introduction to drupal cms
DESCRIPTION
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.TRANSCRIPT
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: [email protected]