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Drupal Web Design Series - Episode 10 - How to Install Custom Drupal Module

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Drupal Web Design Series - Episode 10 - How to Install Custom Drupal Module

This is episode 10 in our Drupal Web Design Series. By now, you will have successfully enabled some of the default Drupal modules. You are probably amazed by how powerful they can be...and how easy they are to install! So know you probably want to install more modules to add more functionality to your site. In this tutorial, we will go over how to download modules from drupal.org and install them on your website. Enjoy!

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The Drupal Cumulus Module

I simply love Drupal's CMS. I love it so much that I use it for all the sites I design and maintain. It allows a person like me with a programming background and understanding of coding languages to put together a website relatively easy with little to no actually coding required. Granted, there is a huge learning curve to learning how to use Drupal, but that's simply because it is ridiculously powerful and can basically do anything.

But I love finding new modules to play around with. The one I just installed is called Cumulus, you can see it on the left side of this screen with a title of Popular Content. Basically it tags the vocabulary I created which I tag all my content on my site with keywords and then drupal calculates how many times these keywords appear and then Cumulus takes it and represents it visually in a 3d rotating space. Really cool if you ask me.

If your into creating things and tinkering around, and wouldn't mind throwing together a website, I definitely recommend diving into drupal and start with a basic site, and you will soon get consumed and just keep adding and adding onto your site. It's fun playing around and seeing what you can create!

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