Overview of Drupal licensing and the guidelines to be followed by users and contributors.
Overview of modules and the functionality they can be used for.
Overview of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), Drupal project, and Drupal Association.
Overview of the User 1 account, also known as the root account or administrative account.
Overview of user accounts, permissions, and roles.
How to assign authorship of content items to a user account.
Overview of views and the data that can be displayed or output by them.
Overview of the administrative parts of a view.
How to set up a development site using DDEV, a local development environment for PHP applications.
What Is Drupal?
FreeTo learn more about how to get started with Drupal, also see our Introduction to Drupal guide.
In this lesson we take a look at Drupal, the open source Content Management System. We learn about the major components of a Drupal site and the library of constantly evolving tools available for working with Drupal. We find out how to see who uses it, by looking at DrupalShowcase.com and Drupal case studies on Drupal.org, among others. We look at Drupal's major features, such as Modules.
With this overview we have some context as we move forward into the series.
Additional resources
Drupal is a great tool for working on the web, but to give it some context, in this lesson we're going to take a quick step back in time, and understand the history of working on the web and look at how the tools that Drupal provides match up with problems encountered over the years of web development.