Drupal: Collaborative Web Tools for Transportation Libraries
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This document discusses the content management system Drupal and how it can be used to build different types of websites. It explains that Drupal allows for customized themes, content types like blogs, pages, forums and menus. These tools provide a common structure that can be styled uniquely for different sites, audiences and purposes. The document outlines how Drupal organizes content into blocks and nodes to display through themes and bring together a full website beyond just individual content pieces.
Drupal: Collaborative Web Tools for Transportation Libraries
- 1. Drupal“Collaborative Web Tools for Transportation Libraries” A case study of a performance management pathfinder 101st Annual SLA Conference GTRIC Roundtable
- 2. Sitesthat run Drupal…
- 3. White House
- 5. The Onion
- 6. All Three DifferentThree different websitesUnique designsDiverse audiencesWith specialized purposesThe same underlying structure
- 8. Theme filesHundreds of themeswww.drupal.org/project/themesContained in .zip filesPremade .css, .php, and .html filesTo edit theme just edit the filerequires knowing what you editRange of types
- 9. Your ServerUnzip the downloaded themeUpload using ftp clientget access through I.T. deptdrag and drop with most toolsAutomatically usableoften with specialized options
- 10. Open SourceThemes are freeusually want to attribute if editingcreative commons licensesgood for “on the cheap” projectsSupportive communityCan get in touch with developersAdheres to programming standards
- 11. State Stats
- 12. Look Familiar?
- 13. Creatingsome content for users
- 14. Types of content?blogs forumspages commentsstories and more…menus
- 15. Blogs and PagesDrupal blogsposts repeated pages in a listallows commentsDrupal pagesequivalent of static HTML pagecan edit using WYSIWYG editorbread and butter of content
- 17. Forums and CommentsDrupal commentsall comments managed internallylike with blogs but on everythingcan block certain words Drupal forumsspecialized “discussion” zoneutilizes login system built-in
- 18. Stories and MenusDrupal storiessimilar to a blogmore informal and shorterDrupal menusties content types together links to specific content types on pagesturns “content” into a “website”
- 19. OrganizationMore complex than just content typesContent organized into blocks and nodesSystem tells multiple themes how to display contentLike “the force” and binds togetherWon’t go over for now
- 21. Some ApplicationsUsed plug-in to display separate themes on different pages Built site exclusively withmenuspagesforumsLinked to and created content
- 22. Not the Same