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Use of Drupal & Other CMSs
for a
Site on Decentralization
by
K Rajasekharan
Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA)
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It is all about a siteon Local Governance http://decwatch.org
built on Drupal & Other CMSs
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It looks like this
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A Section is on High Court Judgment
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There are pages for E Documents with Search
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Act , Rules & Others are put with easy Navigation
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Free E Journals with Custom Search
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It adds a News Archive using Blogger
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A Video Repository using Blogger is there
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It integrates an Article Archive
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Maintains A Mail Group for Discussions
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E Learning Site using Moodle is linked to
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Software Used for the Site
• Drupal : One of the best, useful for many uses
• Wordpress : Very popular, easy to use, beautiful
• Moodle : one of the best E-Learning tool
• Blogger : Popular blog site
• Google Groups: for email discussions
• Scribd.com & Such sites linked to it to bring in
outside content
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How to Build a Drupal Site
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Mc Master University Library’s Drupal Site
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How the Drupal Installation is
• On Apache, MySQL, PhP (LAMP/WAMP)
• XAMPP contains all the three configured
• Copy the contents of the CMS into the htdocs of
the web server
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Go to phpMyAdmin
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Create a MySQL Database
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Drupal Installation : Opening Screen
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Configure Database
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Configure Site
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Add functionality to Site
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Site Administration Page : to do other things
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Theme : to Change the Look
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Regions & Blocks for Content Placing
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Module Enabling Page
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Modules : Configuring
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Navigation Menu : Editing
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How to Give Permission to Users
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Easy to Creating a Page
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How to Upload a Live Site
• Get a url & web space from a provider
• Create a database using the Cpanel
• Upload the CMS to server by using filezilla/ftp
application
• Type url (http://sitename.com) on a browser
• Configure to make the site
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What to be Taken Care of
• Planning the site is critical
• the Design to be cute
• think quality of contents
• Pages to be added with links to more resources
• Use slide share, flicker etc to support
• Use free archiving space to ease out
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What to Know When Building
• Keep users in mind
• Content is the King
• Comparative knowledge on equivalent Software
• Emerging media types, players, uses etc
• Ways to promote sites use
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A CMS Site Builder requires
Content worth-delivering
Craft
Creativity &
Technology
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What make
a site exciting
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Information Architecture (IA)
Structuring, Organization,
Categorization, labeling,
search, and navigation for
Information Usability
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Graphic Design
Use Design Principles
length, breadth, grid
etc to make the Site
Attractive
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The Art of Typography
The contrast between
fonts & between text,
blocks & surroundings.
A film is there on
typography, design & visual
culture
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Integrated Use of Colours
Colours can set a mood,
attract attention &
use of content easier.
Learn Principles of
Colour Use
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Which CMS is easier to begin with
• Wordpress is, perhaps, the easiest & nice looking
• Joomla is popular as is being used by CDIT
• Drupal is an advanced one with many utilities
• Moodle installation is CMS like
• Bogger & Wordpress are good blog sites to begin
with
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Library Laws & Use of CMS
CMS helps in Inclusive library
service so as to make digital
information reach users, the
reverse and easy growth of
knowledge
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