1. Introduction
to Drupal
By Vaibhav Jain
Tekriti Software
15th September’12

2. Agenda ..?
 What is a CMS
 What is Drupal and Why
 Drupal over other CMS
 Installing Drupal
 How Drupal Works
 Drupal Terminology
 Work Flow

3. What is a CMS
 Tools for authoring, publishing and managing content on the
site.
 Administrative interface
 User management
 Security framework
 Web2.0 capable
 Content categorization (tagging)
 E commerce ready

4. Why Drupal
 Free & Open Source
 Drupal Community
Lots of modules and themes
 Drupal features
Clean, Extensible, Modular code
High Performance
SEO friendly
Meet Security Standards (set by US government agencies)

5. What is Drupal ?
 Written in PHP
 Simple and flexible
 Extendable and acts like a Framework
 18k + modules, and ~1500 Themes
 Used by White house, Twitter API, India Data
portal, Commonwealth games and many more…

6. Drupal over other CMS
Advanced URL Control Page titles and meta
Custom Content types tags
and views Excellent
Revision control Documentation
Taxonomy PHP Template
User management Drupal Cookbooks
Large and friendly
Community

7. Installing
Drupal

8. How Drupal
Works ?

9. Content Types
 Content types
Article
Basic page
 Field API, Part of core (Formerly CCK)
File field
Image field
Integer, text, varchar, boolean

13. Site
Building
with Drupal

14. Thank You