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A Brief History of Content Management

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    [Using Drupal - Drupal Overview] [A Brief History of Content Management with Addison Berry]
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    [Addison Berry] Drupal is a great tool for working on the Web.
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    But to get a little bit of perspective, we're going to take a little bit of a step back in time.
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    In this lesson we're going to review a little bit of the basics
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    of content management and Web history
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    so we can sort of see what has progressed, what changes have gone into place,
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    and then we're going to look at what problems have been encountered
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    and where parts of Drupal help us address the problems that we've historically had
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    when it comes to building websites.
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    Let's take a little journey back in time.

Using Drupal Chapter 1: Drupal Overview

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A Brief History of Content Management

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8 minutes 40 seconds // Drupal 7 // HDCC //

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.

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Using Drupal, 2nd edition

Drupalize.Me Guide: Using Drupal Book by O'Reilly Media