Drupal 9 and lightning
If you want to try building a website using Drupal the best way to go about it is to use the lightning profile. The Lightning profile is a set of modules that make Drupal easier to use. You can find out more at http://lightning.acquia.com . It's built by the same people that are the main backers of the Drupal project. So you'll be in good hands. Drupal 9 just came out and you can install it using lightning, with a few extra steps. First follow the steps to make your machine PHP compatible. I own a Mac so I followed the steps on https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-catalina-apache-multiple-php-versions with PHP 7.4 enabled. With PHP installed we need the Composer Dependency Manager to install drupal which you can get from https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md . Once you've installed composer you can use it to create your Drupal project with the following instruction in a terminal: $ composer create-project acquia/lightning-project todo $ cd todo $ composer install -vv...