I just re-launched my personal site, http://etmeli.us, which I will be using for software development notes and keeping track of cool links. As I was getting things set up, I ran across an unfinished tutorial in the Drupal.org documentation, and decided to write one myself. After checking that content creation worked by making an "about" page, my next step was to build a 40-page (and still growing) walkthrough of how I put the site together in Drupal 6.x. I did my best to arrange the steps to minimize the "back-and-forth configuration" that Drupal sometimes requires.
The top level of the tutorial is http://etmeli.us/build-this-site.
The main topics are:
- Why this tutorial?
- Tools and Jargon
- Download and Installation (what packages to download first and getting deployed to the webhost I use)
- Site Setup (Step-by-step configuration of taxonomy, aliases, useful modules, permissions, more modules, and themes)
- Search Engine Optimization (a small topic, will grow as I learn more about it)
- Making a Tutorial (how to make a tutorial like this one using the Book module)
- Thanks for reading!
The target user is someone who already knows a little about deploying websites, knows a little about PHP and CSS, but needs some help getting used to Drupal.
As I make changes and improvements to the site, I'll keep the tutorial up to date so that it always reflects the current state of the site. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement.
Steve
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http://etmeli.us/ - web development lab notebook
http://etmeli.us/build-this-site - Drupal 6 install tutorial
