Drupal 101: Lesson 1

Ok boys and girls, here begins Drupal 101!

:)

First assignment:

• Get a notebook to use for this "class".  You will be writing down passwords and user id's that you will need to have later, and it will be very annoying to have forgotten. ;)
• Now go to:  https://docs.acquia.com/user/register
• Create an account.  You are not buying anything, I promise. ;) Write down the user id and password
• Now go to: https://www.acquia.com/downloads  and download the Dev Desktop Drupal 7 package.  This is free, Drupal is open source, and you should not ever have to pay for any of its components. 
• There are installation instructions at this link: https://docs.acquia.com/dev-desktop/install
• Write down anything that you have to fill out during the installation process.  User ID, email, password, Database name, etc...

In my opinion, and after trying out several different setups, I've decided that Acquia is by far the easiest way to get started with a local development environment. I don't work for them, and I am not affiliated with them in any way, for what it is worth. 

* I will not ever tell you to download anything that has to be paid for!!!  Everything that you will be using is open source, i.e. FREE!

EXTRA CREDIT

• Open Terminal (Applications->Utitlities->Terminal)
•  Type drush status 
• What do you see? (answer is at the bottom of the page)

EXTRA EXTRA CREDIT

• Read this: http://soundpostmedia.com/article/5-reasons-youll-love-using-drush-drupal
• Watch this: http://www.leveltendesign.com/tutorial/video/drupal-7-overview

ANSWERS:

You should see something that looks like this:

 NAME OF YOUR COMPUTER:~ nameofyouruser$ drush status
 PHP configuration     :  /Applications/acquia-drupal/php5_3/bin/php.ini
 Drush version         :  5.7                                           
 Drush configuration   :