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What is Drupal?

Compiled by Mark Melia,Enovation Solutions, 2013

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Agenda

Introduction

Drupal overview

Migration common considerations

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What is Drupal?

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FreeOpen source A Content Management System (CMS) A Content Management Framework

(CMF)Community drivenModularFlexiblePretty (provided time is spent on

theme)

Drupal is:

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Who is using Drupal?

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For each week beginning on the given date, the figures show the number of sites that reported they are using a given version of Drupal.

Lots of people are using Drupal!

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What does Drupal look like?

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Source: www.economist.com

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Source: www.whitehouse.gov

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Source: www.gouvernement.fr

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Source: www.data.gov.uk

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Source: www.nsw.gov.au

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Source: www.dcu.ie

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Source: www.gaa.ie

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Source: www.iob.ie

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Drupal make-upNodesContent creationTaxonomyMenuViewsPermissions

Drupal Terminology

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See Notes for explanation

Drupal Make-up

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Nodes

All data in common formatNodes have

Content types Metadata Comments Published?

Modules know what they are dealing with Show content here Show it like this

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Content Creation

Content types Customisable by administrator Create new content types

• Map location– Name– Description– GPS co-ordinates– Summary– Post code

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Taxonomy

What is a taxonomy?

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Taxonomy in Drupal

Node organisation – categories, tags or metadata

Define taxonomy vocabularies that make sense Location Department

Taxonomy should be driven by business needs Are the sub-sections needed? Content that should be shared? How do we group content?

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Menu in Drupal

Main menu Links drive main navigation

structureSecondary menusSpecify which nodes appear in which

menusCentral consideration for site

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Views

Nodes can be mixed and matchedViews define what node elements we

want to see (e.g. only show future ‘event content types’, archive past ‘event content types’.)

Defined using Search criteria Menu structure

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Blocks

Box visible in a specific region of a node

Specify on block which nodes to display on

Nodes have regions (e.g. left side, right side, content pane etc)

Regions defined by the skin/theme

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Drupal Permissions

User rolesPermissions assigned to rolesSpecific nodes have permissions to:

Edit View

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Look and Feel

ThemeHow pages look Branding, corporate lookDifferent pages can be defined for

different content types.Responsive design

Bootstrap

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How do I edit

WYSIWYG Login using specific addressEditing bar appears on the top of the

website Content editing tools and links appear

once logged in

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Text editor

FamiliarEasy to understandEasy to use

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Revision Control

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Promoting to Pages

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Common Considerations when moving to Drupal

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Can I do an events calendar?

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https://drupal.org/project/calendar

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Surveys

Available from webform ModuleSimple, intuitiveDefine questionsValidationConditional branching through the

formOnline analysisDownload for Excel

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RSS and Social Media

RSS out of the box - ?q=rss.xmlSocial Media

https://drupal.org/project/socialmedia

https://drupal.org/project/easy_social https://drupal.org/project/sharethis

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Mobile/SFF

SFF: Small Form FactorsWhat is the requirement for

Mobile?

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Mobile/SFF Considerations

Responsive Design?What mobile browsers?Media

Flash MP4 Images

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Video

How do you want to host? Drupal? External and embed?

Browsers?Who do want to upload? Drupal allows

permissions for uploading video.

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Accessibility

Core conforms to WCAG2.0 and ATAG2.0

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Editing Content

Who will edit the pages?Will departments take ownership?Editorial approval process?Authentication?Drupal allows configurable permissionsEasy!

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Drupal – more than technology

Community Lots of people doing interesting stuffEngage with communityRelease to the community

The community will keep it up to date

Respected member of community What’s on the roadmap – you

decide.

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Enovation Solutions: Who are we?

eLearning and Learning

Management

Personal Portfolios

Web Content Management

Knowledge Management

Learning Content

Repositories

Document and Records

ManagementManaged

Open Source

Solutions

Integrated Services

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