Drush
TopicDrush is a command line interface that enables you to interact with your Drupal site without clicking around the graphical user interface (GUI).
Fields and the Field API
TopicFields are the building blocks of Drupal's powerful content modeling system. The Field API allows for the development of custom field types to suit almost any data display and collection needs.
Many sites require the ability to upload, manage, and display various assets like files, images, videos, and audio.
Menus
TopicA site’s main navigation elements, whether they be in the header, footer, or sidebar, are composed of links built using Drupal's menu system. Drupal allows site administrators to build menus while also allowing module developers to add and alter menus in code.
Multilingual Sites
TopicA multilingual site has more than 1 language that users interact with, either through the content, the user interface, or both.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your online content, so that your content will rank higher in organic (non-paid) search engine results.
Learn about Drupal’s configuration system and how to manage configuration with both the administrative user interface and command-line tools.
Blocks
TopicA block is a reusable widget that is placed inside regions (layout containers) of your theme. Blocks can be used by site administrators on the Block layout admin page or provided by a module using the Plugin API.
Contributing to Drupal
TopicAs an open source project, Drupal depends on community contributions in many forms including documentation, code, translation, speaking, organizing events, mentoring others, and even donating money.
The process for keeping Drupal core and contributed modules and themes up to date with the latest security and minor version releases.
In order to run a Drupal site, the web server you are using must meet minimum technical requirements.
In this series, Ben Finklea of Volacci.com explains all the ins and outs of configuring Drupal and its various modules in order to maximize your site's Search Engine Optimization.
Ben begins by orienting you to the SEO landscape by walking through all of the essential components of the Drupal SEO Checklist module. He clearly explains the basic analytic metrics and webmaster tools you'll need to understand before researching the best keywords to focus on for your SEO campaign. He walks you through various Drupal modules you can use to manage your page titles, automatic URLs, meta tags, URL redirects, sitemaps and optimizations for local businesses. He also shows you how to configure built-in Drupal settings to properly set up your header tags, content silos, menu system, robots.txt and Apache rewrite rules. He also talks about how to measure your site's compliance and performance before laying out the next steps for your SEO campaign to maximize your site's conversion rates.
This series shows how Drupal is one of the best content management platforms for SEO. After watching the videos in this series, you'll know all of the steps you need to take to improve your site's search engine ranking!
Reviews all of the material covered in the Drupal SEO video series.
Goes over the different sections contained within the SEO Checklist module, which is a roadmap for all of the different steps that we will be going into more depth over the course of this video.
Goes through the process of setting up Google Analytics on your Drupal site with the help of some modules, and shows how to confirm that it is set up properly.
Goes over the different analytical sections and major configuration options available in Google's Webmaster Tools.
Goes through the process of researching keywords using Google's Adwords Keyword Tool, and shows you some best practices in gathering and evaluating those keywords within a spreadsheet.
Goes through the hierarchy of what's the highest weighting starting from the top of the browser window with the title page, and then moving down to the URL and then down into the actual web page.
Shows how you can override and customize the page titles that are created for an individual node so that you can more closely target specific SEO keywords.