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CONTENTS OF THIS FILE--------------------- * About Drupal * Configuration and features * Installation profiles * Appearance * Developing for DrupalABOUT DRUPAL------------Drupal is an open source content management platform supporting a variety ofwebsites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. Formore information, see the Drupal website at and join theDrupal community at information about Drupal: * Know your rights when using Drupal: See LICENSE.txt in the same directory as this document. * Learn about the Drupal trademark and logo policy: AND FEATURES--------------------------Drupal core (what you get when you download and extract a drupal-x.y.tar.gz ordrupal-x.y.zip file from has what you need toget started with your website. It includes several modules (extensions that addfunctionality) for common website features, such as managing content, useraccounts, image uploading, and search. Core comes with many options that allowsite-specific configuration. In addition to the core modules, there arethousands of contributed modules (for functionality not included with Drupalcore) available for download.More about configuration: * Install, upgrade, and maintain Drupal: See INSTALL.txt and UPGRADE.txt in the same directory as this document. * Learn about how to use Drupal to create your site: * Download contributed modules to sites/all/modules to extend Drupal's functionality: * See also: "Developing for Drupal" for writing your own modules, below.INSTALLATION PROFILES---------------------Installation profiles define additional steps (such as enabling modules,defining content types, etc.) that run after the base installation providedby core when Drupal is first installed. There are two basic installationprofiles provided with Drupal core.Installation profiles from the Drupal community modify the installation processto provide a

Drupal themes consist of PHP and web standards (CSS and HTML). You can use PHP with Drupal API and make Drupal theme without templates. Those who prefer markup can take advantage of templates within a theme folder when no custom code necessary. Such templates are known as TPL files because of their .tpl or .tpl.php file extensions.You can install and run several themes at once with Drupal. Thus, one theme will be for administrators while the other is for site members. It is quite convenient in case you try to install new themes and want to prevent unintentional lock-outs from your site.In short, Drupal is a mix of styles, graphics and templates. Note that templates use CSS, XHTML and some PHP. Each theme has so called regions that define areas of a page structure with tags. Drupal add content to these regions. In case you have already used server-side includes for headers and footers of a web page you know what Drupal does with each region. The other important terms are nodes and blocks. Nodes are pages of content (news articles, blog posts, etc.) while blocks are secondary content that as a rule appears in the right of left sidebar columns (lists of articles, a new poll, etc.)Do Your Best of Drupal Themes with DreamweaverBy default, Dreamweaver can edit any Drupal theme template that ends in .tpl.php. However, Dreamweaver can’t support the Drupal API or other custom file types (such as .info and .module) used by Drupal for themes and modules. To avoid such a problem you can use this free Dreamweaver extensionDreamweaver allows you to apply and modify styles efficiently while working with various Drupal templates. Just use Design Time Stylesheets feature that is located in the secondary menu of the CSS Styles panel. Each template should have a design-time link to each style sheet used by your theme. You can read more about it in the Dreamweaver help documentation about Design Time Stylesheets.Each theme requires .info file with meta information for a theme such as the theme name, style sheets, description and regions. This .info file is a simple text file that is packaged with each Drupal theme to recognize. Drupal will not display your theme in the administration area without this .info file. Here is the sample of a Drupal theme folder called Garland.Drupal .info fileThe example of the Garland theme files displayed above shows style sheets,

Drupal 6 compresses all the CSS and JavaScript files into single include file.Installing new Drupal themesAfter you have done all the changes in your Drupal theme now you need to upload it to Drupal. Thus, you have at least page.tpl.php, node.tpl.php, and block.tpl.php files in your theme folder. And of course don’t forget about the required .info file that defines your theme. As we have already noted above you should never modify any core Drupal files, because all the changes will be lost the next time you update Drupal.Go to your Drupal 6 installation folder and open the sites folder. The sites folder is where you are allowed to add your own modules and themes. Here you can add more than one site domain.Here are the steps to prepare your Drupal installation for custom modules and themes:1. First, always set your site Administration theme to a core theme such as Garland. Thus you prevent theme accidents while trying out new themes. Under the Drupal Administration screen, select “Administration theme” and click Garland, then “Save configuration”. Now you can add any new themes.2. Add two new folders named modules and themes inside the sites/all folder.You also can add two more folders inside sites/all/modules called custom and contrib. It separates modules your team creates versus modules you download from the community (contrib, short for contributed). Themes do not need this folder separation because most sites as a rule have more modules installed than themes.3. Copy or upload your custom theme folder into the sites/all/themes folder and Drupal should recognize it under your Themes administration page.The other important thing is that you should never add new themes and modules to the core folders (drupal/modules, drupal/themes). Add new only to your drupal/sites/all folder.Visit the Drupal administration theme as soon as your theme is added to sites/all/themes.Here is the sample of standard Drupal Themes administration area where you should find your custom theme listed with core themes.If you don’t see your theme, then check whether it is in the right folder (drupal/sites/all/themes) or include a proper .info file in your theme folder.Enable new theme and check content on your sites pages. In case something is missing, double-check whether all files are named properly and all templates are in your theme folder.The site Theme cache should be flushed every time you update a theme folder. Visit or refresh the Theme administration screen to flush the site

Colorful images, informative PDFs, catchy videos, and other multimedia assets add the secret sauce to your website’s engagement power. However, it can be overwhelming to manage them all on a large website. Fortunately, Drupal ships with a robust built-in system for consistent and editor-friendly multimedia management. Let the ImageX Drupal team guide you through the ins and outs of using the Drupal core Media.A brief overview of Drupal’s Media systemThe Drupal core provides the ultimate set of features for adding, finding, reusing, editing, deleting, configuring and displaying multimedia assets. It’s possible to embed these assets in the WYSIWYG text editor or add them to your content via a media field. It doesn't matter where they are hosted — you can save them to the Media Library from a local PC or embed them from third-party sites like YouTube (using oEmbed). The Library offers a slick, intuitively understandable interface.Media assets can be anything — images, documents, slideshows, tweets, Facebook posts, Vimeo videos, and so on. Media entities are grouped into media types, which is similar in many ways to how content entities (nodes) are grouped into content types. We will discuss this and many other exciting features in more detail soon. Media as part of the Drupal coreThe Media system is listed among Drupal’s much-awaited advancements that it received on its journey from version 8 to version 9. Previously, part of its current functionalities existed in the form of contributed Drupal modules. Thanks to the Media Initiative, the final set of great multimedia management features landed in the Drupal core to make the life of content editors much easier. The Media module first appeared as a hidden API in the Drupal 8.4 core, and the Media Library module arrived as an experimental module in Drupal 8.6. As both modules were reaching stability, they continued being improved and getting new features. The Drupal 8.8 core finally welcomed the Media system as we know it today — with WYSIWYG integration finalized. According to Drupal’s creator Dries Buytaert, this feature completed the final milestone in the decade-long transformation of Drupal media management. It’s also worth mentioning the Easy-Out-of-the-Box Initiative plans to make the Media system, along with the Claro theme and Layout Builder, enabled from the start on all Drupal websites. Getting started: enabling the modulesLet us start this step-by-step guide with some great news for you — there is nothing to download. However, the modules are not enabled out of the box, so you will need to enable them on the Extend tab of your Drupal admin dashboard.Enabling the modules on the Extend tab.Understanding Drupal’s media typesIf you visit the Structure page, you will see 5 media types provided by Drupal out of