Building Drupal sites that content authors love
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The document discusses the importance of creating a great user experience for content authors when building websites with Drupal. It emphasizes simplifying content publishing, automating processes, and enhancing the authoring workflow through tools like entity browsers and paragraph management. The content also highlights the need for better content staging, synchronization, and user feedback to continuously improve the author experience.
Building Drupal sites that content authors love
- 1. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love – Drupal Camp Ruhr 2018 –
- 2. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Why is a great user experience important for your authors?
- 3. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Why is a great user experience important for your authors? • Content is King! • One-to-one communication • Content becomes more complex
- 4. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Spend less time with tools but more time with content
- 5. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Build tools to make content publishing a no-brainer
- 6. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Build tools to make content publishing a no-brainer • No copy paste for content staging • Create once deploy many times • Focus on customer contact journeys not on tools • Plan it!
- 7. Please, do Drupal a favour:
- 8. Avoid shiny frontends with ugly backends!
- 9. Focus on the "author journey", too
- 10. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Focus on the "author journey", too • Which content-flexibility is needed (not possible!) • Content first to define authoring features • Which features are NOT needed?
- 11. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love • Use the „author user story mapp“ • Create mockups to manage expectations • Define content elements instead of pages
- 12. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love • Involve users early • Get feedback early • Improve continuously
- 13. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Content Staging & Content Sync
- 14. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Content Staging & Content Sync What you see is what you get? Unfortunately not really.
- 15. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Content Staging & Content Sync • Make content previews realistic • Make campaign preparation easy • Publish campaigns with a click
- 16. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Content Staging & Content Sync • Allow content publishing accross sites • Keep content synchronized • Avoid manual copy & paste work for authors
- 17. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Let authors benefit from digital automation in the same way as you want your customers to.
- 18. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Or combine these tools Tools • deploy module • NodeJS • Drupal Content Sync. • Headless Drupal
- 19. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Why is a great user experience important for your authors? • Heavily content-based • Authors have to work with the system every day • Do not make it painful for them ! • Help authors to create new content • Simple Landingpages/Sites • Authors are using the system maybe once per month • Give them a system that is easy to be understood
- 20. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Grouping fields
- 21. • Why should we group fields? • Clear arrangement • Helps authors to understand what fields are for • How should we group fields? • Put them into a logical context • How to do it in Drupal • Module: Field Groups
- 23. Just show the essential
- 24. Just show the essential • Avoid displaying fields on content creation pages which: • Are not necessary for the authors • Do not make sense to be filled in logically • How to do it in Drupal • Module: Conditional Fields
- 25. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Use Media --force
- 26. Use Media --force • Media is in core since Drupal 8.4.x • To use or not to use Media? • Just do it! • Use Entity Browsers • + Entity Browser Enhance(d|r) • Set it up over and over again? NO • Create a reusable feature • Put the feature in a composer package?
- 27. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Better referencing with Entity Browsers
- 28. Better referencing with Entity Browsers • „And now I just have to reference Mr. Müller... o.O” • Entity Browsers allow you to: • give your authors a better overview of available entities • filter the available entitles • sort the available entities • create new entities
- 29. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Paragraphs Hail to the king !
- 30. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Paragraphs • Flexible content based on „Content – Elements“ aka Paragraphs • Simple to use • Content elements can be ordered as the editors wants them to be ordered • No fix content structure • Module is well maintained
- 31. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Paragraphs Browser • Give your editors a preview of what they are going to add • Simplify their work by not just giving them a Paragraph name • Group Paragraphs by their function • Search by paragraph name
- 32. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Paragraphs BrowserParagraphs default widget
- 33. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Paragraphs preview & Paragraphs previewer
- 34. Paragraph Preview • Do not show paragraphs as „open“ • Do not show paragraphs as „closed“
- 35. Paragraph Preview • Create your authors a nice little preview
- 36. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Paragraphs Previewer • Contrib module • Live preview using the frontend theme styles • Works for already existing and new paragraphs • Resizable to show mobile layout
- 38. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Paragraphs Browser vs. Paragraphs Previewer • Currently not working together • Both bring their own field widget • We are working on a patch for both modules • Lets combine the power and be awesome !
- 39. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love It’s all about the small things
- 40. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Easy linking with linkit • Contrib module • Project: linkit • Linkit helps your authors to link content using your ckeditor. • Free SEO improvement • Links are updated when a node alias changes.
- 41. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love -> Cleanup your entity types • Remove inputs which are not relevant for your authors.
- 42. -> Automatic entity labels • Contrib Module • Project: auto_entitylabel • Reuse field values for the entity titles • Save time • Avoid confusion • Easy right? Use it J
- 43. Building websites with Drupal that content authors love Which challenges do you face in your authoring workflows?
- 44. Contact: Manuel Pistner, CEO Mail: pistner@brightsolutions.de Sebastian Gurlt, Head of Drupal Mail: gurlt@brightsolutions.de Visit our blog for content like: • Content Staging und Content Deployment mit Drupal • Inhalte in Drupal zentral über einen Content-Pool verwalten • Ein Drupal wie Redakteure es lieben – technische Serie • Drupal Deployment -> www.brightsolutions.de/blog
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