Drupal Introduction
DRUPAL 101
- Barriers : static HTML & org capacity
- CMS : WP has biggest market, Drupal is 2nd
- Reviewing the UI
- DRUPAL
- MySQL
- broader Platform than WP
- includes API > functions out of the box
Drupal is a software and requires hosting for Apache and MySQL
Drupal 8 releases twin 2 versions are supported (D6&7 currently)
Drupal has a big focus on contributed modules
Out of the box. Drupal Core has a fair amount of functions (less than WP)
Drupal must be built in order to be useful
Drupal.org > Project > DL & Extend (>Themes)
Custom themes are often made with base theme
- ROLES
- can be assigned to org members
- permissions can be assigned to different roles
- FIELDS
- each content type has a field
- fields are configured after content type is made
-fields also include widgets, expanding the field function
- MODULES
- WYSIWIG
- there are standards that help build the site
- more modules await in Drupal
- a lot can be done with modules
- EXAMPLE : KRC (Korean Resource Center)
Drupal code and modules
- RULE : don't hack core
- ADAPTIVE Theme is a good base theme, this can be built on
- Something about BackDrop
- is a fork of Drupal
- takes from D7 and pulls back D8
- this allows smaller sites to stay up longer
- simplifies some drupal functions
- DRUPAL 8 will improve its extensive multilingual functions