How to build a personal website with Drupal

[TIMI]

Personal websites are often created by individuals to contain content of a personal nature. The content can be about that particular person or about something which interests them. Personal web pages may be for information or entertainment purposes. Several people maintain personal websites because they are the most effective medium to express their opinions or to display creative endeavours that, otherwise may not have an other outlet. An example is a personal site built to contain creative outputs such as short stories or samples of artwork.
Typically a personal website contain images, text and these days even audio and video clips and downloadable files. It may contain biographical information, résumés, and blogs. It may include information about the owner's hobbies and pastimes; it may include information of interest to friends and family of the owner. Academic professionals especially have the need to create and store personal web documents, for access of their students and the interested general public. A personal site is important to anyone willing to share their achievement with the world.

In this article I show you step by step and free of charge how I created a personal web site for Isaac Meredith Smart , a professor of Sociology at Drupelburg University using Drupal - http://www.packtpub.com/article/building-personal-site-using-drupal-6

 

[Dawg]

Doesn't load for me.
Isn't Drupal a bit more than is needed for a personal website? Good old WordPress would do any and all the things you mentioned, and load quickly..

 

[faultydesktop]

Drupal is more for the experienced that want to have flexability with their coding. As the above post says!

Wordpress is your answer!

 

[tradedemon]

Drupal has some great community features so if you want your site to grow into a content/community site then it's sometimes the choice to go with over wordpress. However if as has already been said you just want a simple content site, then wordpress will always be the way forward...

 

[jamesdoran]

go to garry-bain.com for drupal

 

[edmondscommerce]

Drupal is an awesome piece of kit. Like Magento it recently won an award for the best Enterprise Open Source Enterprise Software.

That doesn't mean its easy to get up an running and is totally overkill for a personal site.

Yep wordpress is the answer (which also won an award)

 

[Henry Mori]

Drupal has some great community features so if you want your site to grow into a content/community site then it's sometimes the choice to go with over wordpress. However if as has already been said you just want a simple content site, then wordpress will always be the way forward...

With the arrival of BuddyPress for Wordpress, Wordpress is quickly catching up in the community features space as well. Having used both, Wordpress is more user friendly at the outset and just as powerful if you're handy with PHP and Javascript.

Also worth noting just so you know it exists (in case you didn't) is Movable Type with its Motion social media platform. I'm not a great fan of its Perl-variant scripting and lack of a developer platform if you will (they killed it for me when they moved support forums from PhPBB to their own)

I would go with Wordpress with Buddypress if it were me - just make sure you are selective with plugin installs because as tempting as the huge selection looks, some are better than others and some are just annoying when their activation breaks other features on your site!

 

[webhostuk]

Hello,

Surely Drupal is great is easy to use and secure as well.

 

[wykthorr]

I don't think going for Drupal to power a personal site is a great choice.

I remember seeing a presentation on Drupal by somebody in the Drupal community here in Romania and it looks like it's way too complicated to be suited for a personal website. It's too flexible for what the average user will need and that flexibility comes at a high price in therms of usability. It's going to be a great pain for somebody without web-dev experience.

 

[Medden Website Design]

I love using drupal - but I agree that for a personal site - a bit too much...

 

[Darkie]

Interesting. Is there an option of editing design of a personal website with Drupal? And what about domain name? Is there a possibility to somehow use the domain name I had purchased?

 

[Jason2244]

Interesting. Is there an option of editing design of a personal website with Drupal? And what about domain name? Is there a possibility to somehow use the domain name I had purchased?

This is a big problem with Drupal. It's restrictive on what you can change. If you want to use your own design and you know html and css then textpattern is the best