Chapter 3: Setting up Your Drupal Playground

The next chapters will consist primarily of Drupal examples on how to do digital marketing with and on Drupal so you can try them on your own. In this chapter, you will learn how to set up a local development environment with the latest Drupal version to quickly try the book's examples. Since the recipes are targeted at general websites and e-commerce stores, you will learn how to set up both types of websites locally, which will already have some real content to make it more interesting.

Many of the examples in this book consist of installing and configuring Drupal modules, made available by the Drupal community, to help you achieve your marketing goals. I think that a great way to start is by learning how to install one of those modules: Digital Marketing Checklist. This is a module I developed to help you keep track of all the tasks you need to have a successful digital marketing strategy in place.

The main topics we will...