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For years, Drupal site builders have endured a less than great experience with any media they wanted to use.  It was difficult to manage and reuse images; let alone video, audio, and other media.

One of OSTraining’s members wants to have a carousel slider in her site. She wants the carousel to show 3 image slides and some text below them, and the carousel to move only one position at a time when you click the “Next” button. 

Forums or message boards are an implementation of an early way of communicating, generating content and interacting through the internet, by creating threaded discussion boards, called bulletin boards.

With the Views module, it is possible to fetch pieces of data from a Drupal entity and display them according to a specific format.

Contextual filters in Drupal allow you to add or remove information (content) to the currently displayed view. The filter acts dynamically based on the URL.

Drupal is a wonderful Content Management System with tons of features that solve many problems for editors and content managers. A developer can take different approaches to achieve the same result, and the Drupal update process is no exception.

Drupal is well known for its stability and security out-of-the-box. However, we all know how dangerous the internet can be with all the risks of having your site attacked.

Your local websites are always developed within the same operating system, that is the operating system of your machine (Windows, OSX, Linux). However, the online version of your site is probably hosted on some type of Linux server.

No matter what CMS you might be using, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, etc., it's of benefit to learn some CSS to make sure you can carry your branding through your site.

Some different modules and plugins can alter the display of a view in Drupal, for instance, to alternate the order of image and text every new row, or to build some kind of stacked layout. 

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