New to Drupal
Guides targeted towards first time users.
How to Install Drupal 7
Installing Drupal 7 is easy if you take it step by step. Use this guide to walk you through all the steps and get your Drupal 7 website up today!
tags: drupal 7,drupal 7 hosting,drupal 7 setup,how to install drupal 7,how to make a website with drupal 7
tags: drupal 7,drupal 7 hosting,drupal 7 setup,how to install drupal 7,how to make a website with drupal 7
| Drupal Version | 7.x |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |
How to Install A Drupal Module (The Correct Way)
This guide presents a beginners guide to installing or upgrading modules. Using this method makes it easy to keep track of which modules are installed and makes it easier to upgrade the Drupal core files.
tags: Drupal basics,install module
tags: Drupal basics,install module
| Drupal Version | All |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |
Quick reference guide to Drupal terminology
This quick reference guide defines the basic terminology used in Drupal including: Nodes, Blocks, Menus, Users, Roles, Modules and Taxonomy.
tags: Drupal basics,quick reference,terminology
tags: Drupal basics,quick reference,terminology
| Drupal Version | All |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |
A Beginner's Guide To Drupal
This very basic guide is intended to give beginning Drupal developers information to help them get started with the platform. This tutorial covers the following topics: a brief history of Drupal, what you can do with Drupal, getting started, the Drupal community, spam prevention and more.
tags: Drupal basics,why use Drupal?
tags: Drupal basics,why use Drupal?
| Drupal Version | All |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |
Easy Drupal Admin Manual (EDAM)
The Drupal admin manual is a very good introduction to administrating a Drupal site for non-technical users and people who are new to Drupal. It covers: administration tools, creating content, organising content and site maintenance.
tags: Drupal basics,handbook
tags: Drupal basics,handbook
| Drupal Version | All |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |
Why use Drupal?
This article explains why so many people use Drupal. This would be useful if you are trying to decide which content management system (CMS) you should use to launch your new website.
tags: why use Drupal?
tags: why use Drupal?
| Drupal Version | All |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |
Drupal taxonomy, Drupal nodes and other terms - what do they mean?
This guide explains some of the basic terminology and concepts that you will meet when using Drupal including: taxonomies, nodes, input formats and throttle.
tags: Drupal basics,node,taxonomy
tags: Drupal basics,node,taxonomy
| Drupal Version | All |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |
How to Install Drupal - Complete beginners guide
This is a comprehensive beginners guide to installing Drupal on your server or test server. It covers: Downloading and preparing the Drupal installation files, Setting up the mySQL database and Running the Drupal install program.
tags: installing Drupal
tags: installing Drupal
| Drupal Version | All |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Module | Other |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |
The Drupal Cookbook (for beginners)
This is an extremely useful guide, designed for beginners, which goes through all of the Drupal basics including: initial configuration, adding modules, adding themes, creating content and much more.
tags: Drupal basics
tags: Drupal basics
| Drupal Version | All |
| Category | New to Drupal |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Medium | Text |



