Drupal is a free content management system that allows users or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal has become very popular, and is used by tens of thousands of people and organizations, such as: community web portals, discussion sites, corporate web sites, intranet applications, personal web sites or blogs, aficionado sites, e-commerce applications, resource directories, and social networking sites.

If you’ve been considering installing a CMS to help manage your content, Drupal is a good choice. Sams teach yourself Drupal in 24 hours can be a be help, but If you are new to Web design, HTML, PHP or Web server management, this book is not for you.

The first chapters describe Drupal and help you install it. Then you learn about administering Drupal and using nodes. Chapters on managing URLs, users, and the site as a whole. You will learn to add polls, comments, blogs, newsletters, contact forms, and calendars. Modify the site look with themes, blocks, panels and pages.

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