Creating online forms with profiles
Until this point, most of our attention has been spent understanding CiviCRM's administrative interface and customizing/configuring the system to meet your organization's needs. However, the power of CiviCRM isn't fully realized until you begin to collect and expose data to your website.
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If you are using Drupal as your CMS, you can use Drupal Webforms in combination with the Webform CiviCRM Integration extension to expose and collect data on your website rather than use CiviCRM profiles.
It's not uncommon for organizations to have very disjointed systems collecting and maintaining their constituent data. Perhaps you have a central database, such as MS Access, that is used by staff to track your members or donors and is stored on your office network. Several staff people may be maintaining spreadsheets with information relevant to their job functions, and which they need access to while traveling, or away from the office network. Perhaps...