Good drupal tutorial?
I am trying my hands with Drupal for first time. I have no clue as where to start and do. I am an absolute newbie. Could you please tell me any good tutorial for beginner? I want to try its CMS first and a bit of blogging later on.
The lastest version is Drupal 6.2. Would appreciate any tips and things to avoid for example. I want to make the seemingly steep learning curve as easy as possible. I guess all the tutorials or books cover earlier versions of drual but I hope the basic set up is same. right?
Thanks in advance
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Which part of Drupal are you
Which part of Drupal are you interested in? Building a site from a modules or theming?
You must have seen these: http://drupal.org/handbooks
The basic steps of building a Drupal site are the following:
1. Identify exactly the functions of the site.
2. See if you can build the site with Drupal core only.
3. If not, see if the contrib modules will provide the functionality.
4. If not, see if php snippets can provide the functionality.
5. If not, hire a programmer to write a custom module for you.
6. Design the theme for each typical page.
7. Create a phptemplate theme for Drupal from your design.
8. Upload content.
WYSIWYG Editor not found in Drupal 6.x
I have Drupal 6.2 and have been trying to build a basic site with Drupal core first. I am liking the drag and drop stuff but cannot figure out how to add content in the left or right side. Whatever content I create goes into the middle column of the site. Also there is no WYSIWYG Editor module installed out of the box. That means that if one(e.i. clients) is not familiar with HTML he cannot add text with H1, H2.....and so on. The TinyMCE Automatic Configuration, which I found through Google ,is only for Drupal 5.x version. So adding content is dull at the moments. Any ideas how to get WYSIWYG Editor for drupal 6.x version? This is not included the modules I have seen so far.
I have read the handbook at drupal website. Very good;
Thanks again
On the left and right blocks
On the left and right blocks appear. Try switching them on. You can also create new ones at your will. Certain modules will give you the option to switch on new blocks as well.
I downloaded and installed
I downloaded and installed drupal5.7 because they said it has most modules and tehmes and everything elso stable and working. And I am lovin it.
Yes I can create blocks and place wherever I fancy on the screen. The way content is created and organized in Drupal is certainly not same as in MODx which I have some experience. In MODx themes can be quicly developed and ported whereas in Drupal it is more involved. It is early days though. I will continue playing with it.