Basic Site Configuration
Submitted by learnbythedrop on Mon, 01/05/2009 - 21:26
Lesson Two of my special Getting Started With Drupal series of instructional videos.
This video explores the basic configuration options to consider once you have successfully installed Drupal.
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Embedding bliptv works great, had no problems watching this time. Looking forward to the theming video.
I am enjoying your tutorials and have been getting a lot out of them. It took me a while to find them and your first one saved my bacon on getting a basic site up and running locally to begin my learning process. My challenge is that I am a novice and not a programmer. That challenge became more evident with respect to a lot of Drupal documentation. It was over my head many times. I read through most of it on the Drupal Site basic level and found myself being overwhelmed and lost. Not to mention, I was bouncing all over the place.
The second is the abundance of learning tutorials out there that are not in any order and of course the listings are not always for the most recent version of Drupal. Thank you for having yours up to speed.
I finally got smart and started Goggling for your lessons by the numbers, 1, 2, 3, etc, to have a progression for ease of learning. This worked somewhat but is not always correct either. Lesson Five came up as lesson eight. It would be nice if you could have a progression of your tutorials for the novices listed on your site, beginning with lesson 1 and on up. It would help those of us in my position as novices and starting out from scratch in this Drupal world and needing a progressive learning approach.
Finally, is there something that you can do to make the videos clear when we put them in full screen? They are not always very clear in the full screen mode and sometimes pretty hard to read. The small screen doesn't lend itself to reading lot of the screen shot at all. Additionally, when you occasionally zoom in on a shot, it is in too tight and I can't see all that you are talking about. The discussion leads to items just out of sight beyond the screen edge. I think your content and manner of speaking for the presentation is great, but some of the video is hurting your presentation quality.
Thank you for what you are doing and for your assistance in my learning Drupal.
Lilbird
Thanks for taking the time to provide some feedback. Here are some responses that hopefully will help to make things clearer.
"It would be nice if you could have a progression of your tutorials"
The Getting Started With Drupal Series follow a defined progression and the best way to follow that is to bookmark the page at http://learnbythedrop.com/gettingstarted where those lessons are listed in order from top to bottom. The other video lessons are really in no particular order. I just think a particular video is a good idea and I record it.
"Finally, is there something that you can do to make the videos clear when we put them in full screen?"
The free embedded and QuickTime downloadable versions of the videos (for the most part) are encoded at 480X320 resolution which is geared toward the iPhone or iPod Touch. The largest, sharpest versions of the lessons are the premium versions which have the same resolution as the original recording (usually 1024x768) and can be purchased individually for $2.99.
Thanks Rob, I found the list at the link you provided, (http://learnbythedrop.com/gettingstarted). This was just what I had been looking for.
I would suggest you put a link to this particular page on your Home page or even put the list itself there. I searched several ways throughout your site after you gave me the link and never got a hit on this page. Having this sooner would have been a big assist to me in searching your out your progressive lessons. You have a great progression of videos that is a big assist to the us novices and I would like to see you be even more popular among that group.
Thank You Again!
Lilbird
thank you !
Hi, I'm a noob and have been going step by step with you, after install, on my admin page I get a status report error:
HTTP request status Fails
Your system or network configuration does not allow Drupal to access web pages, resulting in reduced functionality. This could be due to your webserver configuration or PHP settings, and should be resolved in order to download information about available updates, fetch aggregator feeds, sign in via OpenID, or use other network-dependent services.
I'm having trouble resolving this.
Win xp pro sp3
drupal 6.12
wampServer Version 2.0 Bundle included the following:
PHP 5.2.9-2
Apache 2.2.11
MySQL 5.1.33
This is most likely a conflict with something else that is running or installed. SQL Server can cause problems running Wampserver. So can aggressive firewall software I believe. The Wampserver forums are really the best place to get help with these types of problems.
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