Drupal and you

Brainstorm 12Erik Pederstuen

Menomonie Area Schoolserik_pederstuen@msd.k12.wi.us

What is Drupal?•Drupal is a Open Source Content Management System(or Content Management Framework)

• It is flexible enough to fit many purposes but also simple enough to be usable.

• It does this by providing users with the tools they need to make their own content management solution, while also providing some prebuilt components to help them get started.

• Drupal 6 has over 5,000 contributed Modules and over 500 themes

• There are over 3,500 active developers that are committing code to Drupal.

• The Drupal community provides support through the Drupal forums, online user groups, local user groups, and other online support. Commercial support is also available.

How Drupal does it...

• Willingness to try

• A web server

• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS if you want to build/edit your own theme.

• Knowledge of PHP is not necessary

What you need

• Read the Drupal Documentation - http://drupal.org/start

• Look at the installation Guide - http://drupal.org/documentation/install

• Setup a test site and add the devel module to create random content on your site.

Where to Start

demonstration

Sites built with drupal

grammy.com

michaeljackson.com

ericclapton.com

java.net

infoworld.com

twit.tv

linuxfoundation.org

whitehouse.gov

ed.gov

duke.edu

Text

tle.wisc.edu

bainbridge.wednet.edu

sd74.org