Tag: Drupal

Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 7: Installing Modules and Themes

Welcome to part 7 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6.  Previously we covered:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installing Drupal 6
Part 3: Configuring your Site
Part 4: Playing with Blocks
Part 5: Playing with Modules
Part 6: Playing with Themes

As we go through this tutorials I am building a Drupal resource site called Learn Drupal.  In the last tutorial we played with blocks and planned and started implementing the layout of our website.  So our website so far looks like this:

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In the last couple of posts we talked about modules and themes and learned how to enable the core modules and the themes that come with the default Drupal install.  Today we’re going to talk about installing and enabling contributed modules and themes so that we can extend the functionality of our website and have more options with what themes to use.

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Drupal 6 Social Networking – Book Review

drupal6snbigI have just finished going through the book Drupal 6 Social Networking, authored by Michael Peacock and published by PacktPub.  This is a book that anyone, whatever their level of proficiency in Drupal is, can use and appreciate.  Drupal 6 Social Networking shows you how you can use Drupal to create a social networking website where users can register, share information, and interact in various ways.

The one thing I appreciated the most about this book is how newbie-friendly it is.  I’m all about newbies on this blog because I know how crippling and confusing it can feel to be new at something, to hear words and wonder what they mean, to know that there’s a secret language there that you don’t get just yet.  Michael basically takes you by the hand and walks you through using Drupal in such a way that even if you’ve never heard of Drupal before, you’ll still be able to make good use of this book.  He doesn’t rush through the preliminaries, but explains everything from the install process, to the configuration, to what all the options in the admin settings mean, and how to change and configure them.

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Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 6: Playing with Themes

Welcome to part 6 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6.  Previously we covered:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installing Drupal 6
Part 3: Configuring your Site
Part 4: Playing with Blocks
Part 5: Playing with Modules

As we go through this tutorials I am building a Drupal resource site called Learn Drupal.  In the last tutorial we played with blocks and planned and started implementing the layout of our website.  So our website so far looks like this:

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We talked about site layout when we discussed blocks in part 4 of this series, and in part 5 we discussed functionality using modules.  The two main basic components left to consider are appearance, and content.  We will tackle the first of these two, appearance, in this post.

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Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 5: Playing with Modules

Welcome to part 5 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6.  Previously we covered:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installing Drupal 6
Part 3: Configuring your Site
Part 4: Playing with Blocks

As we go through this tutorials I am building a Drupal resource site called Learn Drupal.  In the last tutorial we played with blocks and planned and started implementing the layout of our website.  So our website so far looks like this:

(You can click on the images for larger views)

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In this post we are going to continue working on our site, building it and adding functionality to it. We know what we want our site to look like, and now we want to decide what functionality we want to have, and how to achieve our goals with modules.

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Building a Website with Drupal 6 – Part 4: Playing with Blocks

Welcome to part 4 of our tutorial on building a website with Drupal 6.  Previously we covered:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Installing Drupal 6
Part 3: Configuring your Site

As we go through this tutorials I am building a Drupal resource site called Learn Drupal.  So our website so far looks like this:

(You can click on the images for larger views)

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In the last post we did some site configuration, modified our footer, added a slogan and more.

In today’s post and over the next few posts we’re going to start build out site out, by looking through the options in the admin section of Site Building and laying out our site, adding sections, and adding functionality.

Today we get to play with blocks!

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