Brief Intro to Drupal
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Drupal is a popular open source content management system (CMS) with an active community. It has many roles like designers, themers, front-end developers, and developers. Drupal has distributions preconfigured for specific uses and resources include documentation, hosting, books, and camps. While powerful, Drupal can be complex, requiring knowledge of multiple technologies.
Brief Intro to Drupal
- 1. GETTING STARTED WITH DRUPAL Johnnie Fox
- 2. DRUPAL UPSIDES? • Drupal is Popular • Drupal has Negative Un-Employment • Drupal is open source. • Widely available (free) training • Active Community • You don’t have to know everything to be productive
- 3. DOWNSIDES TO DRUPAL • Powerful = Complex • Its a stack of stuff to know • Programming skills may not always help you • Not every problem is a Drupal Problem
- 4. ROLES IN DRUPAL SHOPS • Designer/Graphics Builds wireframes and mockups. Graphics to be used in the site. Needs to be Drupal Aware. • Themer- Builds the theme in drupal. Has heavy knowledge of .CSS and HTML. May also know some PHP for theming functions.
- 5. • Front End Developer - Builds sites using mostly the admin interface • Developer - Builds Modules and custom functionality using PHP/Theme Layer/Drupal API • Project Manager / Customer account rep - manages the tasks of completing the work and the client interaction/expectations. Can be 2 different roles
- 6. DRUPAL DISTRIBUTIONS • DrupalDistributions are premade drupal install profiles that are configured for a specific use case/application. • Managing News - Rss Aggregator/news feeder www.managingnews.com • Open Atrium - bug/case tracker www.openatrium.com • OpenPublish - News publishing platform www.openpublishapp.com
- 7. • Drupal Commons - Social networking for business http://acquia.com/products-services/drupal- commons-social-business-software • CiviCRM - Drupal distro for NGO, Non-Profit and advocacy groups • Open Church www.openchurchsite.com • OpenEnterprise - Business website distribution www.leveltendesign.com/enterprise
- 8. RESOURCES • Drupal.org • gotdrupal.com • google - just search for it
- 9. • aquia installer - network.acquia.com/downloads • Xampp - install your own • Drupal gardens FREE hosting Drupal 7 www.drupalgardens.com • Books - • Using Drupal - Angela Byron et all. • Drupal Camps - Nashville, Atlanta, Asheville • IRC - drupal.org/irc
- 10. ABOUT ME Cat Herder Fire Fighter Bad Dancer Project Manager Researcher Programmer Johnnie Fox Twitter: @johnniefox www.musiccitynetworks.com www.johnniefox.com Real Time Data