Content Management Systems (CMS) are becoming increasingly popular
thanks to the variety of solutions that require no coding skills to upload and manage website content.
Many prefer to use open-source CMS that can be downloaded for free
without obligation. But all CMS require some degree of technical knowledge, and open source ones are often unsupported
Many users, independently from their technical background, may need to
go through a learning curve if they want to get hands on the application, especially if they want to install and use the most advanced features.
There are different ways to go about it. The most common is to start working as part of the developers community, sign up for the forum and
get involved. Get your hands dirty. Most developers and users learn as they go, and their main user guide is the documentation to be found on
the relevant websites. That is generally the most comprehensive and up
to date source of user information.
Some however, especially beginners and non tech people, may still need
the support of a manual printed on paper. Not many Open Source CMS have their own book on paper. Drupal is a popular CMS that has been
around for a number of years, and recently its 4.7 version was released.
The book entitled "Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals and Community Websites" written by David Mercer, published by PACKT
is actually a physical publication, that guides users through the installation and configuration of Drupal in a Windows environment
(because it is expected that the Linux community are sorted out already).
More and more people, irrespective of their roles and background, are learning about open source CMS. This book may be right for them.
Thirathep Chonmaitree an IT lecturer and would be Drupal adept downloaded the application and used the book as a guide to help him
along. He answers some of our questions:

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