Drupalcon notes: Getting Started with Drupal(con)

  • Overall introduction. What drupal is, who's using it. Extensibility, roles
  • Drupal as a community
  • Drupal jargon: nodes, CCK = 'fields' in D7, Views, themes, menus, taxonomy, menus, permissions, roles, hooks, cron, druplipet
  • How does drupal work?  Description of the stack, starting with OS -> web server -> PHP/database -> Drupal -> core subsystem -> cor modules -> contrib modules -> theme system -> HTML -> CSS/Javascript
  • Discussion of CCK and taxonomy
  • Reusable content: do less and accomplish more. Reduce workload, reuse content, recycle your ideas in new places and different ways
  • RDFa is part of drupal 7
  • Core and contrib modules are available to enhance SEO
  • I19N
  • AMP stack = Apache / MySQL / PHP
  • DAMP stack = that + drupal
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