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Managing a Drupal Website

An Introduction to Drupal
What is Drupal?
The building blocks
Where things live
Managing Users
User settings
Creating, deleting and editing users
Roles and access
Managing Content
Creating and editing content types
Workflow options
Creating, editing and deleting content
Searching content
Using blocks
Ordering Content
Drupal taxonomy overview
Creating a directory
Free tagging
The Drupal menu system
Friendly URLs and managing URL aliases
Troubleshooting

Introduction

• Physical requirements
• Distributions: core Drupal, Civicspace
• comparison between Drupal, Sharepoint Portal and Sharepoint Services
• examples of some high profile sites in Drupal
• Resources and documentation available

Installation

• Installing Drupal in 20 minutes
• Creating the first user
• Configuring basic settings
• Adding test content
• Multiple sites at one installation