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What is Drupal? (For the absolute noob)

What is Drupal? (For the absolute noob)

This is a super simple presentation that outlines how Drupal operates in very general terms, designed to appeal to a non-technical audience with heavy usage of metaphors and personification.

John Serrao

May 10, 2011
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  1. Fields are like the LEGOs of your site l  All

    are different but they use a common structure to fit together
  2. Now You Have a Batmobile… l  The fields define the

    data structure for your content-types inside of your database
  3. Views fill the Regions with different sorts of data from

    your Content-types Drupal says, ‘These five items, sir’ Regions says, ‘Put it in the Right Sidebar Mr. Drupal’ Views asks Drupal, ‘Hey Drupal, What’s your most read content?”
  4. Blocks can also fill the Regions with static chunks of

    content Drupal says, ‘Here is the Tool Block.’ Regions again says, ‘Put it in the Right Sidebar Mr. Drupal’ Block just has its content ready to go, No need to ask Drupal, like Views did