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.

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).

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.

Drupal is not like the average open source CMS software. It is powered by its’ lightweight core, the simplicity of use, the thousand of contributors that are constantly updating and upgrading it and the thousand of customised free plugins that you can use to achieve your on-line purpose. Drupal is not only a CMS (content management system) but a content management framework too. Why is it a framework too? Well tha’s symple, just because it is geared more towards configurability and customisation.