[SOLVED] Drupal

geyids

hey anyone know about this Drupal thing?

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alexgeek

A little bit, a very powerful and complex CMS.

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Monie

and it's FREE!

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geyids

CMS??? what does that do? is it recommended for what it does?

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Monie

CMS - Content Management System

They don't do anything. They are just a way of managing your sites that have the CRUD (Create/Read/Update/Delete) capabilities.

Wikipedia: What is CMS?

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welshstew

Drupal is a very powerful CMS for you website. I have used it in that past and you can get some great results very quickly.

It has loads of plugins to add to your site, and as such you can do almost anything with it, forum, blog, etc. It uses Smarty PHP code as the back end and therefore customisation rrequires learning this. However, the look and feel of the site is controlled by CSS so you can make it look how you want with little to no effort.

this is a very very basic drupal site: http://dreams.snow-surf-skate-tboard.com/ (only the header was updated)
this is a more complicated site: http://crockett.mepemepe.com/

As with all of these CMS's there is a great support group and a number of Drupal Ninja's who contribute themes, plugins etc.

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geyids

soo cool. i will try it since i have a web server in my comp. here is one too for drupal http://portableapps.com/

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sekuchi

How about joomla? It's also a powerful CMS...

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webgal

I like Drupal better than Joomla. Joomla indexes poorly in searches. At least that's my experience. People do great things with it but I just don't care for it.

If your host has fantastico, you can download each of them if you have two mysql databases and see which one you like. Manipulating the theme can get hairy with php. So it's best to start with a template where the layout of elements is the way you like, then work from there.

If you do download both, make sure they go in separate folders.