Drupal overview

In Understanding Drupal, the first in The Lullabot Learning Series, the Lullabot team provides an overview of Drupal as a content management system, as a PHP web application framework, and as a developer community. Its documentary-style exploration covers all the terminology and fundamental concepts for both site administrators and developers. If you've ever been confused by Drupal or are still trying to wrap your head around the community and platform, then this video is a roadmap to accelerate your journey up the Drupal learning curve.

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In the old days, moving to Drupal often meant converting static pages or templates to Drupal nodes. Today, it is rare that we get to build a site from scratch. Reality is that most major Drupal projects are now migrations from other content management systems.

Taking on such a migration is not a trivial decision for an organization. There is a great deal of complexity in the reasons for migrating, but the decision is often not understood well amongst the various stakeholders.

In this session, you will learn about modules. Annika gives a brief overview of Drupal's core modules, shows you some essential modules to use on a fresh site, and explains why these modules are must-haves.

LevelTen's very own, David Hahn, presents Learning Drupal. In it, he will show you the best ways to dive into Drupal. This is a great presentation to watch if you're interested in Drupal and don't know where to get started. Start here!

Acquia's Kieran Lal gives an introduction and complete overview of what Drupal and open source software is, the importance of its community, who is using Drupal, and what it is capable of. This is a great presentation if you are new to Drupal or if you have heard of Drupal and are considering using it.

Kieran Lal of Acquia visited the LevelTen Interactive office to discuss social business software and Acquia's Commons platform.

"Drupal is hard. It's not just a CMS, it's not just a framework. It has the power of both and simplicity of neither." In this presentation, Erik Webb discusses the importance of thinking like a Drupal developer, no matter what your role is- themer, site builder, programmer. He demonstrates this by discussing how Drupal works, what Drupal can do for you, the difference between coders and builders, and more.

Drupal isn’t a content management system. It’s an application development platform that happens to ship with a great CMS as it’s default implementation. Look at any chart comparing features of development frameworks and you’ll see user management and authentication, forms management and validation, data storage, database migrations, internationalization and translation, MVC model with flexible templating, unit testing, and caching. Sounds a lot like Drupal.

With over half a million contributing developers in 200+ countries, Drupal powers over 2% of the web including such diverse sites as The White House, Economist.com, Examiner.com, Amnesty International, MTVuk, .net magazine and Data.gov.uk.

In this webinar, Chris introduces Acquia's Drupal distribution, Drupal Commons. Even though the presentation talks about Commons, the customization is applicable to most Drupal sites. This session covers:

1. How to customize text in a few different ways
2. How to use the Context module to hide a block
3. How to use the Views module to change the order of a content list to be sorted alphabetically.
4. How to use the Views module to change the number of items displayed and add a pager.
5. How to add a custom Box / Block and use it to replace content on the home page.