We at Young Innovations Pvt. Ltd had recently jotted down a "Drupal How to for Beginners" which mainly deals with setting up a Drupal website and adding, editing some content. It is based on Drupal 5.2.I've uploaded the file in the location below, hope you people benefit from it. It is 90+ pages .pdf file with step by step explanation and screen-shots. Its 5.67 MB.
I'd like to hear from you so please don't hesitate to give feedback, replying in this thread or mail me. I think the linux users will have raise questions regarding use of XAMPP in windows but being web interface I hope it does not matter. Hope to hear from you soon. All comments are welcome, I had posted it on Drupal Nepal and FOSS Nepal group as well. comments I got from there were encouraging. This document is licensed under Creative Commons Attibution-NC-SA license.
Download Link at http://geshan.blogspot.com/2007/11/drupal-how-to-for-beginners-and-all.html
Geshan
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Sounds nice...
... but I couldn't get it to download.
Michelle
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How is this different then the existing Getting Started documentation and PDF.
http://drupal.org/getting-started
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The downloads are almost 200 but I here the comments are just two.
Please comment on how it is and how it can be improved.
About being similar to getting started, well it is more comprehensive, step by step and with more screenshots and explanations I guess, anyways thanks for the comments.
Geshan
Basic Drupal HOw to
Nice
I was not able to download the pdf earlier, but today the download server worked. Nice.
Page 10 and 11, 20 and perhaps more seem to be copied from the Drupal.org handbook. Can you please add an attribution for those pages?
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Drupal How to makes News at CMS Wire
I just asked for some comments but here is a full review of this Drupal How to at CMS wire by John Conroy.
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/nepalese-drupal-beginners-guide-50-tr...
Entitled: Nepalese Drupal Beginners Guide + 50 Tricks Not to Miss
It says:
Now there's a headline you never thought you'd see. Young Innovations,
a Drupal development firm from the mystical land of Nepal, has
released a beginners guide, in English, for the Drupal open source web
content management system. Drupal how to For Beginners was developed
by Young Innovations in conjunction with SAP, and is freely available
under a Creative Commons license.
Running to 94 pages and with screenshots-aplenty, the guide is
comprehensive. The scope is similarly broad - beginning with an
explanation of what a CMS is (as if anybody knows anymore...), and
continues through installation, management, customization, and adding
modules.
........
It adds:
Young Innovations should have called this 'Goldilocks Teaches Drupal',
because everything is just about right.
Right length, right level of complexity, right amount of 'dumbing
down' for less technical folk -- within their stated audience of semi-
HTML proficient persons, right balance between explanation and overt
instruction.
So here you have plenty of reasons to download this how to and go through it at least once.
Geshan
Basic Drupal HOw to
Looks nice
Geshan, thank you for sharing your guide.
IMO there is a reason for your "How-to For Beginners" and the "Getting-started guide" in the Handbook to coexhist.
The first is comprehensive, essential and low-tech, making it a kind of "written screencast" (lot of screenshots) useful for newbyes.
The second goes a bit further with some concepts, terminology and contents (ie: PHP requirements, upgrading, taxonomy, cck,..) suiting better the not-100%-beginners.
What i liked most in your How-to at a first look is:
+ how the index is structured (especially Chap.4): looks essential and comprehensive for the newbye.
+ chapter 2: that's a nice overview for who's not yet 100% convinced of the bounty of Drupal
Probably both the guides could learn something from each other and lend some contents (and credits ;), translating them respectively for the less and the more confident Drupal beginner?
Just my 2 cents.
PS: a typo at page 22, it's bryght, not brygt ;)
Cheers,
-marco
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