In the first and second parts of this tutorial series, I showed you installing Drupal and doing initial configuration. In this video tutorial I peform the following tasks:
- Setting the length of trimmed posts to unlimited so that all the post/story content appears on the index page.
- Adding content i.e., creating a page and story.
- Adding specialized div, p, img etc. tags to the list of allowed HTML for filtered HTML so the attributes don’t get stripped out by Drupal. You can also see that I emptied the rows of cache_filter table so the changes take affect.
- Setting permissions to anonymous and registered users so we can control what modules are visible to whom via Access control.
- Adding a search form and Recent comments blocks to the right side bar.
- Changing the position of the above two blocks.
- Setting up the contact form and adding a link to it in the top right corner (Primary Links).
- Adding the categories I created in my previous screencast to the left side bar. I then moved Login box below the Navigation.
- Adding a link to the page in the page editing form itself.
- Putting a break statement so we can split a story via a Read more.
Video: [18.24 min long, 21 MB..so might take a while to load, have a cup of coffee after clicking on the image below and come back:)]
In the next part, I’ll show you how to add new modules, change themes and more.
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Tags: drupal, screencast
20 Jan 08
6:31 am
thank you very much, your series of screencast really helps me understand drupal, you’re right DRUPAL is the BEST CMS.. please give me your email add so i can contact you for future questions regarding drupal
20 Jan 08
8:54 am
David,
You can reach us via the CONTACT link that’s at the top.
08 Feb 08
10:43 pm
Hi,
Thank you for such a helpful series of videos to learn the Drupal from scratch.
I just started to learn Drupal by using your series.
04 May 08
3:55 pm
Hi
I am researching about the best CMS to start migrating from my current blogsite to a true website. I found lot of news about drupal, joomla, xoops and much more. But I beeen hearing good about drupla. I am technical Microsoft guy always did website on asp and .net. But you got lot of things to do get these blogs, forums from the scratch. But these CMS are real look with all inbuilt in it. Thats why il like about these stuff..
Thank you for putting a detail tut about drupal. I think I need to get started soo. May be you can set light on how to create thems and CSS templates or design page with graphics.. that would help a lot too..
Thanks
VIJAI
16 Jul 08
7:15 pm
That was a great article, thanks. =)