Fredrik Jonsson gave a presentation on building complex websites using the content management system Drupal. He emphasized that Drupal allows for less coding and more configuration through reusable modules. Building sites the Drupal way involves using configuration over custom code, releasing reusable solutions on Drupal.org, and following the Drupal Coding Standard. Attendees were encouraged to learn Drupal and its modules thoroughly to develop sites quickly, securely, and upgrade easily. Examples of sites built with Drupal included mapleleafweb.com and labs.sonyericsson.com.

1. Building complex web
site the Drupal way
Speaker: Fredrik Jonsson

2. Fredrik Jonsson
@frjo_xdeb
xdeb.org/blog/frjo
xdeb.net/services
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden

3. Stockholm
Delhi

5. Drupal

6. What is Drupal
Less coding, more configuration
(The Drupal way)
Adding a image gallery to a
blog, live example.
Questions

7. Drupal
Open Source CMS distributed under the GPL
First released in 2001
Founder Dries Buytaert, Belgium
Great community
Code and API will change, data is sacred
Clean and solid API
Many small building blocks for flexibility

8. The Drupal way
Less code, more configuration
Only small snippets of ”glue” code and
extensions to other modules
Make any custom modules in to general
implementation and release them on d.o.
Build the theme on a good base theme
Follow Drupal Coding Standard

9. Benifits
Quick development of complex web sites
Easy to upgrade to new Drupal versions
Easy to expand the web site
Reusable solutions
Secure solutions

10. Requirements
Must take the time to really learn Drupal
and a number of important modules.
Always do things the right why, no quick and
ugly shortcuts.
Use time now to save it tenfold in the
future.
Follow Drupal Coding Standard

11. Web sites

12. www.mapleleafweb.com (By me)
Text

13. www.mapleleafweb.com (By me)

14. labs.sonyericsson.com (By NodeOne)

15. Example

16. Example

17. Check out this
Drush, the Drupal shell
Apache Solr integration, pro search function
Aegir hosting system
Version control with Bazaar or Git

18. Questions
Fredrik Jonsson
@frjo_xdeb
xdeb.org/blog/frjo
xdeb.net/services
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden

20. The End