Get Started With Tutorial - Teach Yourself Practical Drupal

This is a free tutorial guide on how to create or build a website for any
beginner(s), and solution for small businesses/individuals. It's kind of Do-it-yourself. You can:-
- have any number of pages
- edit the pages yourself as and when you like
- change the web hosting company if service is no good
- design to your heart's content...
- even run multiple websites on single software install!

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The point is You are in control, it's practical and affordable!.

Web hosting generally based on 2 types - (1) MS Windows system and (2) on Linux system.

Get the web hosting that offers Linux with cPanel, a user friendly backend manager (there are many companies offering this, just Google for 'web hosting cPanel'), download free Drupal software, follow this tutorial and that's it. You can get your site running within hours.

All these for possibly less than USD5/= a month... and go for the monthly payment option so that you can exit anytime if you do not like the service or whatever.

Your home computer can be running on Microsoft Windows and you can still use the above service/solution.



Drupal Is A Powerful Free Web Site Software

It is licensed under the GPL and freely downloadable from the Internet at Drupal.org.

We can build simple functional Drupal web sites like Forest Lake and Doc Searls' IT Garage.

Or more sophisticated sites like Phil Wickham.

This tutorial and guide offers a practical and affordable solution for small businesses/individuals. Create a reasonably decent functional web site within hours at very low risk/costs.

Should your needs grow, consult any of the top developers/consultants at Drupal.org.

If you like to learn more, join the Drupal community, mailing list, and participate in the forums.


Teach Yourself Practical Drupal - is a tutorial and basic guide for a beginner.

This guide is based on Drupal Version 5.7 and upgraded to 5.8.

All references to the (dot)com names will be shown with an underscore in this tutorial like http://www.my_domain.com.
Note: In actual, domain names can only have letters, numbers and hypen. We cannot have the underscore.

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