Thank you for visiting our website. I am a beginner, but I mainly write articles about Drupal.
I started building and managing websites after I turned 50. In order to keep my interest in things alive as I get older, I write articles about the things I like, the things I'm passionate about, and the events that have left a lasting impression on me, and I record them on the website I've built myself. The name of the site, Interest, means interest or concern. I named it with the intention of reminding myself not to lose my interest in things.
Article Topic.
The themes are divided into two main categories.
- I write mainly about Drupal, summarising things related to website construction in the form of Creation.
- I also summarise things related to lifestyle in the form of Life Style, and have transplanted and re-organised the lifestyle themes that I originally created using WordPress.
There are a lot of unnecessarily long ramblings, so the articles are difficult to read, but I hope you will read them and be interested in them.
About the Domain.
The domain name is ‘inter-est01.com’. Ideally, the domain name would be the same as the site name, such as ‘interest.com’, but of course, such domains are already in use by other people. I thought about whether there was a domain name that was similar to the word ‘interest’, and I came up with the domain name by splitting the word ‘interest’ into ‘inter’ and ‘est’.
The English translation of ‘inter’ is ‘between’. The Italian translation of ‘est’ is ‘accidental discovery’. We decided on the domain by combining these two words with the number 01.
I started making websites after I turned 50. As you get older, your mind becomes more inflexible and you start to forget things more easily, so it's not like when you were younger. By making websites myself, I've come to notice many things that I hadn't been aware of before, such as web technology and network systems, and even things like web page design that I had just been looking at without thinking about it.
Things that are obvious to people who are always involved in work are new discoveries for me as a layperson. The things I discover every day are small, but when I find them I'm happy and it's so much fun that I never get bored.
With the spread and evolution of CMS, it is now possible for individuals who are not experts to easily build websites. I use Drupal from among the many CMS. If it were a personal blog, WordPress would be suitable, but I chose Drupal because I was attracted by its ability to organise and summarise huge amounts of text data and information in an easy-to-read format, and its flexibility in terms of construction.
Drupal is used on the websites of public institutions and large companies, and is said to be more suitable for companies and organisations with a certain scale than for individuals. Compared to WordPress, which is used by many individuals, Drupal is not suitable for beginners and has a high threshold for use, requiring specialist knowledge. Despite this difficult image, Drupal can be used by individuals too, provided they have a certain level of learning awareness.
As I am learning and using Drupal, I am also writing articles about the process of building a website. There are some cases where my knowledge is lacking or the articles are unclear, but I would be happy if you took an interest in them and took a look.
The reasons for using Drupal are summarised below.
The reason I chose Drupal is that I myself tend to come up with ideas for articles on the spur of the moment. As a result, I tend to write a lot of long rambling articles, and end up writing multiple articles that are similar to each other.
This makes the articles and their structure scattered and difficult to read, and the message I want to convey becomes blurred. The reason I chose Drupal is that it has a standard function that allows me to use a simple and easy-to-use function to neatly summarise and announce articles and their structure.
Organising Information
- One of the features of Drupal is its extensive functionality for organising large amounts of documents and information. Although it was originally designed for use on large-scale websites, it is also a highly user-friendly and versatile tool for individual users.
- The ability to freely reuse and arrange information using the Views function, and the ability to freely combine blocks and content to create pages, as well as the ease of use, are the advantages of using Drupal.
- The speed of rendering is also excellent for building websites with a large amount of information, thanks to caching for each process.
- The degree of freedom in authority management makes it easy to build systems with multiple users and to implement a tiered notification system for users who view the system.
- You need to understand the structure and rules of the program's grammar, which is set using a GUI interface, but once you understand it, you have a high degree of freedom in construction and it is easy to achieve the functions you want.
There are also many other excellent functions.From now on, I would like to use the excellent functions while studying and summarising articles.
Professional Tools
- Drupal is often used for large-scale projects such as corporate websites, and it seems that it is more often used by developers who build corporate websites and systems for companies, rather than by individuals.
- In the case of orders, I see cases where Drupal is chosen as a development option, and it is used to deliver and propose not only standard functions, but also customised programmes in response to requests, so I think it is more often used by developers for companies than by individuals.
- The CMS features a GUI-based administration screen that allows you to build and publish websites, and a website that is built using the administration screen and actually published. This makes it easy for people who are not developers or engineers to build websites simply by using a mouse or entering text in a text editor, and to publish them in the form you want.
- Generally speaking, the image of a CMS is that it is used by general users, not developers. Even for developers, creating a management system from scratch is a lot of work, so they use the convenient functions of a CMS to customise it and reduce the time and cost of building it from scratch. In such cases, Drupal is chosen, and from the perspective of a general user like me, it feels like a professional-spec CMS.
As an individual who is not a specialist like the developer, it is difficult to customise the system itself and build a website exactly as you want, but the fact that I wanted to use a CMS that also supports professional specifications is also a reason why I chose Drupal.
I will be writing articles about the process of building a website using Drupal as an individual, despite my own limited knowledge, and I hope that this will be of use to anyone who is interested. As I am not an expert, I do not touch the code, and I build websites using the functions provided in the Drupal administration screen.
I started writing articles about Drupal because I found the high degree of freedom involved in setting up Drupal to be interesting, and I felt a strong sense of customisation that I hadn't felt with WordPress. I feel like it's a customised CMS that I've tailored to my own specifications, and I have a strong attachment to it, so I'd like to convey that interesting aspect in my articles.
Drupal and all themes and modules related to Drupal are open source and are built by developers from around the world on a volunteer basis. As we use open source, we would like to make some kind of contribution, but as I am not a developer myself, it is difficult for me to volunteer for development, so I would like to think of it as a way for individuals to use Drupal and become part of its spread.
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