The “Making the Switch to Drupal series” will provide an overview of what you need to know when considering and adopting Drupal. In Part 1, we will guide busy managers through what they need to consider when evaluating Drupal.
We know that choosing any web development technology represents a significant investment of resources. Decision makers can spend weeks and months comparing options and deliberating about the best direction. We will use a combination of case studies and demonstrations to explain how Drupal works, so you can see first hand how it powers some of the most visited websites online.
In Part 1 of this webinar series, you will learn:
• Benefits of the open source community
• Comparison of Drupal to other systems
• Ease of Customization of branding and functionality
• Managing content layout and design in Drupal
• About common features and functionality of Drupal
3. 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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11. 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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14. 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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15. • Migration toolkit and checklist
Migration
acquia.com/resources/collateral/drupal-migration-checklist
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16. So, what is this
session all about?
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18. 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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19. Go Bake! (?)
aftermath 3.jpg by Jo Naylor Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pandora_6666/2143724446/
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20. 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/
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22. 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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23. 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”
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24. 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
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26. How did they do that?
Case example
A form to allow
anonymous users
to upload content
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27. How did they do that?
Case example
Drupal’s UI
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28. The assembled web
Architecture to rapidly “assemble” experiences from
building-blocks instead of code sites from scratch.
Drupal core Drupal + recommended
modules
Solution
Distributions
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35. 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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36. 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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37. 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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47. 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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63. 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
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75. 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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78. Group info exchange
• Open and private
groups.
• Open or moderated
access.
• Post to multiple
groups.
• Content also outside
of groups.
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79. Personalized experience
• Personal & group
dashboards
• Social bookmarking
• Curated content
• Subscriptions to
content &
discussions
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91. 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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92. 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/
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93. A good challenge
Hooded Pullover I003 by janamunky Attribution 2.0 (CC BY 2.0)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyngmunky/2879117232/
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