In Understanding Drupal, the first in The Lullabot Learning Series, the Lullabot team provides an overview of Drupal as a content management system, as a web application framework, and as a developer community. It covers all the terminology and concepts for site administrators and developers. If you have ever been confused by the community and platform and are still trying to figure it out, this video is for you.

Topics include:

Content is entered and managed. Users and user permission are handled. Blocks and what they can do. The capabilities and concepts of the module system. Drupal handles navigation and its menu system. Theme changes the site layout, design, and presentation. Administrative messages and settings are included.

The video uses general concepts rather than specific how-tos for example.

I have been a Ruby on Rails developer for the last 4 years. Understanding Drupal is a great video to watch if you are new to the project. I believe that I will switch to Drupal development after building my first site.

MTV, Sony BMG Records, Lifetime Television, IBM, and Fast Company have all had their websites built by Lullabot. The team is responsible for some of the most influential and well-respected developers, consultants, and educators in the Drupal community.

In this video directed and edited by Kent Bye, a group of people sit down to tell us all about Drupal.

Kent Bye directed and edited it. 65 minutes is the run time. The download version has a high resolution file. It is. 977MB. You can download.