Drupal Beginner Resources
Submitted by jwalling on Mon, 09/14/2009 - 20:32
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Reasons to choose Drupal
- http://acquia.com/files/acquia-drupal-top-10.pdf 10 Reasons to choose Drupal (PDF file)
- http://drupal.org/features Drupal features
- http://drupal.org/node/468226 Drupal sites win Horizon Interactive Awards
- http://pingv.com/videos/1/what-drupal-57-seconds What is Drupal? ... in 57 seconds
- http://think.workatplay.com/content/how-convince-your-boss-why-drupal-be... How to convince your boss
- http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/gartner-calls-drupal-a-visionary-in-s...
- http://www.lullabot.com/articles/bringing-drupal-us-government The Government uses Drupal
- http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/10/prweb1552274.htm Drupal wins Open Source CMS Awards
Local Drupal groups and events
- http://groups.drupal.org/events Calendar of Drupal events
- http://groups.drupal.org/groups Group type = Geographical
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/26998 Drupal local groups directory
- http://groups.drupal.org/seattle Seattle meetings and mailing list
- http://pnwdrupalsummit.org/ PNW Summit October 24-25, 2009 Seattle
General Drupal resources for beginners
- http://drupal.org/books Books about Drupal
- http://drupal.org/forum forum
- http://drupal.org/getting-started Getting started
- http://drupal.org/getting-started/6/install/multi-site Run multiple sites from the same code base (multi-site)
- http://drupal.org/getting-started/before/terminology Terminology
- http://drupal.org/getting-started/project-features Features, mission, and principles
- http://drupal.org/handbooks Handbooks
- http://drupal.org/node/302232 Acronyms and expressions used on Drupal.org
- http://drupal.org/planet/ news aggregator for the Drupal blogosphere
- http://drupal.org/project/Modules where all the contributed modules live
- http://drupal.org/search/node search options
- http://drupal.org/support support portal
- http://drupalmodules.com/module-finder tools for finding that special module
- http://mydrupal.com/how_to/beginners_corner Beginner's corner
- http://poplarclass.com/agenda a detailed agenda for a beginner training class
- http://poplarware.com/drupalcheatsheet.html a concise overview of what you need to get started
- http://searchdrupal.org/ several search criteria for Drupal resources
- http://www.drupalace.com/drupal-for-beginners is Drupal right for you?
- http://www.tomgeller.com/content/helping-drupal-beginners Helping Drupal beginners - overview
Drupal tutorials
- http://woorkup.com/2009/11/10/how-to-build-a-social-networking-website-w... Social network
- http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/302 (D5) From the client's spreadsheet data to browseable content
- http://drupaldaze.com/presentations/introduction-cck introduction to CCK
- http://drupalpad.maryspad.com/node/4 - Drupal 6 Tutorials in 9 parts
- http://drupaltutorials.com/books/intro-drupal beginner's guide to installing and configuring Drupal.
- http://jamestombs.co.uk/2009-03-18/create-a-simple-image-gallery-in-drup...
