2011 Yale Drupal Camp Presentation: You have a new drupal site and are the drupal admin, what now?
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You can see the video at http://blip.tv/rvtc/2011-yale-drupal-group-5486561
I broke up the sections into chapters so you can jump around.
Here are some of the moduels covered. Also a video below on how to install a module.
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Modules |
D6 |
D7 |
User Level (easy, med, hard) |
Link |
notes |
| Webform | Y | Y | Click Here | Great module for forms and surveys etc. | |
| Backup Migrate | Y | medium | Click Here | Great way to backup your sites database | |
| Admin Role | Y | easy | |||
| Poormans Cron | Y | easy | Click Here | easy way to setup drupal to run the hourly tasks it needs to run. | |
| Better Formats | Y | M | Click Here | so your default node is FULL not filtered for the right usrs. | |
| Views Bulk Operations | Y | H | Click Here | Best tool to setup your content managment area. | |
| Reports | Y | Y | E | Comes with drupal enable database logging module | |
| Form Filter | Y | N | M | Click Here | Great way to make it easier for staff to edit and add content to the site. |
| Views Bulk Operations for Users | Y | H | see above | add more features to the user managment area. |
Installing a drupal module
1. Find it.
2. Download it local
3. Unzip/Tar it
4. Upload it to sites/all/modules (you may need to make the folders all and modules
You can see a video here
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Not counting my Commodore 64 years, I began my IT career when Windows 95 hit the scene and Google was just a glimmer on the Californian horizon. I discovered Drupal four years ago when it was giving Joomla a run for its money.
At the time, I was working as the IT manager at the National Priorities Project (NPP). We were using Joolma and getting about 200,000 visitors a month and the site was not scaling well. I saw the limits of Joomla and the promise of Drupal 4 with its taxonomy system, clean urls, and security features. I converted NPP to Drupal and migrated their main database, http://nationalpriorities.org/nppdatabase_tool, from webobjects to a Drupal-friendly structure in MySQL. Still not satisfied, I moved NPP’s constituent data (including their 25,000 member email list) out of the expensive Raiser's Edge and into the free and open source CiviCRM 1.8, saving the company money that it was spending on their desktop software.
Thus began my commitment to supporting non-profits by creating affordable, custom-built content management systems in Drupal and CiviCRM. I founded River Valley Tech Collective as a collaborative team of other like-minded techies to provide Drupal-driven sites to a wider range of non-profits, educational institutions and local community organizations.
