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Drupal has a reputation for a steep learning curve and is often described as unsuited to beginners or individual users — but with a little patience, it's entirely workable for both. Its features operate in a way that's close to programming logic, which gives you a high degree of freedom in how you build. Once you understand the rules and structure, fine-grained configurations that would be difficult or impossible in other CMSs become available as standard in Drupal.

Drupal was new to me when I started, but I was drawn in by how much freedom it offered. The depth of features available for my specific purposes gave me the feeling of a CMS made to order — and that's the attachment I still bring to using it.

A Summary of Drupal Page Creation.

The basic Drupal concepts needed for page creation ended up spanning several articles and getting hard to follow, so here's a summary to pull it all together.

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Using Content and Structure.

With Drupal, unless you configure the Structure menu to match your site's goals alongside the Content menu for page creation, you can't break out of the default page layout and compose pages freely. This article pulls that together.

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An Overview of Drupal Structure

In the previous article we established that Content is the menu for creating pages. The menu covered in this article — Structure — is where you configure everything related to page composition and site structure.

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An Overview of Drupal Content.

The Content menu is where you create the pages and blocks you actually publish in Drupal. Combined with the Structure settings covered in a separate article, it forms the basis for creating pages the way you want. This article gives an overview of Drupal's foundational page-creation feature.

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The Drupal Admin Interface.

To help make sense of Drupal, I put together an overview of the admin console menu structure — covering all eight items under Administration and explaining the core Drupal concept that separates where you use features from where you configure them.

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Page Speed Insights.

To assess whether the structure of my website is sound and to check for any display performance issues, I run the pages I built with Drupal through PageSpeed Insights — Google's publicly available performance evaluation tool — and take a look at the scores.

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Drupal Modules in Use.

Version information for the Drupal Core, theme, and modules currently running on this website. The modules are focused on functionality — breadcrumbs, meta tags, reCAPTCHA, and external SMTP via AWS SES — with design left to Bootstrap5's defaults.

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Summary of the Lightsail Setup Articles.

Over five articles I covered Amazon Lightsail — from AWS registration and IAM setup through Drupal installation, domain configuration, Amazon WorkMail, and the contact form with SES. This article brings them together as a summary, along with my overall impressions of AWS after using it for the first time.

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Setting Up the Contact Form and SES.

I configure the email account on my AWS domain as the recipient for the contact form, but a send error appears and it won't work. This article covers tracing the cause of the error and resolving it.

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Amazon Work Mail.

I registered a domain through Route 53, but found no built-in function for assigning email accounts to it. After searching, I came across Amazon WorkMail and decided to give it a try.

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