What is Drupal? (For the absolute noob)

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What is Drupal?

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A flexible way to store and retrieve data

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What does that really mean John?

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In the old days of cavemen…

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People had to code every webpage BY HAND

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YUCK!!!!!

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More refined people now use…

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Content Management Systems (CMS)

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CMS’ Allow People to Put Content Online Without Coding!

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Great John, everyone and their grandmas use CMS’ now. What makes Drupal special?

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Most CMS’ store data in database THEY design

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Drupal stores data in database YOU design

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HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?

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Content-types made up of fields!

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Fields are like the LEGOs of your site l  All are different but they use a common structure to fit together

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Put the Fields Together… l  DROPDOWNS! l  WYSIWYG l  MULTI-PICK LISTS! l  TEXT FIELDS!

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Now You Have a Batmobile… l  The fields define the data structure for your content-types inside of your database

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Holy smokes batman, cool your jets. What if I don’t want to make a batmobile?

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Install a Module!

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Modules extend the abilities of Drupal infinitely

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With modules, you can design your data in ANY way

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How does that data get output John?

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Regions, Views, Blocks!

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A Region Breaks Up a Page Into Sections

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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?”

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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