1. Drupal / Wordpress
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

2. This session
‣ My angle:
‣ why Drupal?
‣ Main concepts
‣ Case Studie
‣ First steps
‣ Final thoughts
‣ Your angle
‣ Q&A
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3. Assuming
‣ if(in_array('wordpress_ninja',$me)){
$me['programmer'] = false;
}
‣ So i can only speak for designers
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4. Why Drupal?
‣ The name
‣ Kika
‣ Community Tools
‣ Platform for community sites
‣ municipality - citizen - local businesses
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5. Main concepts vs WP
‣ node based
‣ u can put comments into images example
‣ that's why drupal is used a lot within media sites
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6. Main concepts vs WP
‣ views vs sql
‣ no more writing SQL.
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7. Main concepts vs WP
‣ design is separate from functionality
‣ UI can be totally different inside one site.
‣ You can create children sites
‣ You can test new design on live site, because
users can see different themes
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8. Main concepts vs WP
‣ Time
‣ 1st time doing something usually takes more
time and effort.
‣ Fixing the errors / 2nd revision goes faster /
other people can help.
‣
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9. Main concepts vs WP
‣ Backend?
‣ There is (no) backend in Drupal - everything
happens in the frontend
‣ That's one feature i missed in wp
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10. Main concepts vs WP
‣ Caching
‣ Turn it off when You are developing
‣ (just saved You 10 minutes)
‣ Different way how js and css are treated
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11. Main concepts vs WP
‣ Modular
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12. Case study
‣ www.uusmaailm.ee
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13. First steps
‣ Start with something simple / no time-
pressure.
‣ http://mustardseedmedia.com/
‣ If You spend too much time
programming, it might be possible that
this problem has been solved by
somebody else.
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14. Final thoughts
‣ Specialize - themer vs programmer
‣ if You spend too much time coding, You
are probably rewriting Drupal.
‣ Waterfall vs Agile (long term projects)
‣ Teamwork vs one-guy-alone
‣ Drupal > Corporate. Wordpress >
complex. Joomla > Drupal.
‣
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15. Your angle / Q & A
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16. Thank U
‣ Contact me:
Martin Sookael
+372 52 99 11 3
martin@martin.ee
‣ prototype: www.uusmaailm.ee
Wednesday, September 28, 2011