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I´m panicing, I´ve decided on Drupal as my cms but talk about a learning curve! It´s a bare sheer faced cliff! Especially for someone like me who has no experience with php, mysql or apache. I´ve ordered books on all of those but there is no drupal tutorial at amazon. Only one that deals with phpbb, wordpress and drupal. I think I´ll need a lot more that a few chapters to understand.
So if anyone knows of good tutorials please let me know, even if they are aimed at more advanced users I still might be able to figure something from them.
Thanks in advance (I hope :)
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bryght.com
This helped me out quite a bit when I was trying to wrap my head around it.
http://support.bryght.com/adminguide/how-to
Good luck!
Sources
I am in the same boat. There's a brand new book on Drupal http://drupal.org/node/63157 that may be helpful. Also, be sure to check out the "videocasts" for some excellent tutorials. http://drupal.org/videocasts/ I hope this area grows as I find the visual approach really effective. Lastly, you may want to see if there are other Drupal users in your area http://groups.drupal.org
Good Luck!
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Drupal Book
There's a newly released book available at Barnes & Noble..
Drupal Book
Also, spend a lot of time with the Handbooks and in the forums. There are plenty of ropes in there to help you up the cliff.
Thank you, thank you and thank you
This info is great, I´m much relieved! Still have to turn my brain onto overdrive to manage finishing the website I´m going to give as a birthday present in mid July (highly unrealistic I know) but at least now I´ll have something that looks like the finished site.
Perhaps if you mention your
Perhaps if you mention your goal people could more effectively suggest modules and configurations for you to try. Mid July is certainly realistic depending on the time you put in, complexity you are hoping for, etc.
I suggest you look at http://drupal.org/project/views no matter what your goals.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
Features
Thanks for your reply. The website in question is intended for my mother who is an arts teacher. It is to be mainly used for her students. Primarily to show their work and display teaching schedules but also to make announcements.
So I will nead some kind of gallery module. I imagine the simplest way would be to make one gallery and even one sub-site for each class. I would like to use some type of news module except with pictures so that the latest uploaded picture allways goes on the homepage, both the the overall homepage and also the coherrent sub-homepage for each class.
If you can recomend what modules and configureations to look into it will be most appreciated.
That book on drupal
That book on drupal (combined with phpbb etc) by Robert Douglass is one of the best resources you can buy yourself if you want to learn Drupal thoroughly. Don't let the combined book discourage you- the drupal part of the book is more than 200 pages. It is cheaper if you purchase an e-copy and print it out as I did.
Regarding your site, there are plenty of teachers who use drupal. You can get some of the names from www.drupaled.org. Also check out www.funnymonkey.com which is a resource for teachers using drupal.
O.k. thanks for the tip.
O.k. thanks for the tip. That I will do.
At it's basic
Contrib
image module - (has a simple gallery)
views - just cause it lets you do useful things.
You could look at shazamgallery which is meant to extend image module's gallery but I am not sure if it works yet.
Ignore the word blog and look at this post
http://drupal.org/node/41373
It should essentially let you do what you are working towards.
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain
-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide
Thank you those are most
Thank you those are most useful. Real nice to be able to start with something basic and then build upon it as needed.
Drupal Creating blogs, forums, portals and community websites
Just downloaded a ebook that has not been mentioned before, Drupal Creating blogs, forums, portals and community websites, by David Mercer from website packtpub.com. It comses as a password protected pdf book for a little less than the having the physical thing shipped out.
Am awaiting Building Websites with Drupal: Managing Web Content with This Popular Php/Mysql Based Open Source CMS
by same author from Barnes and Noble.
Thanks for all the links and tips.
I thought the Barnes and
I thought the Barnes and Noble thing was actually the same book as Packt Pub with a different title, but I am not sure.