Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours

Hour 1. Using Drupal and the Twenty-First Century Web

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Introducing Drupal and Content Management Systems

• Learning to Talk CMS

• Getting Started with Drupal

Introduction

The beauty and power of the web are derived largely from the simplicity of its basic concepts. With minimal training, almost anyone can learn to put up a basic web page using HTML. And almost from the beginning, an enormous backlog of web pages to be done began growing. In the two decades since the web began, we’ve tried 0to tame that backlog with the usual technology tools: all of them are some variation on automation (templates, reusable components, style sheets, and the like). For a while, it seemed as if blogs with ...