Drupal Info for Meredith
Jun 16th, 2006 by Karen
What can I say? I’m a sucker when it comes to getting asked a tech question of any sort. I love to go off investigating. Meredith at Information Wants to Be Free and I were talking a while back and Drupal came up. I’ve been interested in playing with it for a while because it is a more “all in one” solution than Wordpress. Meredith had a couple questions about Drupal. Since I had a few lunch moments I did a little digging and here’s what I found.
- You can use a WYSIWYG into Drupal
- There is a wiki module as well.
- Drupal also includes a news aggregator module
- You can set up a blog for every user
- There is LDAP integration if you can tap and existing LDAP store. (Good for us in academic libraries)
- Stuff for vlogging
- Module for audio content
Looking at it Drupal might a great starting point if you wanted to run a class that used Web 2.0 technologies.
As part of testing a new test server at work I’ve loaded Drupal. The install was a snap and I plan to spend some time configuring it and adding some of the modules I mention above. I’ll keep you up to speed with how it goes, from what I’ve seen thus far though it look very promising.
Awww… you’re so sweet! I’m passing this straight onto my husband since I think we’re going to use Drupal for the companion Web site for my book as well. I want it to be much more than just the typical Web site — since the book’s on social software I want the site to be social as well (with podcast interviews, and wiki stuff and whatnot). This info will definitely come in handy.
Thanks for your help!
Turns out that this year’s Summer of Code is writing an assignment/gradebook module for Drupal. Useful!
http://drupal.org/node/60031
I trying to decide wether or not to use drupal or buy Dreamweaver to redo our website, what do you think other than $?
Drupal is really powerfull and flexible open source CMS.
Out of the box, it provides a lot of features, but it’s also extensible by modules (http://drupal.org/project/Modules) and themes (http://drupal.org/project/Themes).
Good place to take look at a lot of Drupal themes is http://themegarden.org (Drupal Theme Garden)