If you have friends or colleagues who have put up their own site, you may have heard them mention Drupal. While looking at existing sites, trying to decide what type of design you want, you may have seen some sites that have been created using it. All of this may have left you wondering, what is Drupal?  In short, it is a free content management system. If you are among the millions of people who are looking for a way to create a web site quickly and easily without any technical knowledge, you are in luck. This platform is ready in moments and is scalable, stable and secure.

What is Drupal? It is a way to quickly and easily organize, update and present a web site using modules, or nodes. The software is ready to use once the download is complete. It is appropriate for all users, from the novice to the technically inclined to the experienced developer. Modules designed to help manage content are part of the core system. They include templating, polls, and threaded comments. Templates enable you to customize the design elements of your site. Polls and threaded comments allow visitors to your web site interact with you, either by answering poll questions or participating in a discussion.

What is Drupal? It is a feature rich platform that allows you to personalize the content and presentation of your web site by defining your preferences. Core modules enable you to control the content, while others allow you to designate who can make changes to the site. The administration portion of the software tracks the changes by user, date and type of change. It helps you manage everyday tasks such as web site registration and profiles. Sites that are created using this adaptable framework can be changed switching modules out or by adding plug-ins that enhance functionality.

What is Drupal? It is an open-source application, written in PHP to enable it to create dynamic web sites. This makes the platform powerful, flexible and reliable. It is available for anyone who wishes to create modules to enhance its functionality and it is free to all users. The community of developers that use Drupal is extensive. As a result there is detailed documentation and handbooks available. The forums are a wonderful opportunity for you to interact with other users and to have your questions answered by others with practical usage experience.

As the last image that appears in your browser page, there are four parts you can see.

* Header
The first part is dark blue with the logo on drupal and Drupalku site name.
* Sidebar Block
Part of the left sidebar called the block-block holds, where currently there is only one block that is an admin account.
* Main Page
The center of the page is the main page .. This page will be filled by your content, if the posts are set to appear on the front page (default is immediately appear on the front).
* Footer
The lower part of the site, currently only contains a small logo drupal.

Your current status is entered / logged in as admin, as you know that as an admin, you can do anything on this site. We will try to discuss, what can you see and do as an admin.

There are four main menu, namely

* My account
Contains the identity of the owner of this account is the admin.
* Create content
Menu to create new content. Type of content depending on what type of content that will be activated.
* Administer
Administer the main menu from an admin. Inside are many options for setting the overall tools content.
* Log out
Round out the menu for you to log in as admin.

Here’s an explanation of each part of the admin account.

In the My Account menu, there are two menu tabs presented, namely View the current access and edit your. Through the View you can see the History of your membership, where the old admin 1 week 5 days. This section will grow as your item as admin already started construction of the site.

The second tab is menu Edit. This section has an editing function for your account information, the user name, e-mail address, password and your account status. As an admin, you can edit the users who will be a member on your site. Moreover, if there is a “bad”, you can use to lock the blocked status of membership of the site. To set the Time zone, as in the previous tutorial, leave the way they are.

Create content menu used to create site content (content). Drupal default there are two types of content that is provided

* Page
Page content type used to create static pages in a site. Examples such as About Us, Policy, and so on. The pages created using Page content type is usually not intended to allow visitors to comment, in the sense that it is only for information pages.
* Story
Story content type is usually used to create a more dynamic pages are usually allows visitors to provide comments. This content type could be to create a daily journal. In some cases, Story content type is also used by some drupal users to create blogs. But in reality, the type of content is also provided their own blogs by drupal.

For a discussion on Create content and the deeper part, will be discussed in subsequent tutorials. We will proceed to the next menu to get you better understand the first parts of an outline of the drupal installation that you have done.
# Administer
Administer menu is the main menu of your admin account. Through this menu you can manage all activities on the site. In drupal version 6, the division’s admin pages are grouped into sub-sub menu, it will assist you in understanding each functions contained. In addition, there are two menu tabs that are used to make the distinction sub-groupings in the Administer menu this. By task and by module. I myself more familiar with the By task because it is more often used and this is also the same as the names of the sub menu Administer menu.

