Before you read

This quick guide is made for Symphony Themes customers to use our free and premium Drupal themes. It is written for Drupal 6 and Drupal 7. Drupal technology has advanced a great deal from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, however, the administration flow is similar. 

What this tutorial cover

Follow this tutorial quick guide "Master Drupal in 7 hours"

  1. Hour 1: Hosting requirement, covers all requirements that you need to run Drupal sites in a hosting.
  2. Hour 2: Installation, explains how to set up a Drupal site from our out-of-the-box packages. It comes with the wizard, so you can setup the site by just clicks.
  3. Hour 3: Basic customization, covers all steps to upload your own content to the site. After that, you can launch it to public. 
  4. Hour 4: Advanced customization, presents more advanced techniques if you want to further customize the site.
  5. Hour 5: SEO, explores some basic rules before doing SEO and then Drupal SEO techniques.
  6. Hour 6: Ongoing administration, gives you neccessary routine work to keep your site healthy.
  7. Hour 7: Upgrade site, shows how to upgrade your site when the Drupal core or modules release new versions.

After these 7 guides, you can now master a Drupal site with confident. We wrote this tutorial using our best practices when working with many customers. 

eBook version

The Drupal 7 version is also release as an ebook.

Feedbacks

This tutorial is made by the Symphony team. We need your comments to make it better. We are appreciated your feedbacks to info [at] symphonythemes.com.