Making the Switch, Part 1: Top 5 Things to Consider When Evaluating Drupal

MAKING THE SWITCH:
PART 1, EVALUATING DRUPAL
Top 5 Things to Consider
Wednesday, August 21, 13

Kicking the tires
What stage are you at?

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.

mjskok.com/resource/
2013-future-open-source-7th-annual-survey-results

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix

Data as of 12 March 2012
Data as of 20 August 2013
Source
https://drupal.org/

trends.builtwith.com/cms
Drupal is 6.66%
of top million

trends.builtwith.com/cms
Drupal is 13.7%
of top 10k

Things we won’t
cover

Total cost of ownership
• The return on investment in free software
acquia.com/resources/collateral/
total-cost-ownership-open-source-software

Security
acquia.com/blog/keeping-drupal-secure

Great resources

Hosting
• What hosting is the right choice for you?
acquia.com/resources/whitepapers/
get-grip-hosting-costs-your-high-volume-website

• Migration toolkit and checklist
Migration
acquia.com/resources/collateral/drupal-migration-checklist

So, what is this
session all about?

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?

Go Bake! (?)
aftermath 3.jpg by Jo Naylor Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandora_6666/2143724446/

Making bread is easy! (?)
fresh baked bread by surlygirl Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jm_photos/425893026/in/photostream/

Learning takes time

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.

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.
• “The drop is always moving”

Red Onion by Michael Patterson Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelnpatterson/6512135073/in/photostream/
Peel back the layers

Case studies

How did they do that?
Case example
A form to allow
anonymous users
to upload content

How did they do that?
Case example
Drupal’s UI

The assembled web
Architecture to rapidly “assemble” experiences from
building-blocks instead of code sites from scratch.
Drupal core Drupal + recommended
modules
Solution
Distributions

AN OPEN SOURCE
COMMUNITY

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mjskok.com/resource/
2013-future-open-source-7th-annual-survey-results

OSS
+
Open
APIs
=
Innova0on
Age
Show
all
results.
Emphasize
strong

support
for
Open
APIs.
42

Estimated cost $ 15,081,411

275 years of effort

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.

Open Source?
• Drupal is GPL 2.0 License
• Free to read, use and modify.
• Do I have to give away my code? No.

Invest in your team
Photos from code sprints By muir.ceardach
http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ceardach Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)

Learn at events

Social and business network

Contribute
$200 / € 160
per year for
organizations.

https://www.gittip.com/for/drupal/

WHAT’S DIFFERENT
ABOUT DRUPAL

Example:
Powerful search

Florida hospitals
• Mobile site
• Convenient

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

Customized search results

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.

Display Suite
Arrange “fields”
in content into
columns

Changes?

Flexibility

Flexibility
Change column
layout quickly

Flexibility!
Change image
format quickly

Coming soon: Course on Search

EASE OF
CUSTOMIZATION

Example: Simple
content submission

direct.gov.uk

Course summary line

innovate.direct.gov.uk/node/add/apps?op=Submit+an+App
Requirements
• Innovate developer
site
• Allow developers to
submit apps.
• Moderate
submissions before
publishing

Drupal content type
ﬁeld conﬁguration
Field configuration

Example:
Localized content

Integrated content store (local + aggregation)
Social
FB/Twitter
Primary
site
Email
campaign
Video
portal
Mobile
application
Community
site
Measurement and reporting
Rich media assets User generated
content
Marketing
automation
CRM Feeds
Flexible, Open, Best of Breed

Suggests nearby stores

Local content 300+ stores

Workbench moderation

MANAGING
CONTENT LAYOUT
AND DESIGN

Data/content ﬁrst
not structure ﬁrst

What you may be thinking
example.com news
about
masthead
politicssports
contact
Your mental
site map

Googlehttp://domain.com
Web Page Title
Structure first?
Web Page Title
Front page Inner, full pageFront page

Web Page Title
Structure first?
Web Page Title
Front page Full page
?

Display of content
Web Page Title
Web Page Title
Full pageFront page

Structured content
Image
Title
Location
Tags
Body text
Author
Date
Web Page Title
Show 2 most recent.
Image as square thumbnail.
Body text up to 100 words

Structured content
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.

London.gov.uk

Example:
Community sites

Group info exchange
• Open and private
groups.
• Open or moderated
access.
• Post to multiple
groups.
• Content also outside
of groups.

Personalized experience
• Personal & group
dashboards
• Social bookmarking
• Curated content
• Subscriptions to
content &
discussions

Responsive design

Extend and modify
• Extend Commons with 20k+ modules
• Open standards support:
- Document management
- Application integration
- User access & authentication

Group layout

Customizable

Permission control

Add role

Commons
Conference (COD)
Distributions
OpenPublish

Springboard development

Step-by-step lessons
acquia.com/resources/webinars/
intro-commons-part-1-how-manage-your-online-community

Demo time!

THE LEARNING
JOURNEY CONTINUES

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?

Fun or frustrating?
Nothing Quite So Satisfying as a Ball 'o Yarn by iris Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisphotos/8227795776/

A good challenge
Hooded Pullover I003 by janamunky Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyngmunky/2879117232/

Next week...
You kicked the tires, now test drive!

Content administration

Content revisions

The demo framework

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