Cron has not run
If you look at this Administer section, you can see there is a green line just below the two tabs and menu By By task module. “Cron has not run. Please visit the status report for more information “. One small part of the drupal cron is a feature. Cron feature serves to index all site content into local search engine (which you install drupal). In addition, there are some module that also need cron running .. Considering you have just installed drupal, cron had not been executed. Warning order is lost, you can run manually by running the command in your browser http://localhost/mydrupal/cron.php. This command if completed will result in blank white page or pages only. However, you also can run a cron it by clicking on the status of trouble that came in it.

When you click the link status report, you’ll be taken to the page status report. This page gives information on whether you installed drupal having problems or not. You can also see whether the device is supporting drupal server can serve the needs of drupal or not, like the version of PHP, PHP memory limit, GD Library, etc.. Through this page you only want to run the cron. Find and click on the link manually run cron.

Once you click, you will be given confirmation that the successful cron runs. Cron ran successfully. Feel free to return to the previous menu on the Administer menu. Warning green color is gone now after you run this cron.

The following sub-menu of the page or menu Administer:

Content management

# Content management focused to manage all site activities associated with the content or postings. Comments, content, content type, setting pemostingan, RSS, until the taxonomy or categorization problem can be handled and managed through the sub-menu.

Site building

# Site building works to build things and fundamental importance of a site. Blocks, Menus, Modules, and Themes is the basic of building a drupal site. The things you can do this through the sub menu include the addition of a module, making the site menu, setting up to block the display problem in the form of themes.

User management

# Sites dynamic nature must not be separated from visitors or the member’s involvement. Well this dibagian reserved for settings related to the activities of visitors. Access rules, Permissions, Roles, User settings, Users. Things you can do the other set from the security side, the access rights page, to setting the user levels.

Reports

# Sub-menu presents the Report or the reports of monitoring activity drupal site. Recent log entries, Top acces denied errors, Top page not found errors and status report. You can enable some additional module to increase the completeness of the Reports.

Site configuration

# Site configuration function for setting things in more detail from a website. Almost every addition of a new module, you also need to set the configuration in this sub menu. The things you can do the other settings when the input data format to the site, site performance to manage the site more efficient, to make the status of the site off-line when you are to perform maintenance or repairs. Details of each sub menu will be explained in the next tutorial.

Help

# The people who often forget to access the Administer sub-menu is Help. Actually, this section is included for the purpose you have read and understood. You will be able to understand the terms used in drupal as nodes, blocks, and taxonomy. To more deeply about drupal, also provided a link to access the drupal handbook it. Help is highly recommended to read as a beginner.

Logout
To end the adventure today as admin drupal, do not forget to logout, so you will become a regular user again.

In this world, there are a paid CMS and CMS is that there are open source, meaning free to see, use, modify, etc. but still list the original source cms, and to remember again that open source IS NOT ALWAYS FREE, if there are still those who say open source is free should be given another explanation. But reportedly ya someday open source will actually be free, I hope yach .. lol

Below are the names of world famous cms that is open source, that is Blogspot, WordPress, Drupal, Mambo and Joomla one. For some people who entered the world or the world of web design bloggers sometimes difficult to determine to use a cms which, what the pros and cons and so on. Now this time try a little, we give some comparisons between the world’s great cms, may help …

1. Blogspot

Advantages:
- Very easy to operate, just need to register at the site Blogspot.com.
- Additional Pluggin supplied (built up).
- Suitable for beginners.
- Simple.
- Support for the Indonesian language.
- Users compact
- Support SEF (search engine friendly) by default, making it easier to find on search engines.

Weaknesses
- Too simple for some people and difficult to create.
- Alias Pluggin additional accessories are built up, so that could not be added by the user.
- Templates is limited and difficult to create a new template.
- Unable to run on our own website.
- Unable to run on the local computer (localhost) or on a computer without internet connection.

2. WordPress

Advantages:
- Quite easy to operate.
- Simple.
- Free accounts owned by wordpress can register at WordPress.com.
- WordPress can also be run on our own website (not like Blogspot).
- WordPress can run on the local computer (localhost) or on a computer without internet connection.
- Many additional pluggin.
- Template-foxes can be changed at will and can create their own templates.
- Users compact
- Support SEF (search engine friendly) by default, making it easier to find on search engines.

