Drupal4uic 2008 04 25
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This document introduces Drupal, an open source content management system. It provides an overview of what Drupal is, its history and origins, how it works, popular modules that extend its functionality, themes, the Drupal community, and resources for learning more. The presentation encourages experimenting with Drupal locally and getting involved with the active Drupal community.
Drupal4uic 2008 04 25
- 1. Introduction to Drupal by Leo Klein Web Coordinator OAR, UIC
- 2. Leo Klein (Elevator Speech) Web Coordinator : OAR, UIC Colleges attended: UIC, Sorbonne, FU (Berlin), Queens College (CUNY), ITP (NYU) Jobs attended: Bobst Library (NYU), Newman Library (Baruch College, CUNY), COE (UIC) Interests: Web Design, Usability Personal Website: www.LeoKlein.com Blog: ChicagoLibrarian.com
- 3. HUGE DISCLAIMER I Know What I Know
- 4. Small Disclaimer It's 'Content Management' Not 'Content Organization'
- 5. Is it Time to CMS? Large amounts of similar data: events, news, other media, etc. Feature requests: calendar, forums, blogs, galleries, etc. Multi-user Environment: password-protected content, expanded range of people providing content Server-Side: Access to Server-side resources and someone to maintain system
- 7. Drupal in Education Amherst College Ohio State - Math Dept. Wash. Univ. – Arts & Sci. BYU – Comp. Sci.
- 9. Drupal Born – 2001* Originally developed by Dries Buytaert and fellow students at the University of Antwerp 2001 – Initial Release of Drupal 2004 – Drupal taken up by Dean Campaign 2005 to now: High Profile Conversions (Onion.com, Observer.com, Amnesty International) From " Community Plumbing " to " Roll-Your-Own Push Button CMS " * More Info: http://drupal.org/node/769
- 10. Drupal.org
- 12. Joys & Sorrows of Open Source It’s Free It’s Open It’s Innovative (sometimes) It’s "Scratch Your Own Itch” It’s Frustrating It's Fun
- 13. Types of Users
- 14. SW-HW*: Server running either Apache or IIS PHP (Scripting Language) MySQL or PostgreSQL Human: Person comfortable installing the above three “ Some assembly required ” Requirements ______ * http://drupal.org/requirements
- 15. Drupal in 3 Parts
- 16. Drupal Core What You Get 'Out of the Box' Essential Features (Node, Block, Taxonomy, Theme Engine, Comments, RSS) 'Legacy' Features (Story, Forum, Blog)
- 18. Contributed Modules "Building Blocks" of Drupal Hundreds to Choose from Most Essential Modules: Content Construction Kit Views ImageCache Organic Groups
- 19. Life & Death of a Drupal Module Modules are built for a specific purpose and for a specific release of Drupal How to Tell if a Module is Alive and Kicking -- or in the 'Deadpool': Recent updates? Recent Support Questions/Issues? Attitude of Maintainers (Helpful or Not)?
- 20. Themes Amor Azul Imagination NewsFlash SEO Position
- 21. Drupal Roadmap Drupal 6.0 (Feb. 2008) Improvements: Installation Theming Internationalization Drupal 7.0 (Feb. 2009?) Incorporation of CCK & Views into Core
- 22. Drupal as a Community Open Source encourages - and requires – an open, responsive Social Organization Great team of Developers (some local in Illinois) Learn the terrain & benefit from It
- 23. Other Helpful Sites Lullabot Wonderful source for podcasts and other high quality information on Drupal - http://www.lullabot.com DrupalDojo Extensive collection of screencasts and other "lessons" http://drupaldojo.com Mastering Drupal Number of good screencasts http://www.masteringdrupal.com/ Dries Buytaert's Blog Personal Blog of Drupal's Founder - http://buytaert.net
- 24. Drupal Groups Drupal in Education (378 members) http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-education Chicago User Group (General) http://groups.drupal.org/chicago Chicago Meetup Group http://cdmug.org/ Drupal4UIC http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/drupal4uic.html
- 25. Leo Klein’s Drupal Tips Try "Sandboxes" at OpenSourceCMS.com Experiment locally Follow the forums at Drupal.org Join a Drupal Group (http://groups.drupal.org) Check out the competition Ultimately: Bend the CMS to your needs (& not the other way around)
- 26. Happy Drupaling! Leo Robert Klein lrk 'at' uic 'dot' edu msn/aim/ghoo/yhoo: 'leorobertklein' www.LeoKlein.com