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This is a one day seminar to be held in central Cardiff to introduce how wordpress can be an effective web presence for small hotels and guest-houses. It will provide you with the knowledge and skills to set up and run a ‘web 2′ hotel information and booking facility with very limited programming knowledge.

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This has been a good chapter and introduced a number of concepts and built on the views facility of the last chapter. One of the things to be careful of is that open source software tends to be quite dynamic and changes while paper books by their very nature are not quite so dynamic. This was seen in this chapter regarding views. It looks like some of the fields have changed names since the book was printed but it was pretty straightforward to adapt to this with a little experimentation and a tad of logic.

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Chapter 3 of Using Drupal really gets into the power of Drupal. This chapter shows how two features of Drupal 6 – CCK and Views can be used to add a lot of features and interactivity to your site. The chapter revolves around setting up a jobs notice board. I found it particularly useful for configuring one of the Drupal modules called jobsearch on one of my sites. But once I’d finished this chapter I was confident enough on these two features to build my own views and content blocks.

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I’ve just read the first two chapters of Using Drupaland I’m pretty confident that I’ve made the correct book choice for a good introduction to the Drupal CMS platform. It’s easy to read and well laid out. The first 2 chapters are pretty much an introduction to Drupal and provides a good introduction to how Drupal puts together web pages and also explains some of the important terminology that Drupal uses.

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I’ve taken the plunge and bought a book on Drupal. I think I’ve taken my Christian social networking site based on Drupal as far as I can without having any formal knowledge of Drupal CMS.  You can do just so much using intuition and hacking and smacking code to get it to work. Injecting your own code to get CMS programmes to work can be dangerous especially with popular open source programmes. These scripts tend to be targeted by hackers – it does not matter if it’s Drupal, Joomla, wordpress or zencart. The open source community is pretty quick at picking up and issuing security patches but if you’ve hacked core code or modules then you my have problems maintaining security and integrity of your site. So it’s time to learn the basics of Drupal in a more formal fashion.

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