Weaknesses:
- Their management feature slightly so that some people consider too simple.
- Rarely used by major websites in the world.

3. Drupal

Advantages:
- Claimed as the best current CMS and defeat Joomla.
- Used by a simple website to a professional website.
- Easy operation
- Can be run on the local computer.
- Many additional pluggin.
- Template-foxes can be changed at will and can create their own templates.
- Support SEF (search engine friendly) by default, making it easier to find on search engines.

Weaknesses:
- Users are not too many, especially in developing countries
- Their not as much as Joomla plugin.

4. Mambo

Advantages:
- Used by a simple website to a professional website.
- Easy to operate.
- Can be run on the local computer.
- Additional Pluggin.
- Template-foxes can be changed at will and can create their own templates.

Weaknesses:
- Many users are left MamboMambo and switch to “brother” of his Joomla (including me).
- The crisis of trust open source world.
- Their plugins limited, sometimes only be made available for Joomla.
- The default does not support the SEF, but there are components that support both free and pay, but it needs some optimization in order to support the SEF.

5. Joomla

Advantages:
- Claimed as open source cms with the user in the world.
- Used by a simple website to a professional website.
- Frequent updates from the CMS and from pluggin.
- Having confidence in the world and several times received awards to the best open source CMS world.
- Easy to operate.
- Can be run on the local computer.
- Many additional pluggin.
- Template-foxes can be changed at will and can create their own templates.
- Many of the developers are constantly adding more content-content Joomla.

Weaknesses:
- The default does not support the SEF, but there are components that support both free and pay, but it needs some optimization in order to support the SEF.
- Sometimes pluggins have obtained a bug or error.
- Sometimes there is a discrepancy between the CMS and pluggin.

So choose which one?
Every cms above have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I try to match between CMS and its users. Here cms and function according to their suitability me:

Blogspot
- Try, try the blogger, CMS & website design (especially the layout).
- Create a simple website for a particular purpose.
- Creating back links to a site.

WordPress
- Try, try the blogger, CMS & website design (especially the layout) with a more professional appearance.
- Facility to create.
- Create a simple website for a particular purpose.
- Creating back links to a site.

Drupal
- Create a professional website.
- Train yourself to use open source cms professional.

Mambo
- Create a professional website.
- Train yourself to use open source cms professional.
- Introduction to Mambo Joomla as the origin.

Drupal
- Create a professional website.
- Train yourself to use open source cms professional.

Unique of the discussion is between Mambo & Joomla, yep there was initially only used Mambo, and there is a conflict between the developer Mambo. Some suggested that Mambo made the company or manufacturer and the idea was opposed by other developers because the company / factory is a violation of the open source code, so developers since it does not agree to any company / factory split from Mambo and Joomla called make cms . So that the CMS Joomla 1.xx is almost similar to Mambo, it was sometimes found in pluggin Mambo can be used by Joomla and vice versa. However, lately Joomla created a new version is 1.5 (release version, but still candidate (rc) aka not officially) a lot of different Mambo cms, so that their plugin can no longer wear exchanged between Mambo & Joomla …: D

I personally first learned about the CMS Joomla CMS, but at that time I use Mambo for making my site. But its effects are felt later when I was looking for pluggin-pluggin for Mambo, yep quite limited and difficult because most their pluggin created for Joomla only. So I switched to Joomla and this website is the result of my first work using Joomla.

Return to CMS on the issue, which is good CMS you use is dependent on your interests and needs, each CMS has their own advantages and weaknesses, BUT that does not mean the weaknesses of the above is absolute, because I could have one day in cms-cms above evolve into a better CMS. Such example is the Joomla SEF problems, first I was afraid to use Joomla and had turned into WordPress, but ultimately did support the SEF and Joomla website was finally able to support the SEF (I use OpenSEF), so that I still exist in Joomla (for discussion of SEF can you search on Google) Laughing.

At the end of this article I suggest that you are looking for more comparisons between the CMS with one another, for example, by using Google’s search engine tool.