- http://learnbythedrop.com/beginners-guide-to-drupal browse iPaper or download pdf file
- http://mogdesign.eu/blog/ultimate-drupal-tutorial-collection/ a large collection of tutorial links
- http://tips.webdesign10.com/drupal-tutorials Drupal tutorials
- http://www.drupalace.com/EDAM Easy Drupal Admin Manual (EDAM)
Drupal Dojo, Open Learning & Collaboration Portal
- http://drupaldojo.com/ scheduled online presentations of Drupal topics
- http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-dojo where Drupaleers share ideas for Drupal Dojo
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/15953 Open learning and collaboration portal
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/16366 Drupal Dojo Fall/Winter lineup 2009
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/17810 Dojo's Dimdim
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/18213 Drupal Media Sessions - Usually Tuesdays @ 3:30pm EST - a one hour session over Dimdim
How-to videos, screencasts, podcasts, and slideshows
- http://drupal.org/videocasts/installing-6 installing Drupal 6, the current version
- http://geeksandgod.connectedgeek.net/content/free-drupal-theme-workshop-... Drupal themeing in 3 parts
- http://gotdrupal.com/ A number of how-to videos for various aspects of Drupal
- http://gotdrupal.com/category/skill-level/beginner 17 beginner video topics
- http://gotdrupal.com/videos/drupal-theme-makeover Drupal theme makeover
- http://learnbythedrop.com/drop/22 Introduction to Views
- http://learnbythedrop.com/gettingstarted Getting Started with Drupal in 15 lessons
- http://mogdesign.eu/blog/ultimate-drupal-tutorial-collection/ a collection of videos and podcast links
- http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast 36 video topics
- http://mydrupal.com/drupal-beginner-videos-basics 20+ Drupal Videos for Beginners
- http://php.opensourcecms.com/free/videos.php#drupal 14 basic videos
- http://www.archive.org/ Search for Drupal video topics
- http://www.drupaltherapy.com/ Several helpful videos for getting started
- http://www.drupaltherapy.com/screencasts 5 screencasts
- http://www.lullabot.com/ Videos, podcasts, and more
- http://www.slideshare.net/ search for drupal, over 1700 slideshow topics
- http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Drupal 1700+ Drupal videos
- http://www.zivtech.com/videos/drupal-video-planet beginner topics mixed in with advanced topics
Theme resources
- http://design.acquia.com/theme-providers rated theme providers
- http://www.drupal.org/project/Themes download free themes for your style and layout
- http://www.drupalthemesonly.com/ free themes
- http://www.mogdesign.eu/blog/21-fresh-stunning-drupal-themes/ free themes with demos
- http://www.roopletheme.com/ Commercial themes, demos/handbooks/downloads
- http://www.themebot.com/free-website-templates/drupal-themes free themes
- http://www.themegarden.org/drupal6/ free themes, click a theme link on the left side for demos
- http://www.themesfor5.com/ $5 themes
- http://www.themeshark.com/ Commercial themes
- http://www.themesnap.com/drupal-themes.html Commercial themes
- http://www.topnotchthemes.com/ Commercial themes,
Drupal online IRC resources
- http://groups.drupal.org/node/19491 /join #drupal-seattle, an IRC channel at irc.freenode.net
- http://drupal.org/irc Drupal IRC channels
Drupal demos
- http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/details.php?scriptid=191&name=Drupal
Drupal tips, tricks and FAQs
- http://drupaleasy.com/quicktips/exporting-data-microsoft-excel export data to Excel
- http://drupaleasy.com/quicktips/forgotten-password-reset-it-using-phpmya... Reset password with phpMyAdmin
- http://metaltoad.com/blog/drupal-access-denied-all-pages Drupal 'Access Denied' on all pages
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/drupal 496 questions tagged with drupal
- http://www.drupalace.com/questionbank Question bank
- http://www.juliakm.com/how-move-drupal-site-new-host-without-going-crazy Move a Drupal Site to a New Host
- http://www.powerfulcms.com/blog/0906/5-common-drupal-mistakes-you-can-avoid common mistakes you can avoid
- http://www.powerfulcms.com/blog/0908/some-common-drupal-%E2%80%9Cproblem... common problems
Hiring Drupal designers and developers
- http://drupal.org/drupal-services Directory of Drupal service providers
- http://drupal.org/node/51169 Hiring a Drupal site developer
- http://drupal.org/paid-services Paid Drupal services in the Drupal Forums
- http://groups.drupal.org/jobs Drupal jobs
- http://www.nten.org/blog/2007/11/19/how-to-find-and-hire-a-website-consu...
Is it Drupal?
- http://www.adulmec.com/drupaldetect/ Drupal detector - lists tests with results
- http://isthissitebuiltwithdrupal.com/ Is this site built with Drupal? - YES or NO
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10229 Wappalyzer - FireFox Addon
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