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Understanding views

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Understanding views

When I created lynda.com's Drupal 6 Essential Training course, the number one thing people in the Drupal community ask me was, did you cover Views? You see Views is the number one module out there. Many Drupal sites simply couldn't function without it. And in fact, it's installed on about two-thirds of all Drupal sites, according to this statistics. But Views is a huge subject. So I split it off into a separate course, Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, and that's still current in available on lynda.com. Although, its title is Drupal 6, you can still use it with Drupal 7. With all this going on with Views, I think it needs at least an introduction here because chances are good that you too will be using it. This video gives you the conceptual foundation to understand Views and then the next to, we will show you the basics of implementing them. I have already installed Views, which you can get at drupal.org/project/views. I have also installed a module it depends on which is called…

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