Web Content Management System

I really love the internet and as such have always been fascinated with building web sites. Over the years I have seen the development of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Langauge) and the different tools that are used to develop web pages.

I remember the days when each time people developed web sites they did it from nothing up, today people have realized there is no need to re-invent the wheel and there are programs that do this for us like Joomla, Drupal and others.

I personally recommend drupal. I have been using this over the past few years and have used it to develop my companies website Opportunity Knocks - Immigration Specialists. We deal with all immigration matters to the United Kingdom (UK), Canada, Holland, Spain and Germnay.

Anyway back to drupal, for me this system has been great, it has been very easy to install and to use and it works both on all platforms: Windows, Apple, Linux. I personally have it running on my live sites and my personal computer is a MacBookPro and I also run it on my localserver.

The first question I had when wanting to make a web site was:
How do I create a web site ?

This question has a million answers, some good, some not so good, hopefully mine will explain things nicely. In my next post I will get into the steps of getting a webserver running on your local computer, installing drupal on your local computer and adding themes to it.

So my plan that I will take you through will be the following:

1. Making your computer a local web server.
2. Installing a content management system - drupal
3. Configuring drupal basics
4. Learning some google tools and how to integrate them into your drupal installation.

Well that's it for the moment, will be back with the explanation on "Making my computer a local web server"