Drupal basics

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.

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This quick reference guide defines the basic terminology used in Drupal including: Nodes, Blocks, Menus, Users, Roles, Modules and Taxonomy.

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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.

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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.

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This is an introduction to blocks in Drupal. Blocks allow you to display content in different areas of the screen and can be used to customise the look of your site. This guide explains the basics of using and customising blocks in Drupal.

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This guide explains some of the basic terminology and concepts that you will meet when using Drupal including: taxonomies, nodes, input formats and throttle.

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This comprehensive tutorial covers nearly every aspect of the Drupal menu system. From a basic overview of the menu system, the guide goes on to cover some of the more advanced features including: access control and the hook_menu function.

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This guide details how to set up a simple forum on a Drupal site and how to style your new forum using CSS. This guide also includes useful links to related resources.

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This is a comprehensive screen cast introduction to Views2 for Drupal 6.x. This guide highlights the key differences between Views and Views2 and providing a useful introduction to the principles behind the Views2 module and to the new AJAX interface.

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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.

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