Drupal: Community Plumbing for Public Libraries
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Drupal is an open-source content management system (CMS) that is highly extensible and compliant with web standards. It supports various functionalities for web development, including blogs, forums, and dynamic content management, and has a large community of developers contributing to its growth. The platform is free to use and offers extensive customization options through its numerous modules and themes.
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Drupal: Community Plumbing for Public Libraries
- 1. Drupal: Community Plumbing Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS Library Services Manager OPLIN [email_address] druplicon Some content & graphics courtesy of Isriya Paireepairit
- 2. {Dutch} druppel pronounces Drupal {English} means drop {English}
- 3. What is Drupal? Content management system (CMS) Open source (GPL) Mostly/entirely W3C compliant Extremely extensible
- 4. What can you do with it? Small or large scale web sites Blogs Collaborative authoring environments Forums Newsletters Podcasts /videos/images File uploads and downloads Tags Limit access by role A heck of a lot more…
- 25. What does it take to run? Apache/IIS PHP MySQL/PostgreSQL Patience
- 26. Drupal You
- 28. Things to think about….
- 29. So why climb the cliff? It’s all free! No commercial vendor Little to no licensing worries Runs on multiple platforms Dynamic Highly customizable
- 30. So why climb the cliff? (con’t) Re-theming capability (CSS) Granular level of customization Huge community
- 31. 600+ developers for core 800+ developers for contributions 600+ modules 250+ themes 40 languages localization source: knaddison.com/book/export/s5/475 (2007 numbers)
- 33. Source: Drupal booklet
- 34. Contributions Modules Core (optional) Core (required)
- 35. Core (required) • Block - box display • Filter - input format • Node - content • System - admin, theming, ... • User • Watchdog - logging
- 36. Core (optional) Blog Comment Forum Menu Locale Path Poll Profile Search Statistics Taxonomy Uploads
- 38. The future of Drupal
- 39. More info… Drupal.org Groups.drupal.org #drupal and #drupal-support on IRC @drupal, @drupal_modules & @drupal_themes
- 42. The Drupal Song