By bertboerland on
Over at dudertown.com you can find a nice set of articles with screencasts of howto’s / best practices when it comes to implementing and administrating a Drupal site. You can subscribe to the RSS feed of this section as well. Both for beginning Drupal administrators, people who are interested in using Drupal for a future project as well as for Drupal users that have been around for longer, worth checking out. The casts self are long (without being lengthy), in depth (without losing the audience) and very useful with lots of information. So be sure to check them out, there are currently 8 screencasts online.
Note that these screencasts are also linked on the "overview" page of the screencast section of the Drupal handbook.
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very usefull
I drupalised a lot of cow-workers and 4.7 4.8 was the first upgrade they have done. And it might take 3 minutes to read the howto and 10 minutes to see the screencasts upgrade video (thanks lullubot). And still, after reading there are dozen of questions, after watching the video they did the upgrade in minutes.
So we might want to rethink -usability issues aside- about the impact of having scereencasts for more of our our handbook pages, I was amazed by the impact video has on our users.
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Drupal Training Video Idea
Thanks again for the link, we've picked up a ton of traffic this week with the screencasts (a bunch more should be released every few days).
Aside from the current topics I plan on covering, I was thinking that some drupal 'training' type videos would be a huge benefit to show content editors how to operate a drupal site, and might be a good tool in showing people why Drupal is a great choice for a wide variety of websites.
The obvious problem is that every site built with drupal is configured differently, but the benefit to the way core is structured, is that basic things like content creation, editing, adding filtered html tags etc. are pretty standard across the board.
I'd be happy to begin a new series of screencasts when the current series wraps up with a focus on training content editors how to use/build their site the 'Drupal Way', or possibly just make a single demonstration video similar to the clips apple tends to put up to show off key features of their software (ex. http://www.apple.com/ilife/quicktour/garageband/ ).
Do you think this would be a good quick and easy tool to demonstrate the power and effeciency of Drupal? Which features would be most valubale to demonstrate?
Off the top of my head I could imagine a short list showing:
-Content Creation (with taxonomy enabled, possibly upload module): Showing how to create a story, explaining the categories briefly, demonstrating how easy it is to add files.
-Content/Menu organization: showing how simple it is to move around links, explain weighting
-Lists: demonstrate how easy it is to list stories based on taxonomy, and publish an RSS feed or podcast
-Themes: demonstrate theme configuration, how to switch themes, where to get more themes
-Modules: show how Drupal is much more than core, and how simple most additional modules are to install. (I was thinking something like gsitemap would be a good one to use since search engine optimization is an important feature for a lot of people, even though drupal does a great job by default, gsitemap is a nice, simple, easy to setup module)
long post. Any thoughts?
4.8?
bertb, am I confused? a 4.7 to 4.8 upgrade?
no i am confused
4.6 4.7... and i shouldnt post before drinking some coffee
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Agreed
I have learned to install Drupal 4.6 by myself, but it wasn't easy. I would have never figured it out by reading the online Drupal manuals and readme text files. Fortunately, lullabot.com made a videocast that showed how to install a Drupal 4.6 and after that it was relatively easy! So thanks again to the Lullabot guys!
This is why I initiated the videocasts page on Drupal -- well, I have created the original listing -- and why I encourage people, like the Duderdown guys, to create more screencasts and make it easy to find those screencasts.