Using Drupal 6

This tutorial is aimed at anyone who wants to create a great website, without doing any scripting or programming. (It could also be helpful to you even if you are a PHP programmer starting out with Drupal – it is useful to know what Drupal is capable of before you start coding up your own modules.)

Drupal has a huge range of built in features which can be configured to determine the behaviour and appearance of your site. There are also hundreds, perhaps thousands, of contributed add-ons which members of the Drupal community have made available for others to use free of charge.

Drupal can seem a little daunting at first, due to its size and scope, but actually most individual features are quite simple. The approach of this tutorial is to work through features one at a time, learning each feature and doing some excercises before moving on to the next. Be patient, you won't learn Drupal in an hour, a day, or a week. Each time you try you will learn some more. Keep at it, and after a little while you will be able to create amazing websites, more easily than you probably think is possible.

You don't need any special skills to learn Drupal (although it is true that you can do even more with it if you learn PHP). All you really need is to set aside a bit of time to learn.

In general it is recommended that you work through this tutorial in order, especially the earliest sections, at least until you find your feet. Please read before you start first, it explains some prerequisites and conventions used in the tutorial.