The Drupal CMS

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The Drupal CMS

• Lih-ching Chou

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Contents

• Whats a CMS?
• Whats so good about Drupal?
• How to use Drupal
• What does this have to do with me?

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Whats a CMS?

• Content Management System
• Content in database vs content in html
• Xanga, WordPress, Movable Type
• Joomla, Mambo, Xoops, phpNuke,Typo3

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Why Drupal?

• Easy to install
• Easy to use
• Powerful modules
• One code, multiple sites
• PHP MySQL/PostgreSQL
• FREE!

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Example Sites

• http//www.datawitness.com/
• http//www.batterydirect.com/
• http//www.biennial.com/
• http//www.i-bloggers.com/

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How to use Drupal-Installation

• Unzip the file into the directory
• Load db schema
• Write settings.php (username/pw)
• Download / install modules

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Features

• http//demo.opensourcecms.com/drupal/?
• Blocks
• Menu
• Themes

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Questions?