Slides from DrupalCamp STL 2014 "Get Your Drupal Sea Legs" roundtable

1. Get your Drupal Sea Legs

2. Today's Tour
✔ Drupal in a nutshell
✔ Common dangers for new navigators
✔ Calling the Drupal Coast Guard
✔ Q&A

3. Drupal...in a nutshell
✔ Content Management System/Framework
✔ Maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+
users and developers
✔ Used to power high-profile sites such as
whitehouse.gov, Examiner.com, The Economist
(economist.com)
✔ Not perfect, but pretty awesome

4. Common dangers
✔ Plan your structure
✔ Don't hack core
✔ Modules are great...until you've installed too many
✔ Develop & test locally
✔ Backup your site...now...right now
✔ Version Control System (GIT, SVN, etc.)
✔ Features
✔ Security FTW!

5. Calling the Drupal Coast Guard
✔
http://api.drupal.org
✔
Blog posts/Tutorials (Google searching)
✔
Books (Pro Drupal Development, The Definitive Guide to Drupal)
✔
Issue Queue
✔
Irc (https://drupal.org/irc)
✔
Social Media (twitter, google plus)
✔
Drupal Meetups
✔
Drupal Mentors
✔
Paid Training (buildamodule.com, drupalize.me, drupaleasy.com
✔
Drupal Con/Camp training sessions

6. Calling the Drupal Coast Guard
✔
http://api.drupal.org
✔
Blog posts/Tutorials (Google searching)
✔
Books (Pro Drupal Development, The Definitive Guide to Drupal)
✔
Issue Queue
✔
Irc (https://drupal.org/irc)
✔
Social Media (twitter, google plus)
✔
Drupal Meetups
✔
Drupal Mentors
✔
Paid Training (buildamodule.com, drupalize.me, drupaleasy.com
✔
Drupal Con/Camp training sessions