Drupal is a powerful content management system that allows users to create complex, multi-user blogs and websites with user-generated content. It has over 2000 contributed modules and 250 themes that provide additional functionality like forums, search, localization, caching, and statistics. While Drupal is powerful and configurable, it also has a learning curve and requires configuration to meet specific needs beyond basic blogging. Basic requirements are a web server like Apache, PHP, and a database like MySQL.

1. Drupal: blog and beyond Sugree Phatanapherom http://sugree.com/ [email_address] http://twitter.com/sugree

2. Drupal is a Content Management System

3. Drupal is not just a blog engine.

4. Are you looking for personal blog engine?

5. Sorry, Drupal is not the right solution for you.

6. Are you looking for something beyond blog?

7. Multiple user blog?

8. Community blog?

9. Complex blog?

10. User-generated content aka anything 2.0?

11. Yes, Drupal is one of the best solution that you are looking for.

12. Why?

13. You are not alone in Drupal world.

15. 2000+ contributed modules

16. 250+ contributed themes

17. 49 languages including Thai.

18. Community-driven development.

19. Open Source!

20. Many cool sites are using Drupal.

21. http://drupalsn.com/projects

23. Yes! DrupalSN is a social network powered by Drupal.

24. www.ubuntu.com

25. www.stonewalldemocrats.org

26. appel.nasa.gov

27. www.mtv.co.uk/channel/flux

28. www.foxsearchlight.com

29. opensource.org

30. www.greenpeace.org.uk

31. www.ozzy.com

32. britney.com

33. www.jenniferlopez.com

34. www.avrillavigne.com

35. research.yahoo.com

36. www.bobdylan.com

37. www.blognone.com

38. www.ubuntuclub.com

39. www.debianclub.org

40. www.fukduk.tv

41. One caution.

42. With great power comes great responsibility.

43. Drupal is powerful.

44. Drupal is complicated.

45. Drupal allows you to configure how it work.

46. That means you must configure to make it work as you really want.

47. Default configuration mostly will never satisfy your needs.

48. http://buytaert.net/drupal-learning-curve

49. Basic requirements?

50. Apache / PHP / MySQL

51. And you will get … in return

52. Blog, Forum, Search, RSS, l10n, Cache, Statistics

53. Not enough? Let's see killer features

54. Installation profiles

55. Friendly URLs

56. Taxonomy / Category

57. APIs

58. In details, Drupal consists of core APIs and core modules.

59. Node is a key concept.

60. Node is a pair of title and body.

61. Modules may create new node types with specific fields.

62. Modules may modify existing node types.

63. CCK allows you to add new or modify existing node types.

64. Views allow you to create custom report in form of page, block and rss.

65. Taxonomy is a generic classification tool.

66. Taxonomy allows you to group nodes together based on predefined criteria.

67. Delicious and Flickr are the best in this field.

68. You can do the same in Drupal!

69. How to make another level of blog?

70. It depends on your imagination.

71. Clean URLs: built-in and pathauto

72. Comment feed: crss

73. Spam filter: mollom or akismet

74. Search: built-in search or google_cse

75. Advertising: adsense and ad

76. Tag cloud: tagadelic

77. Avatar: built-in avatar or gravatar

78. Authentication: built-in or openid

79. Edit UI: tinymce, fckeditor

80. Text format: marksmarty, textile

81. Code format: geshifilter

82. Smart feed: feedburner

83. Podcast: encl_remote, audio, video

84. Embeded: media

85. Moderation: workflow

86. Statistics: google_analytics

87. Not enough?

88. http://drupal.org/project/Modules

89. drupal.in.th