Installing Drupal

Compare the experience of installing an app on your phone versus adding a feature to your Drupal website. Wouldn't it be nice if it were that easy in Drupal as well? It is now with the new Apps module.

Learn how making a Drupal website is now easier than ever.

We'll cover installing, creating and finding apps as well as how to leverage Open Enterprise 7 to create a base system ready for apps.

This session will explain how can drush help automate tasks during deployment, why you should be using a deployment tool, what drush deploy is, how drush can simplify drupal deployments and who drush is best suited for compared to other deployment tools.

So, your client has seen the light and is tossing out their old CMS in favor of Drupal. Their existing content, in the form of square pegs, needs to fit into nice round Drupal objects.

Learn about the Migrate module, from Moshe Weitzman, a maintainer of Migrate and Drush. Migrate module is a native Drupal solution for sucking in content from many different sources and saving it it cleanly into Drupal.

Presented by
Barry Jaspan

Drupal site best practice workflow includes initial development on local workstation, testing in a staging environment, and a production environment ranging from a single server to a high-performance high-availability cluster. After initial deployment, future versions go through the same workflow with the additional need to run tests based on the current production database and filesystem.

In this session, I'll demonstrate how to easily develop, test, and scale your Drupal site through this entire lifecycle without losing your mind.

If you are a beginner, check out this series. In it, you will learn some essential and basic site building functions out of a new, standard Drupal installation. Keith walks you through installing Drupal and shows you how to manage and configure accounts, blocks, pages and content.

In this tutorial, Keith walks you through installing Drupal to your website via FTP. You will learn what to upload, what permissions to change and how to connect your site to your hosts database.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Drupal 7 on a live site. Topics include, creating a MySQL database, transferring the Drupal files with an ftp client, and running the installer to setup the site.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install and setup a Drupal 7 development environment on your computer, a Mac in this example. Topics include installing MAMP,(Mac Apache MySQL PHP)creating a MySQL database, downloading and administering Drupals files and folders, running the installer and setup.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install Drupal on local desktops and laptops. We will show you the simplest way to get up and running quickly, with no server admin skills required using Acquia's DAMP Stack Installer.

The tutorial will walks through installing Drupal on a Windows 7 computer, but the steps are nearly identical for the Mac OS and *NIX workstations. Local installations are the best way to develop and play with Drupal. In less than 10 minutes, you will have your local computer setup to run as many Drupal sites as you like.

It takes a tool chest of apps to build and manage a website. What is even better is if you have them where ever you go.

In this tutorial we take a look at the essential tools ever webmaster should have and a free package you can download and take with you.