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MAKING THE SWITCH: PART 1, EVALUATING DRUPAL
Top 5 Things to Consider
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Kicking the tiresWhat stage are you at?
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You have to make a decision...
• Starting from scratch?• Switching from another CMS?• Vendor going out of business.
• Can’t afford license cost and upgrade.
• Switching from no CMS?• Hand built website, Dreamweaver.
• Consolidating multiple properties?• Tower of Babel of Technology.
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mjskok.com/resource/2013-future-open-source-7th-annual-survey-results
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http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrixWednesday, August 21, 13
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Data as of 12 March 2012
Data as of 20 August 2013
Sourcehttps://drupal.org/Wednesday, August 21, 13
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trends.builtwith.com/cms
Drupal is 6.66% of top million
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trends.builtwith.com/cms
Drupal is 13.7% of top 10k
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Things we won’t cover
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mjskok.com/resource/2013-future-open-source-7th-annual-survey-results
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Total cost of ownership• The return on investment in free software
acquia.com/resources/collateral/total-cost-ownership-open-source-software
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Security
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Great resources
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Hosting• What hosting is the right choice for you?
acquia.com/resources/whitepapers/get-grip-hosting-costs-your-high-volume-website
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• Migration toolkit and checklist
Migration
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So, what is this session all about?
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mjskok.com/resource/2013-future-open-source-7th-annual-survey-results
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What do you need to know?• You need enough
technical skills to...
• Build a proof of concept?
• Integrate your CRM with Drupal and distribute content across 5 international sites?
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Go Bake! (?)
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Making bread is easy! (?)
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Learning takes time
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Learning journey• Starts • When you first come around to kick the tires.
• Continues • As you develop your plans.
• As your team learns to use the tools.
• As technology changes under your feet.
• Ends? Never!• The web as an industry is a never ending
learning journey.
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Learning journey• We help you get started• By learning the essentials
• We provide structured training
• We help you develop• Developing knowledge through iterative
development and testing
• We provide Professional services
• Ends? Never! • Support services.
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Peel back the layers
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Case studies
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How did they do that?
Case example
A form to allowanonymous users to upload content
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How did they do that?
Case example
Drupal’s UI
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The assembled web
Architecture to rapidly “assemble” experiences from building-blocks instead of code sites from scratch.
Drupal core Drupal + recommendedmodules
Solution Distributions
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AN OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY
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mjskok.com/resource/2013-future-open-source-7th-annual-survey-results
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OSS + Open APIs = Innova0on Age
Show all results. Emphasize strong support for Open APIs.
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Open source != free• Free as in speech! Yes!• Read the source code
• Make modifications as you need
• Requires investment of time and effort• Learn to use it, learn to collaborate.
• Contribute and see your changes committed!
• Commercial software also requires customization, tweaking, maintaining, etc. and you pay for it and don’t have control.
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Open Source?• Drupal is GPL 2.0 License• Free to read, use and modify.
• Do I have to give away my code? No.
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Invest in your team
Photos from code sprints By muir.ceardach http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceardach Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
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Learn at events
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Social and business network
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Contribute
$200 / € 160 per year fororganizations.
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WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT DRUPAL
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Example: Powerful search
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Florida hospitals• Mobile site• Convenient
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Doctor search• Faceted search• Simplifies complex
options• Users can expand
to see “more options”
• Localized search
floridahospital.com/find-a-doctor?lat=28.5731323&lng=-81.3706776
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Customized search results
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Many options• Custom code output
in template files- Could be difficult to
alter and maintain.
• Display Suite- Comes with the DS
module.
• Apache Solr Panels- Difficult to implement
but useful if you use Panels site-wide.
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Display Suite
Arrange “fields” in content into
columns
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Changes?
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Flexibility
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Flexibility
Change column layout quickly
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Flexibility!
Change image format quickly
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Coming soon: Course on Search
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EASE OF CUSTOMIZATION
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Example: Simple content submission
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Course summary line
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innovate.direct.gov.uk/node/add/apps?op=Submit+an+App
Requirements• Innovate developer
site • Allow developers to
submit apps.• Moderate
submissions before publishing
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Drupal content type field configuration
Field configuration
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Example: Localized content
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Integrated content store (local + aggregation)
SocialFB/Twitter
Primary site
Email campaign
Videoportal
Mobile application
Community site
Measurement and reporting
Rich media assets User generated content
Marketing automation
CRM Feeds
Flexible, Open, Best of Breed
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Suggests nearby stores
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Local content 300+ stores
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Workbench moderation
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MANAGING CONTENT LAYOUT AND DESIGN
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Data/content firstnot structure first
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What you may be thinking
example.com news
aboutmasthead
politicssports
contactYour mental
site map
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Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Structure first?Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Front page Inner, full pageFront page
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Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Structure first?Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Front page Full page
?
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Display of contentGooglehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Full pageFront page
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Structured content
Image
Title
Location
Tags
Body text
Author
Date
Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Show 2 most recent.Image as square thumbnail. Body text up to 100 words
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Structured content
Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Image
Title
Location
Tags
Body text
Author
Date
Show 9 per page with pagination.Image as thumbnail. Author link to profile. Short date.
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London.gov.uk
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Example: Community sites
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Group info exchange• Open and private
groups. • Open or moderated
access. • Post to multiple
groups.
• Content also outside of groups.
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Personalized experience• Personal & group
dashboards• Social bookmarking• Curated content• Subscriptions to
content & discussions
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Responsive design
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Extend and modify• Extend Commons with 20k+ modules • Open standards support:
- Document management - Application integration- User access & authentication
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Group layout
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Customizable
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Permission control
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Add role
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Commons
Conference (COD)
DistributionsOpenPublish
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Springboard development
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Step-by-step lessons
acquia.com/resources/webinars/intro-commons-part-1-how-manage-your-online-community
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Demo time!
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THE LEARNING JOURNEY CONTINUES
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Alpaca Lace tangled mess by Manda Vixen Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)http://www.flickr.com/photos/29694534@N03/4724530295/
A tangled mess?
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Fun or frustrating?
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A good challenge
Hooded Pullover I003 by janamunky Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyngmunky/2879117232/Wednesday, August 21, 13
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Next week... You kicked the tires, now test drive!
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Content administration
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Content revisions
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The demo framework
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