Videocast

This video is an introduction to the Schema module. This is a great module if you'd like a peek at how your Drupal database is set up (with descriptions!) or if you are building a new module and you'd like someone else to magically create the schema for your .install file. It can also check your database and tell you if anyone has monkeyed with the way Drupal thinks it should be set up. This introduction touches on all of these features and gives a good overview on how to use this really cool module.

This video looks at using Drupal menus, specifically how to use the secondary menu concept to create a relation between your top level menu items and a child menu. Once we set them up, I play around in the theme to change up where they get displayed. I also play a bit with the CSS classes that are used. Besides learning about secondary menus, this video is also a brief intro to tweaking the page.tpl.php file of your theme.

One of the hardest things to do after getting your Drupal installation up and running is deciding which Drupal modules that you're going to use. There are literally thousands of modules to choose from, and so this can be quite a daunting task. It's even more overwhelming if you don't have a clear strategy for searching through, filtering down, evaluating and testing the viable module candidates in the vast Drupal contrib repository.

This videocast covers three modules, wrapped together to provide a flexible solution for displaying information about content ratings in a list.
VotingAPI: Central storage of votes and rating information.
Fivestar: A flexible widget for registering votes on a 1-10 star basis.
Views: The ultimate Drupal query builder, capable of pulling out lists of information from the database.

Now that CCK and Views have release candidates for Drupal 6, it's the perfect time to start hammering down on the list of modules that haven't been ported yet. This video demonstrates how anyone with basic copy/paste/modify PHP skills can help port Drupal modules. Really! It's not nearly as bad as you think. :)
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Almost all community work really "happens" in the Drupal.org issue queue. This is where the community can track all of the todos for all of our projects. Every project has a queue. This means Drupal core, contributed modules and themes and even the drupal.org website and documentation have queues. This video covers how to find the queue you need, gives a little orientation, then shows how to search for existing issues and create a new issue.

Everyone with a Drupal.org account can add new pages to the handbook. This video shows how easy it is and walks through the entire process of adding a new page for a contributed module and making an issue to get the link added to the module's project page.
This is the third video in a series that also shows how to get an account and take advantage of advanced search on Drupal.org.

This is a short video that shows how to use Drupal's advanced search feature on Drupal.org. Many people find searching on d.o overwhelming and often overlook a few easy ways to narrow down searches. This is the second video in a series about getting involved with Drupal and utilizing community resources that started with getting an account on Drupal.org.

You can get a lot more out of Drupal, the software, if you engage with the Drupal community. This video shows you the first, easy step in that direction - getting an account on the drupal.org website. The video briefly discusses why you would want to do this, walks through the sign up process, then takes a quick tour through your account and shows some handy tools that you can enable.
This is the first video in what will be a small series about ways to get more involved and use the Drupal community resources.

One of Drupal 6's nice new features allows you to install Drupal using a language other than English. This video will show you how to get a translation, extract it and run the installer with the new language. We will cover the extraction process using three methods (GUI unzip utility, command line and CPanel) because it is important to make sure it extracts properly for the installer to see it.
The video assumes you are already familiar with the basic installation process and only covers the translation part.