Join us for the latest overview and demonstration of Drupal Gardens. The walk through and demo will be showing the latest features in the Drupal Gardens Beta. One of the primary goals of Drupal Gardens is to empower users to quickly and easily assemble socially smart and powerful Drupal 7 Websites without having to do any programming. The creation of Enterprise microsites for new product launches or events has never been easier.

1. 15 Minutes from Design to Online
Preview of Drupal Gardens
15 Minutes from Design to Online
Bryan House
Sr. Director, Marketing
Acquia
@bryanhouse

3. Until Now, Drupal is DIY
One path to create & operate Drupal sites
– Download binary
– Set up LAMP stack
– Install Drupal
– Find contrib modules to meet requirements
– Install contrib modules
– Build Drupal site
– Theme Drupal site
– Tune LAMP stack for performance
– Update Drupal application and LAMP stack

4. Implications of DIY
For superheroes only?

5. Drupal community
includes many
superheroes
1400 Drupal developers
DrupalCon DC
Washington, 2009

6. Grow Drupal by 100x
Superhero skills
need not be
required

7. When should you use
Drupal Gardens?

8. Match deployment choice to your:
- site requirements
- business requirements

9. Big sites => Drupal

10. Big sites => Drupal
Microsites =>
Drupal Gardens

11. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Rapid deployment
Hosted, managed service

12. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Many microsites

13. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Consistent
design elements

14. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Perishable sites

15. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Start small and grow

16. When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?
Most importantly...
You need a service with:
nothing to install
no servers to update or manage

17. Who will use
Drupal Gardens?

18. Enterprises, Large and Small
Product launches
Marketing campaigns
Event promotion

19. Media & Entertainment Companies
Artist sites
Promotional campaigns

20. Government Agencies, Non-Profit
Political campaigns
Rapid response

21. Higher Education Institutions
Departments, projects,
faculty sites

22. What Is Drupal Gardens?
Drupal 7, as a Service

23. What Is Drupal Gardens?
Library of themes
& templates

24. What Is Drupal Gardens?
Design. Build.
Clone.

25. Social publishing, made simple
ThemeBuilder
Integrated WYSWYG editor
Personal media library
Different layouts on every page
Tagging, vocabularies and metadata
Multi-user authoring

26. Socially Smart
User profiles
Supercharged blogging
Socially connected
Community enabled
RSS
Single sign on

27. Powerful
Role-based permissions
Configurable content types
Custom CSS support
Export sites, no platform lock-in
Scalable, high performance
Up-to-date security

28. Let’s see a demo

29. On the Horizon
Manage site collections
Themes across sites
Sites configurations
Multisite search
Analytics

30. Partner Program
Opportunities
–Design agencies
–Development partners
–Affiliate programs
Interested? Sign up @
http://www.drupalgardens.com/partners

31. Pricing
Drupal Gardens is free through end of 2010
Pricing plans at:
– http://www.drupalgardens.com/pricing
Enterprise packages available - call us

32. Drupal Gardens - Socially Smart Websites
Power of Drupal 7
Power of Drupal 7
Fully managed, hosted
social publishing service,
with an open source
Fully managed, hosted social publishing service
attitude
Enterprise microsites, campaigns, events and more
Enterprise microsites,
campaigns, community
sites, events and more

33. Questions
For more information, visit:
– http://drupalgardens.com
– http://acquia.com
– http://twitter.com/drupalgardens
– http://twitter.com/acquia
Contact us: Today’s webinar recording
will be posted at:
– sales@acquia.com http://acquia.com/community/resources/
recorded_webinars
– 888.9.ACQUIA
Sign up for Drupal Gardens
– http://signup.drupalgardens.com