For quite a while (nearly 2 years of development) the community that is behind Drupal project pulled together to release the new version of Drupal that is 7. One of the lacks of Drupal 6 was the admin interface which was overwhelming for some users especially if the site is delivered to the client and he has to figure out everything else from than on. This video, made by hidefweb.com, talks about the new admin interface and about the improvements of Drupal 7.

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 Drupal theme because of it’s commented code and the abundance of documentation.

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. 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. Some web hosting companies provide joomla web hosting for your convenience and better user experience for your hosting service. You can read some reviews and articles to learn more about them. This good introductory video tutorial about Joomla is 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 allready 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.