For this Drupal walkthrough, you will need your own Drupal install.

Goal

Create a community website, like Chingri Maach, so that members may:

• register and receive their password by email
• login and create their own blogs
• members and guests may comment, add to forums, events calendar, and classifieds
• publish read-only city-specific community information including:
  • residential neighbourhoods
  • shopping locations
  • schools
  • etc

Functional Requirements

• The site will consist of the following sections:
  • City-specific informational pages
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  • Per-member blogs
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  • Events calendar
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  • Classifieds
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  • Forums
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• Member features and user permissions
  • Access levels will enable guests, members, and editors to add specific content types. For example:
    • Guests will be able to comment
    • Members will be able to add blog entries
    • Editors will be able to add informational pages
  • During registration, members are required to entire profile information (city, interests, etc.) and agree to the site's terms, conditions, and policies.
  • Members are able to create their own networks/buddy lists.
• Informational pages: Geocoding city shops and other locations
  • Informational pages are city specific and allow for geocoded city shop information

Technical Requirements

• Drupal install
• Drupal modules (add-ons)*: Full list
• Drupalspeak: The Drupal tasks accomplished during this walkthrough:
  • Configuring Drupal core modules
  • Configuring Drupal contributed modules
  • Creating a new node type: Store
  • Creating views to display filtered lists of nodes: Stores by state

* Installation steps described below

The following notation convention will be used to differentiate between navigating your file system (<folder>/<subfolder>) and navigating Drupal via a web browser (admin >> content).

Implementation steps

Parta 2a of this Drupal Demo will include the implementation steps for the core Drupal modules, and the remaining implementation steps will be concluded in a subsequent blog entry.

1. Enable the following core modules: admin >> site building >> modules
   1. Display external feeds on your site: Aggregator
   2. Per-member blogs: Blog
   3. Comment
   4. Email submission via a site form: Contact
   5. Forum
   6. Help
   7. Customize site navgiation: Menu
   8. Meaningful URLs (By default Drupal URLs look like this:
      http://web-two-oh.com.au/?q=node/1
      Enable the core Path module to enable meaningful paths such as http://web-two-oh.com.au/?q=aboutus)
      Path
   9. Conduct member surveys and collect votes: Poll
   10. Request additional information from registered members: Profile
   11. Search
   12. Allow tagging of content: Taxonomy
   13. View a recent updates list: Tracker
2. Edit the site's meta data: admin >> site configuration >> site information:
   Name = Aussie Web 2.0 Community
   Email = contact@web-two-oh.com.au
   Slogan = The Aussie Web 2.0 community
   Mission = Providing a Web 2.0 space for members of the Aussie Web 2.0 community.
   Footer = Copyright © 2007 Aussie Web 2.0 Community
3. Clean URLs: By default Drupal URLs look like this:
   http://web-two-oh.com.au/?q=node/1
   By enabling the core Path module and clean URLs, allow URLs such as
   http://web-two-oh.com.au/aboutus
   admin >> site configuration >> clean URLs >> run test and enable clean URLs
4. Aggregate external news feeds: admin >> content management >> news aggregator
5. Create a main bulletin board/discussion forum: admin >> content management >> forums
   
6. User access levels/permissions: admin >> user managemet >> access control
   Enable the pre-determined user rules:
   • Guests will be able to comment
   • Members will be able to add blog entries
   • Editors will be able to add informational pages

   

7. The menu/navigational configurations will be added when content is added

... to be continued in part 2b