On Saturday, Dec 11, 2004, at 17:41 US/Central, Robert Citek wrote:
On Saturday, Dec 11, 2004, at 10:56 US/Central, Jerry wrote:How is Drupal better or different than the tools we a using? Robert, Scott, Ed, others?
Dunno. What can Drupal do? What plugins are available?
From what I've been reading on the Drupal site, Drupal is more of a content management system (CMS). Which means that instead of creating a website using vi and HTML, you build the site within the environment (framework?) the CMS provides for you. The default framework is quite limited. But you can expand the framework by turning on certain features (such as themes) or adding in additional plug-ins. Plug-ins could be for a download area, an upload area, a blog area, a calendar, a chat room, a wiki, an archives area, search features, a forum, yada, yada, yada. In theory, you can set up Access Control Lists (ACLs) to allow certain users to restrict/grant access to the various features. Whether Drupal does all that I do not know. For now, I'm just skimming through the user's guide and trying things out by clicking on various items:
http://drupal.org/node/6261
For example, I have modified the main page to now say CWELUG, display the slogan, and show a mission:
http://stl-floss.homelinux.org/
I did this by logging in as admin then modifying the options under Administrator > Settings. If anyone is interested in playing with Drupal, just visit the above site and create a username/password pair for yourself. If anyone wants to explore as an admin, just drop me an e-mail.
BTW, this Drupal site is running on an P450, 512 MB RAM, 10 GB HDD machine running Fedora Core 2 that's sitting behind a D-Link wireless router connected to the Internet via Charter broadband using DHCP. The hostname is registered with DynDNS.org with the IP address being updated dynamically using ddclient. Most of the setup notes are here:
http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?FedoraCore2
But if they are unclear or you have any questions, feel free to ask here on the list.
Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent
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