Drupal Therapy Indeed

     I need a remedy. Why? I am a college student dealing with a content management system for the first time. It’s name is Drupal. Screencasts from www.drupaltherapy.com have helped me and will hopefully help other beginners to Drupal. The screencasts deal with fundamental modules thus probably not for advanced Drupal users but great for us newcomers. 

     Each screencast is “a prescription by Sean Effel.” He has a calm voice that is not distracting so viewers can pay full attention to the screencast. Effel goes through each module needed, what the module does, and how to use the modules. For instance, in the Date + Calendar screencast he turns on the modules and shows how to make an event content type along with how to make an event on a calendar. 

There are 3 screencasts for Drupal 7.

1. Wysiwyg + CKEditor screencast 
2. Pathauto + Token screencast 
3. Date + Calendar screencast 

     There are 5 older screencasts for Drupal 6 as well. These screencasts can be useful to get a sense of how other modules work. Even though the screencasts are for Drupal 6 several modules included in the screencasts such as views, imagecache, and filefield now have Drupal 7 versions or included in Drupal 7 core.

     

     To get a stronger prescription Drupaltherapy is actually more about training sessions than screencasts. They can be contacted through their website for public or private sessions. Now time to get off the long chair and start to Drupal.