This Online Web Design Curriculum Is Designed For Homeschoolers
We will walk you through step by step telling you the easiest ways to get your drupal site up and ready for your dream!
10 Reasons Homeschool Students Should Learn Webdesign!
1. Helps You Become a Better Writer
2. Helps You Stay on Top of What’s Happening in Your Niche
3. Helps You Build Credibility in Your Field
4. Can Help You Get a Job
5. Can Help You Make Extra Money
6. Expands Your Network
7. Allows You to Share Your Expertise
8. Helps Spread the Word About Causes You Care About
9. Can Help You Position Yourself as a Thought Leader
10. Your own website is the Ultimate Marketing Tool for Jobseekers
10 Easy Things You Can do With Drupal!
1. Create a blog, Personal Homepage, Homeschool Website, Church Website (Whatever your dream is)
2. Set up accounts for other people to use, edit or contribute to your website.
3. Change your style templates or Themes. Make it look like you!
4. Add a site-wide search box,
5. Add a calendar
6. Upload files like pdf's, mp3's or video.
7. Easily embed Youtube videos!
8. Set up surveys and forms.
9. Categorize content (then automatically display it based on its category).
10. Best of all, its FREE!
Why you should use the content management system called Drupal?
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Easy to use (even if you don't know html, php...)
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Lots of modules
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Lots of FREE themes
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You can make a website in terms of hours, even minutes
Sites running DRUPAL!
These are some of the best sites on the web and they are running drupal. When you learn drupal, you are learning a Content Management System that is in demand.
10 Advanced Reasons To Use Drupal
Here are 10 reasons why you should seriously be considering Drupal for your future.
- Advanced URL Control — Unlike WordPress, Drupal gives you precise control over URL structure. Each item of content in Drupal (called a node) can be given a custom URL (called a URL alias). In WordPress you are generally limited to one type of permalink URL for all posts. You can override the "post slug", but it's much less precise than Drupal's URL aliases. You can also automate custom URL structures for each different content type with the Pathauto Module. The Global Redirect Module will automatically 301 redirect the internal Drupal URL to the custom URL alias. Unlike many other content management systems, Drupal's content pages have nice clean URLs.
- Customize the way your content shows to your public — You can use the Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views Modules to make your content change, rotate or move to another page without writing any code. A few examples of "content types" are "blog posts", "product item", "forum posts", "tutorials", "calendar event", "podcasts". You can create as many custom content types as you would like and display them in hundreds of different ways. Most content management systems would require writing code to accomplish these tasks, but there is no programming knowledge required to do them in Drupal.
- Collaboration Control — You can configure Drupal to save a new version of your pages every time they are editing. That means that you can go back to view or revert old revisions if you want.
- Taxonomy — Drupal has a powerful taxonomy (category) system that allows you to organize and tag content. For example, you could have video contents that allowed free tagging, while your blog section might have a different vocabulary (set of categories). You can also have children categories, with single or multiple parent categories. Drupal's advanced taxonomy features, combined with CCK and Views, allows you to organize your site to be searched and navigated by your visitors.
- Create a Community — Drupal was designed for community-based Web sites and has strong user role functionality. You can create as many custom user roles with custom access levels as you need. For example you could create the following roles, each with different levels of access to your features: "anonymous visitor", "authenticated user", "moderator", "editor", "webmaster", "admin". You decide who goes where on your site.
- Page Titles and Meta Tags — Drupal's Page Title Module gives you custom control of your HTML <title> elements, while the Meta Tags Module gives you control over your pages' individual meta description tags. This is difficult in some content management systems, but it's easy with Drupal.
- Excellent Documentation — Documentation includes the official handbooks, the massive API Reference, numerous tutorials, blogs, videos, and podcasts, and the excellent new book Pro Drupal Development. We are working hard to get you up and running with the simplest of steps.
- PHP Template — Drupal uses the PHP Template theme engine by default. Theming in Drupal is easier than theming in WordPress and doesn't necessarily require any PHP knowledge. Get firefox, load up firebug and your favorite css editor and your off and running. Change colors, look, design without changing the php code.
- Drupal Cookbooks — If you want a feature that is not built into Drupal by default, chances are that someone has already written a code snippet for it and posted it in the code snippets section of Drupal.org.
- Large and Friendly Community — With so many major sites using Drupal, It will be here for a while. To give you an idea of the size of the community, take a look at the long list of community-contributed modules. The Drupal forum is very active and is a place to get your Drupal questions answered. You can also find Drupal support on IRC chat on channels #drupal-support and #drupal-dojo. To meet other Drupal users in your area, visit Drupal Groups.
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Chad Gleaves and Sean Morales teach homeschool families how to set up, manage and market their own website. HomeSchool-Webmaster.com's FREE online web design classes will help you create easy-to-use, powerful websites to get your dream online. Get your FREE web design education at HomeSchool-WebMaster.com
