Anybody that would like to learn Drupal should know about CCK module (content construction kit). CCK is one of the most useful Drupal modules mainly because of it’s use of creating new and complex content types. In Drupal 7, CCK will be included in core.

Here is a nice introduction to Joomla CMS (content management system) made by Linda Watson on Vimeo.

This screen-cast will show you how to use ZEN theme in Drupal 5.x. ZEN is considered to be the best starting theme for Drupal because of it’s commented code and the abundance of documentation.

Screen-cast created by Drupal School.

I found a very simple video tutorial on how to use Memcache in PHP. Memcache is a general-purpose distributed memory caching system used mainly to speed up dynamic data-base driven websites.

Memcache in PHP from Jamie Rumbelow on Vimeo.

Drupal’s Panels module helps the user to visually create customized layouts by dragging and dropping the content. It is a great help for beginners or by those that doesn’t like to get dirty with module development.  This screen-cast is made by BSideStudios (www.bsidestudios.com).

One of the most important contributed module that will help you build Drupal sites faster is Views module. The main porpoise of using the Views module is to display the content in certain ways that otherwise would have need a dedicated module. Views practically gives you the ability to sort list and tables (and almost everything in Views 2)  the way you want it sorted. In this video tutorial you’ll be taught the basics of building views in Drupal 6.

I started these series of screen-cast about different CMS because I think that most of you agree that this way of building a web application is in most cases the fastest way.

In this tutorial we will see how simple it is to implement a Photoshop Design into a drupal theme in about 5 minutes.

As you may already know, Joomla is considered to be the most used CMS (Content Management System) because of it’s ease of installation  and configuration. So, that is why I though about sharing this good introductory video tutorial about Joomla made by michiganmedia.

Today I found a very good video tutorial about Drupal. The guys from lynda.com made an introductory screen-cast that should be enough for everybody to understand the basics of Drupal. It will pass you through all the important aspects of installing, configuring, customizing, and maintaining a Drupal-powered website.

As I already told you in the previous post I will start adding a new poll each month.  So, for this month I was thinking of giving you the oportunity to select and comment the CMS of your choice. I took this decision in regarding with “2008 Open Source CMS Award” given by Packt Publishing in August, 2008. Please vote for it and afterword please leave a comment and explain your choice.

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Don’t forget to comment your choice and check the Month’s Poll arhive here.