySQL and getting various database errors with D7 methods in older modules as well as a general out of memory error on admin updates.

Is there someplace to go to learn how to properly implement new functionality into Drupal?

Thanks!

Its looking more confusing

Posted by vikasbook on December 16, 2011 at 11:44am

Its looking more confusing for me I don’t know how should I thanked to you I wish you would tell me more on same. I am just learner of the great drupal.

Vikas Arora