On Drupal.org you can find the "Get Started" Section of the site.
http://drupal.org/start
- Download the Drupal project
- Try out some of the most popular modules
Tutorials and books
Drupal.org - Tutorials section contains
"Hello Drupal" is a 1.5-3hr tutorial. Contains a manual and presentation, but you can use it as self-study materials as well, or use it in a meet-up or at a camp for free. http://training.acquia.com/hellodrupal
Free videos and screencasts
http://tutr.tv/ Aggregates screencasts, conference and camp recorded presentations.
http://nodeone.se/learn-drupal
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast
http://learnbythedrop.com/
Commercial (paid) resources
http://buildamodule.com/
http://www.lynda.com/Drupal-training-tutorials/186-0.html
http://drupalize.me/
Comments
drupal_cookbook Drupal for Beginners
What program are you using to create the .pdf because I can't open it with FireFox 5.0. I got a glimpse with IE 8.0 and noticed most of it relates to versions of Drupal 4.7, 5, and 6. I finally just used Adobe Acrobat Professional 8.0 and it works great.
How do you want this dealt with since we now have version 7.
This is just an export of the
This is just an export of the book pages from d.o from 2008. This has a hint of the odor of spam, was added to too many groups. Not sure of the original poster's intentions.
edit: I removed the dodgy content above and replaced it
Thanks Heather
I'm so new I have no clue what a "D.O. from 2008" means so it figures I bought into it. Sorry.
d.o. is short for drupal.org.
d.o. is short for drupal.org. Drupal documentation is arranged in 'handbooks', hence the 'book' pages :)
Thanks Heather and yoroy
Thank you so very much. Now I have another idea of somewhere to search for some answers hopefullly.
I really wish when you register for drupal.org for the first time there was a tab for Beginners (non-programmers) lol. I have been trying to learn/navigate Drupal for 2 years and am known to be persistent so am still chugging along trying to "get" it. But it is SO very frustrating. Especially when everyone else seems to just be so many hundreds of thousands of light years ahead of me. I don't want to be a bother so am reluctant to admit just how ignorant I am, but know without asking questions I will NEVER figures this out. Yeah, I was taught there are no stupid questions but when the person you ask is busy or stressed, they can sure make you feel like it.
Learn Drupal
@mmdavis, it's not so easy to get started but something that helped me a lot in the beginning (and still) are all the videocasts that nice, brilliant people make. It's a very good start to get that basic knowledge, especially if you try to do the tasks in the videos at the same time.
http://www.lynda.com/Drupal-training-tutorials/186-0.html (pay a monthly/yearly fee, loads of tutorials not only Drupal)
http://nodeone.se/learn-drupal (free)
http://buildamodule.com/ (pay a monthly/yearly fee)
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast (free)
http://learnbythedrop.com/ (free)
http://drupalize.me/ (pay a monthly/yearly fee)
There are many more I'm sure, these are just the ones I came up with on the spot!
Good luck!
PDF documents are often used
PDF documents are often used to distribute viruses because of Adobe Acrobat bugs and popularity. I would think twice before opening that document, if I was you :)
PDF documents and viruses
I was surprised to read this. Is this because they imbed the viruses in the document as they convert it into a PDF? Or something else. I have been told that for accessibility and ease of use for "readers" PDF's are the way to go. Especially since I will soon be working on a site that is finally putting their Equipment Manuals/Drawings/Blueprints/Schematics online for the buyers of their equipment to be able to download as needed.
Is there a better way to do this with Drupal? I need to make sure the pages do not show up on sitemaps and are not accessible to anyone except via secure password.
PDF files, like other files
PDF files, like other files can be secured in a "private" files directory. These would not be accessible from typing in a http:// address, unless they passed through authentication.
You could use modules like "content access" to secure any information by roles so only trusted users could access pages.
http://drupal.org/project/content_access
Depends on whether you are in 6 or 7. More technical about content access relating to 6.
http://www.zivtech.com/blog/drupal-node-access-explained-0
Thanks, crea! That is a good
Thanks, crea! That is a good point.
I deleted the dodgy file and updated the content with the very good suggestions in the comments.
mmdavis - how are things going? Please point me to some of your forum/support posts, I'd be glad to help out.
I also moved it out of the
I also moved it out of the many groups it was on. It was really just spam before. Hopefully useful now!