Making Drupal Less Daunting
summary
Explains why Drupal feels minimal out of the box and what actually helps — use the Drupal 8 user guide, pick a distribution (examples: Lightning distribution, OpenSocial) to skip repetitive setup, and treat Drupal as a CMS framework built from content types plus views. Calls out technical gotchas: branch-based workflows, multiple cache layers, hosting constraints. Notes a real template system running ~280 Drupal 7 sites with monthly releases, and production hosting on Acquia/AWS with region failover.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 6:10Drupal basics and concepts
- 12:18Tips for getting started
- 22:23Making Drupal easier to start
- 29:21Selecting a Drupal vendor
- 35:16Hosting and maintenance tips
- 41:53Drupal community involvement
- 46:27Q&A and closing remarks
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