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Welcome to the "Advanced Site Building" collection. In this series, we're going to be covering
many of Drupal's most powerful modules for laying out and displaying information on a
site. The tools you'll be learning are ones that you'll find yourself using on nearly
every Drupal project.
We'll be exploring how to build complicated displays of content with the Views module.
How to lay out pieces of a page using Panels, Display Suite and Context. We'll explore how
to import content using the Feeds module and how to create and modify a slideshow with
the Views Slideshow module. We'll also look at displaying and manage content on a site
as well as how to protect our site from the inevitable spam we'll get. We'll dive into
which modules are helpful for speeding up the administration of your site, but most
importantly, we're going to explore how all of these pieces fit together; where these
modules overlap in functionality, and how to decide which tools are right for which
context. There's a lot of modules out there, and figuring out which ones are right for
a particular job is hard. And if you start with the wrong tools, you could find it time
consuming and frustrating to change gears later on.
So, this collection of videos will speed you through the process of how to pick the right
tools and will expose you to ways of thinking about these tools that will really pay off
in the long run.
If you already have a little experience with Drupal, or have watched the "Build Your First
Drupal 7 Web Site" collection, you'll already know what you need to in order to start with
these videos. If you don't have that experience, you may find that we gloss over some basic
Drupal concepts. But for the most part, you should be able to follow along without a problem.
So that said, let's go ahead and start by looking at the project we're going to be working
on throughout these videos.