Concepts

Node

Nodes can be any content type

News Event Blog

Prole

Report

Analysis

Product

Movie

Director

........

The Node

Node Fields

A Node A Node

A Node

Many Nodes

Block

Blocks

Can be positioned through conguration (or Contexts or Panels)

Header Left
Regions

Right

Content Footer

Lots of regions out of the box

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Custom Regions Can Be Added

Theme

Layout provided by themes

Use Drupal Themes Included

Download Themes From drupal.org

Or Build Your Own Theme

Design can also be provided by Panels

Taxonomy

by Habitat
Water Land, Air

Land, Air

Land

Fixed Vocabulary
Vocabulary: Habitat Terms: Air Land Water

Terms are pre-dened by site maintainers

Fixed Vocabulary
Vocabulary: Habitat Terms: Air Land -Tropical -Polar Water -Shallows -Deep

Terms can have multiple levels

User Entered Terms

Those that belong to the Emperor Embalmed ones Those that are trained Suckling pigs Mermaids Fabulous ones Stray dogs Those included in the present classication Those that tremble as if they were mad Innumerable ones Those drawn with a very ne camelhair brush Others Those that have just broken a ower vase Those that from a long way off look like ies
From Borges ctional Chinese Encyclopaedia "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge"

Free Tagging (or Folksonomy)

Users add tags (terms) to content as it is being created or edited. Autocomplete is used to suggest existing terms, to try to create common classication.

Click on Polar to see all content tagged with that term.

Term title & description

Click on Polar to see all content tagged with that term.

Menu

Primary Menu

Links added through conguration

Primary Menu

Questions

Content Structure

Content Structure
Entity Bundle Field Widget Formatter

Entity
An abstraction of a data type e.g. node, user, comment

drupal.org/project/entity

Bundle
A group of elds An instance of an Entity e.g. Story (node) content type

Field
Available for various types of data e.g. numeric, text, boolean, image, le

Widget
Controls how eld is presented for
data input

e.g. text eld, select list, radio buttons

Formatter
A formatter controls how a eld is
presented for data display

e.g. plain text, trimmed, image size, as link

Token
Place holder tokens lled in by Drupal e.g. [node:author]

drupal.org/project/token

Image Credits

by Puliarf by EDD07

by Strange Ones

Christina Spicuzza