Drupal - Overview

What is Drupal?

Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System (CMS) that allows organizing, managing and publishing your content. It is built on PHP based environments. This is carried out under GNU i.e. General Public Licence, that means everyone have a freedom of downloading and sharing it to others.

Drupal - Installation

This article provides step-by-step procedure for Drupal installation. Befor installing Drupal, you require following system requirements.

Drupal - Architecture

Drupal is a platform for web content management which is powerful tool for building simple and complex sites. In this chapter, we are going to discuss the architectural style of Drupal for implementing user interfaces. The following diagram shows architecture of Drupal:

Drupal - Main Menu

In this chapter, we will study about how to Create Menus in Drupal. Menus are very important to navigate your website easily.Menus offer a set of links as a result, you can navigate your website. The Drupal menu allows you to add, remove and rename the menus and menu items.

Drupal - Blocks & Regions

In this chapter, we will study about Drupal Blocks & Regions. Blocks are container objects that are used to organize your content of your website. It can be displayed in the regions on your page.
Following are the simple steps for creating Drupal Blocks.

Drupal - Themes & Layouts

In this chapter, let us study about Themes and Layouts. Drupal will install Bartik theme as default theme during installation. You can select paid or free themes from Drupal official site. In general, layout is an arrangement of text and graphics. It is a good thought to choose a theme, keeping what different layouts to use on your site.

Drupal - Front Page

In this chapter let us study about, how to create Front Page in Drupal.If you have a good content on your website and expect your visitor to see that particular content first, then that article must be on the front page. Here Drupal provides solution for this.

Drupal - Static Pages

In this chapter we will study about how to create Static Pages in Drupal. Let's add some static pages named About Us and Services. The main purpuse for using a static pages is speed and steadiness. Static websites are more faster than a dynamic site.

Drupal - Create Blog

In this chapter we will study about how to Create Blogs in Drupal. Blog entries can be made public or private, to the site members, depending on which roles have access to view content.
Following are the simple steps used for creating Drupal Blogs
Step(1): click on the Modules as shown below.

Drupal - Create Articles

In this chapter, we will study about Creating articles in Drupal. Creating articles help your visitors know about the company and your website in detail in the form of articles.
Following are the steps used to create articles in Drupal.

Drupal - Create Pages

In this chapter, we will study about how to Create Pages in Drupal. It is very easy to create pages in Drupal.
Following are the simple steps used to create pages in Drupal.
Step (1): Click on Content in the top menu.

Drupal - Create Content

In this chapter let us study about Creating content. In Drupal content type defines the style in which contents are collected and displayed. When you install Drupal, by default two content types will be fixed and they are Articles and Basic page. When you enable other core and contributed modules by visiting Modules you can use other content types also.

Drupal - Modify Content

In this chapter let us study about how to Modify content in drupal. You can modify any of the previously used content type's content such as Articles, Basic page and Blog entry.
Following are the simple steps used for modifying content.

Drupal - Delete Content

In this chapter let us study about Deleting content. You can delete any of the previously written content such as Articles, Basic page and Blog entry.
Following are the simple steps used to delete content.
Step(1): Click on the Content as shown below.

Drupal - Publish Content

In this chapter let us study about how to Publish content. Every content is either published or unpublished. Published content will be seen by everyone where as unpublished content will not be seen. We can make use of this to hide the content from public view without deleting it.

Drupal - Menu Management

In this chapter we will study about the Menu Management in Drupal. Menu Management is the important part to navigate through your Drupal admin page. Below is the Drupal Menu Management.

Drupal - Taxonomies

Taxonomy can be thought of classifying website content which display specific content based on taxonomy terms. Drupal taxonomy is made up of several terms such as:

• Term: It is used to manage or describe the content.
• Vocabulary: It is set of terms.
  

Drupal - Comment

In this chapter we will study about Comments in Drupal. You can enable or disable the comments on your website. You can control, who can comment on your website's content and can manage those comments.
Following are the simple steps to configure comments in Drupal.

Drupal - User Management

User Management manages the information of the user, which allows creating or deleting the user, changing passwords, time and roles.
Following are the simple steps to manage the users in Drupal
Step (1): Click on People --> Permissions Tab.

Drupal - Optimization

In this chapter we will learn about how to optimize Drupal to improve its performance and speed. There are few steps through which we can improve the performance of the website.
Following are the steps that would help one optimize the website.