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Welcome back to Introduction to Drupal. In this second part of the introduction tutorial, I'm going to talk a little bit more generally about Drupal and show you some websites that use Drupal. As I introduced in the first tutorial, the Drupal.org website has a wealth of information about the actual content-management platform Framework and this is where you go to actually download the open-source software to run your Drupal sites. I also mentioned that there are other sites that have a wealth of resources on Drupal, including the Lullabot.com site and you'll definitely want to check out Lullabot and they post a lot of tutorials and articles in the Articles and Blog section. For example, this Future of Form Building in Drupal. Here's a tutorial that you could follow and read. So they're very active in posting tutorials and articles about Drupal. Some other websites that use Drupal, pretty far and wide as far as the different genres of sites that use Drupal. Lots of non-profit organization use it, educational institutions both public education and academic, higher-education institutions, non-profits and company websites. For example, the Origami USA website. This is built with Drupal and this is the national United States non-profit organization for origami paper folding enthusiasts and this site is built with Drupal. It's got a header area with a search module functionality so you can search the site by keywords and it has this nice drop-down navigation menu. This is all built with Drupal. It has this wide-screen image which actually when you refresh the browser it rotates the image to a different one. And then it has content of course and websites are built with lots of content. This has some introductory content here with links to various parts of the site. A hot news ticker that gets updated when they post news items and then sort of ad-type treatments that link to various sections of the site. And they do online event registration with this website and they actually have an online e-commerce shop as well. So you know, you can do all of that with Drupal. Additionally, The Onion newspaper, America's finest news source, is built with Drupal. This is a long-running site with the Drupal web application and it's, Drupal is used by many newspaper and magazine organizations to populate their sites with content because it's, again, it's open source and free for those organizations to use but also very, very modular and very good application to use to build newspaper sites. The Ubuntu Linux homepage for everything Ubuntu related. This is built with Drupal. Again, nice drop-down navigation system and a search box and a nice ad treatment here and lots of content on the site. Again, a Drupal site. Hop over here to another site which is another non-profit organization, the Vintage Aviator or actually I should say this is probably a for-profit company, Constructors of Military Aircraft. This site is built with Drupal as well and as you can see, it's a very visually-friendly, dynamic image site and they have links to various image gallery type of content with sort of vintage-looking, dated-looking design, you know, with the images with the photo holders there. This is all done with CSS and Drupal theming. But again, very nice treatments with images and visual treatments on this site. Lots of Cascading Style Sheets being used. Lots of html integrated with the Drupal site. But overall, the overall content-management Framework behind this is Drupal. And then you can find lots of information actually about this project on the web. They posted some site builds about how they built it since it was so heavy with the theming. And then over here there's the Sony MyPlay website; another company that's using Drupal to distribute multimedia. Lots of multimedia and music. And again, big, big time company using an open-source product to do their website. And the Lullabot team has had a lot to do actually with this site doing some of the build and some of the construction of the site. Ann Arbor Public Library. They do their main public library site with the Drupal content-management system. So again, there are lots of websites out there that are using Drupal. In fact, the Ann Arbor site uses their, uses Drupal to do parts of the library catalog as well, searching by keyword in the catalog and browsing the new fiction books and non-fiction books. This is all Drupal. So again, lots of websites use Drupal out there, both non-profit, profit and other types of institutions. So have a look at the variety of sites out there.
| Course: | Introduction to Drupal 6 |
| Author: | Trevor James |
| SKU: | 33992 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-43-2 |
| Release Date: | 2009-05-01 |
| Duration: | 11.5 hrs / 114 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |