Introduction to Drupal CMS

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A very simple tutorial to get started in Drupal content management system. Even non-programmers, technology entrepreneurs, business/marketing professionals, web designers and graphic artists can follow it.

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INSTALLATION IN WINDOWSBY

Babu – info@paramprojects.com

DRUPAL CMS MADE EASY

What is Drupal

• Content management system• Content management framework• A place where you can create your own

website and customize it via CSS(stylesheets), template coding and PHP modules(if required)

Installation process

• Before we install drupal 6, some tools are required:

xampp drupal 6

process

• Download the xampp from (www.apachefriends.org)

• Install xampp and activate mysql. apache server.• Download the drupal 6 (www.drupal.org) • Extract and rename like(eg:paramprojects)

as the folder name.• Place it in xampp/htdocs

Before install drupal we must create database in xampp

• Create a database in phpmyadmin

• Your new drupal website will be displayed as shown below

After the creation of database

• We are going to install drupal 6.• In drupal, we choose the language first.

Requirements problem

• To solve the requirements problem.• Copy the file .site/default/default.settings.php

into the same folder named as settings.php

Setup database

• We give the already created database name.• And select the database type.• Give the database user name as root.

Configuration site

• In the configuration site, we give the sitename,site email address,user name.

Successfully installed the drupal

• Our own account has been created.• We start to create our websites.

Add the dowloaded themes

• Download the free themes from drupal.org• Those downloaded themes have to extracted in

into the location sites/all/themes.• Finally, enable them via administrator login

Thank you!

Contact: BabuPhone: +91-9444173392info@paramprojects.com