Speaking Drupal to People Who Speak Klingon

Drupal Capital Camp and Gov Days 2014

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Agenda

› Your Drupal Team› DrupalSpeak› The Drupal Community

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Your Drupal Team

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Business

Back-end

UX

Front-end

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Business Professionals

› Project manager› Business analyst› Trainer› Social media expert

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UX Professionals

› Information architect› Content strategist› SEO expert› Content creator› Usability expert› Visual designer› Interaction designer

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Front-end Developers

› Themer› Site builder› HTML expert› CSS expert› JavaScript/jQuery

developer› Engineer

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Back-end Developers

› Engineer› Integrator› PHP developer› Database administrator› Security expert› Hosting manager› Version control

manager› Data migration expert

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Business

Back-end

UX

Front-end

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Successful Project Managers

› Trust› Confidence› Team building

COMMUNICATIONS

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DrupalSpeak

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Your team says…

“We don’t hack the core!”

You should hear…

The change that we need to make is in the core Drupal files so we need do it another way.

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Your team says…

“There’s a module for that.”

You should hear…

Additional code is available to extend the core functionality.

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Your team says…

“I can hook that.”

You should hear…

They can tap into the power of existing Drupal modules without building a lot of new code.

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Your team says…

“We’re using the (zen, omega, adaptive, etc.) theme.”

You should hear…

The look and feel of our site will be defined by a presentation layer.

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Your team says…

“We designed for ten content types.”

You should hear…

Each piece of content can be defined by a unique model.

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Content ModelQIO Profile

Label Description Machine Name Field Type Widget Required Notes

1 Company Name Name of company title Node module element x

2 State/Contract State operating field_contract Term reference select list x One office per state contract

3 Street Address Office address field_address Postal address dynamic address form x

4 Phone Office phone field_phone Text masked input x

5 Note Note about office in this state field_note Long text text area

6 Subsection Services provided field_subsectioncode Long text text area Repeating field unlimited

7 Website URL Company website field_website_url link link

8 Logo Company logo field_company_logo Image image

9 Beneficiaries Number of beneficiaries field_beneficiaries Integer text field 6 digits

10 Physicians Number of physicians field_physicians Integer text field 6 digits

11 Hospitals Number of hospitals field_hospitals Integer text field 6 digits

12 Editorial Section Website section Term reference select list

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Your team says…

“We can make a block to display that information in the sidebar.”

You should hear…

Chunks of reusable content can fit in different regions of the screen for different users.

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Your team says…

“We’ll just build some views.”

You should hear…

We will use a graphical interface to query the content in the database and build a dynamic, highly customized display.

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Your team says…

“We’ll only display that to paid members.”

You should hear…

There are different types of users on the site and they are each granted specific permissions.

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Source: https://www.drupal.org/getting-started/before/overview

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The Drupal Community

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Web resources

› https://drupal.org• /getting-started/documentation• /forum• /support• issue queues

› https://groups.drupal.org› https://www.acquia.com/what-is-drupal› http://stackexchange.com› Drupal groups on LinkedIn

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Online tutorials

› http://www.lynda.com› http://drupalize.me› http://getlevelten.com/tutorial/course/getting-

started-drupal-7› https://www.drupal.org/documentation/customizati

on/tutorials

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Books

› Using Drupal by Angela Byron, Addison Berry and Bruno De Bondt

› Drupal for Designers by Dani Nordin› Beginning Drupal by Jacob Redding› Drupal: The Guide to Planning and Building

Websites by Cindy McCourt

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In person

› DC Area Meetup• Stetson’s every 2nd Monday• Drupal NoVA Meetup every 3rd Tuesday• Arlington Drupal Lunch every 1st Tuesday• Rockville Meetup

› Drupal Camps› DrupalCon

• Amsterdam 9/29-10/3/2014• Bogota, Columbia 2/10-2/12/2015• Los Angeles 5/11-5/15/2015

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It’s all about people…

Your team Your users Your community

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Dori KelnerSleight-of-Hand Studios703-758-7178dmkelner@sohstudios.com

Drupal groups: dmkelner

Twitter: @dorikelner

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorikelner

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