What is Drupal? (For the absolute noob)

This is a super simple presentation that outlines how Drupal operates in very general terms, designed to appeal to a non-technical audience with heavy usage of metaphors and personification.

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2. What is Drupal?
3. A flexible way to store and retrieve data
4. What does that really mean John?
5. In the old days of cavemen…
6. People had to code every webpage BY HAND
7. YUCK!!!!!
8. More refined people now use…
9. Content Management Systems (CMS)
10. CMS’ Allow People to Put Content Online Without Coding!
11. Great John, everyone and their grandmas use CMS’ now. What makes Drupal special?
12. Most CMS’ store data in database THEY design
13. Drupal stores data in database YOU design
14. HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?
15. Content-types made up of fields!
16. Fields are like the LEGOs of your site l  All are different but they use a common structure to fit together
17. Put the Fields Together… l  DROPDOWNS! l  WYSIWYG l  MULTI-PICK LISTS! l  TEXT FIELDS!
18. Now You Have a Batmobile… l  The fields define the data structure for your content-types inside of your database
19. Holy smokes batman, cool your jets. What if I don’t want to make a batmobile?
20. Install a Module!
21. Modules extend the abilities of Drupal infinitely
22. With modules, you can design your data in ANY way
23. How does that data get output John?
24. Regions, Views, Blocks!
25. A Region Breaks Up a Page Into Sections
26. Views fill the Regions with different sorts of data from your Content-types Drupal says, ‘These five items, sir’ Regions says, ‘Put it in the Right Sidebar Mr. Drupal’ Views asks Drupal, ‘Hey Drupal, What’s your most read content?”
27. Blocks can also fill the Regions with static chunks of content Drupal says, ‘Here is the Tool Block.’ Regions again says, ‘Put it in the Right Sidebar Mr. Drupal’ Block just has its content ready to go, No need to ask Drupal, like Views did
28. When you put all of that together, you get…
29. MILLIONS OF Different, Awesome Websites… Symantec