SDC 2011 Resources
Seattle Drupal Clinic 2011 Resources and notes
(examples: http://poplarclass.com/resources-2010 ; http://poplarclass.com/resources-spokane-2011 )
Setup Webenabled.com trial account and install Drupal 7
- Go to WebEnabled.com and click Sign Up
- Click the Trial Plan link (tiny text beneath Shared Developer Hosting Plans) and Create an account
- Once logged in to your new account, click the Overview tab; then click Start a Site
- Find Drupal 7.8, click Select this app to install, and refer to the following for the fields
- Site Name: [the name of your new website. anything is fine]
- Folder: [any word is fine, letters only, no spaces or numbers]
- Shell Username: [anything is fine, but write it down]
- App admin password: [anything is fine, but write it down]
- Click Create my new site
- Open your email and wait for the WebEnabled: Your Drupal login information email to arrive.
- Click the top link to access your new drupal site:
- Login with username: "admin" and password: [the App admin password you entered above].
- Your ready for Seattle Drupal Clinic!
Download a bundle of 20 photos you'll need during the site build
Optional: Install Drupal 7 on your laptop
- http://drupal.org/documentation/install Installation guide
- http://drupal.org/download Download Drupal 7.x
- http://www.tutr.tv/t295 Install Drupal 7 locally on your computer (video) installing MAMP,(Mac Apache MySQL PHP)
- http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html Download: XAMPP Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris
- http://www.mamp.info/ MAMP Download: Install Apache, PHP and MySQL with few clicks under Mac OS X
- http://www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix/ Download: Microsoft Web Platform Installer (WebMatrix)
- http://www.microsoft.com/web/drupal/ Download: Microsoft WebMatrix and Drupal installer
- http://www.lullabot.com/videos/install-local-web-server-mac-osx How to: Mac OSX Local web server
- http://www.lullabot.com/videos/install-local-web-server-ubuntu How to: Ubuntu Local web server
- http://www.lullabot.com/videos/install-local-web-server-windows-xp How to: Windows XP Local web server
Optional: Install Drupal 7 on a web host (not WebEnabled)
- http://drupal.org/download Download Drupal 7.x
- http://filezilla-project.org/ FileZilla - FTP client
- http://www.tutr.tv/t296 Install Drupal 7 on a live web host (video)
Resources to continue learning Drupal
- Drupal documentation: http://drupal.org/documentation
- Drupal download: http://drupal.org/download
- Drupal community: http://drupal.org/community
- Seattle Drupal User Group: http://groups.drupal.org/seattle ; @seadug ; meets 3rd Thursdays at 6pm
- Beginner resources BIG list: http://www.listology.com/jwalling/list/drupal-beginner-resources
- Drupal Learning Library: http://nodeone.se/learn-drupal
- IRC: http://drupal.org/irc ; http://drupal.org/irc/channels ;
irc://freenode/drupal-seattle(Copy/paste to FireFox with ChatZilla extension installed or follow directions for your IRC client for#drupal-seattleonfreenode.net.)