This document provides an introduction to the content management system Drupal. It explains that Drupal is used to build websites and discusses two approaches to setting up a Drupal site - using a script or profile. The document demonstrates these two approaches and also covers installing a feature called the GT Editor on a Drupal site.

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2. What the heck is Drupal?
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3. Why this matters to YOU
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4. Script vs. Profile
• Script = go get stuff & make
some folders (assumes OIT
hosting), includes SubTheme.
• Profile = Set up Drupal the
“right” way
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5. Script Demo HERE
• Suggestions??
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6. Profile Demo HERE
• Suggestions??
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7. GT Editor (a Feature)
• WYSIWYG Filter
• IMCE & Linkit
• Menus & other Stuff
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8. GT Editor Demo HERE
• Suggestions??
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pure undiluted coincidence. It is IN NO WAY exaggerated, over-sold or
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This presentation and all comments, jokes, asides, cabbages, examples,
etc. expressed therein are of my own making and in no way represent the
policy or opinions of the Georgia Institute of Technology, any other USG
employee, my sentient personal computing devices, Starfleet Command,
my adorable dog Jasper, or any other terrestrial or extraterrestrial Entity (not
THAT kind of entity!).
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10. Standard AdelleFrank.com DISCLAIMER
This material is for entertainment and recreational purposes only, and any
accidental learning or instruction that occurs is outside of its scope and may
not be prosecuted. Any resemblance to infomercials, real or imagined, is
pure undiluted coincidence. It is IN NO WAY exaggerated, over-sold or
subject to hyperbolic disproportionalism. May be too intense for some
viewers.
This presentation and all comments, jokes, asides, cabbages, examples,
etc. expressed therein are of my own making and in no way represent the
policy or opinions of the Georgia Institute of Technology, any other USG
employee, my sentient personal computing devices, Starfleet Command,
my adorable dog Jasper, or any other terrestrial or extraterrestrial Entity (not
THAT kind of entity!).
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