Getting Started With Drupal Video Series

Beginners Guide To Drupal

If you're new to Drupal you'll probably also want to check out the new free pdf e-book called Building Your Blog With Drupal 7.

This guide is designed as a starting point for people who are new to Drupal. If you are new to Drupal I highly recommend that you start here. Updated January 2011

 

 

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Beginners Guide to Drupal

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learnbythedrop's picture
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 13:33.

Updated Beginner's Guide

The guide has been updated.

* Fixed a couple of typos and spelling errors.
* Added information about site statistics.
* Added information about keeping track of contributed modules.
* Added information about the Kaltura All-In-One Video module

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Submitted by Pieter (not verified) on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 08:51.

Hi there! Nice guide & really

Hi there! Nice guide & really love your tutorials!

Ps: You might want to change the sentence “The Drupal project was started in 2000 by a student in the Netherlands named Dries Buytaert.” into “The Drupal project was started in 2000 by a student in Belgium named Dries Buytaert.” dough.

In both countries they speak the Dutch-language. I presume that’s what got you confused.

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 09:11.

Netherlands To Belgium

Thanks for catching that mistake. I've been to both place and they're lovely. I will update it in the next version.

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 22:16.

Updated Guide

I made some updates to the document today.

* Corrected Dries' home to be Belgium.
* Added a few more Drupal books.

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Submitted by hakim (not verified) on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 06:11.

? Dead link

Drupal-school at http://theartlab.net/podcast/drupal-school seems to be just a lot of advertising, the domain listed as 'for sale'.

Thank for your efforts with the guide; this beginner is just beginning.

Hakim

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Mon, 01/19/2009 - 08:58.

Good Catch

It does look like the link is dead. I'm not sure what happened I Googled "Drupal School" and the best link I came up with for now is their video repository on Blip.tv at http://drupalschool.blip.tv/.

hakim's picture
Submitted by hakim (not verified) on Tue, 01/20/2009 - 03:53.

re Dead link

Thanks for that. I have bookmarked the BlipTV link in my growing Drupal folder.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 19:02.

Suggestions for learn by the drop

Hi,

While appreciating your efforts for this mammoth job of creating a site for learning drupal, i wish to suggest some ideas which would surely make this good site a better site.

1. You can add link for next step of any tutorial videos/Pdf's . Such as after going through the pdf beginners guide, i could not decide what do do next, you can kindly help people like me with a link << After beginners Guide >>.

2. You can also classify your information based on Drupal such as all links for contents, site building, themeing etc. These are available in your tag clouds which is easy for experts like you but new plumbers like me find it difficult.

3. You can also create an online stepwise project to create 4/5 different type of websites giving daywise tasks to users. This would help them learn faster and better.

My apology if my suggestions are undervaluing your noble efforts.

Thanks and wishes

Anonymous

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 21:07.

Thanks For Your Feedback

I do what I can in the time that I have available. I also do what I can to help people with specific issues such as, "what to do next." It's hard for me to follow up on things like that when you post anonymously though.

learnbythedrop's picture
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 13:32.

Updated Beginner's Guide To Drupal

Beginner's Guide To Drupal has been updated.

* Added a table of contents.
* Added a section on connecting with social networks.

learnbythedrop's picture
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 09/19/2009 - 14:47.

Updated Beginners Guide To Drupal

The Beginners Guide To Drupal has been updated.

* Corrected various minor grammatical and spelling errors.
* Added a note about affiliate links.
* Updated links to theming resources.
* Updated media section with info about the MP3 Player module.
* Updated information about hosted versions of Drupal.
* Added information about Drupal stack installers.

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 01/11/2010 - 18:34.

Thank you

Thank you for taking the time to put this project together.

Regards,

Robert M.

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Submitted by Gaye (not verified) on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 14:24.

Re: Beginner's Guide To Drupal

I liked the look of your site and wanted to download the Beginner's Guide to Drupal. Unable to download the Beginner's Guide to Drupal. Link is not correct. How can I get a copy?

learnbythedrop's picture
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sun, 08/29/2010 - 19:19.

Re: Beginner's Guide To Drupal

I'm not sure what the problem was for you. Perhaps you should try the download link again. I have tested the download link while logged out and it works for me.

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Submitted by ztank (not verified) on Thu, 09/30/2010 - 05:53.

Re: Beginner's Guide To Drupal

I have the same problem. Link is broken and gives 404 page not foun error...
ciao.

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Submitted by learnbythedrop on Sat, 10/02/2010 - 14:35.

Re: Beginner's Guide To Drupal

The following link, http://learnbythedrop.com/sites/default/files/Beginners%20Guide%20To%20D..., works for me when I'm logged out.

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Submitted by Damodar (not verified) on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 00:32.

Re: Beginner's Guide To Drupal

link is working, if you want download use mouse right click -> Save As...
Hari!:)

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Submitted by Ravi (not verified) on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 07:56.

Re: Beginners Guide To Drupal

Presented in a lucid style.
I found it useful.
Thank you!!

learnbythedrop's picture
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 21:57.

Updated Beginners Guide To Drupal

Many updates since it had been a long time.

* Added information to reflect Drupal 7 updates.
* Removed old links to abandoned modules and websites.
* Added references to newer Drupal modules.
* Expanded the list of hosted Drupal service providers.
* Fixed various minor typos.

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Submitted by Vienno on Mon, 11/28/2011 - 19:35.

Re: Beginners Guide To Drupal

Thanks for this wonderful tutorial! I am pretty new to Drupal and to the knowledge I've already had I added some really valuable points with this guide.

Regards,
Tomas Iflexion