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    1. Drupal: Content Management and Community for your Library
      • a panel presentation
      • Ilana Kingsley, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library [email_address]
      • Dave Mitchell, London Public Library [email_address]
      • Harish Nayak, Univ. of Rochester Libraries, River Campus [email_address]
      • Debra Riley-Huff, University of Mississippi [email_address]
      • Nick Ruest, McMaster University Mills Memorial Library ruestn@mcmaster.ca
    2. Project Introductions
      • Ilana Kingsley – Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks
        • http://uaflibrary.us/moviebrowser/
        • http://library.uaf.edu
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    5. Project Introductions
      • Debra Riley-Huff – Univ. of Mississippi
        • http://www.olemiss.edu/libraries
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    12. Project Introductions
      • Harish Nayak – Univ. of Rochester, River Campus Libraries (RCL)
    13. Current Alpha
    14. Project Introductions
      • Dave Mitchell - London Public Library
        • http://www.londonpubliclibrary.ca
    15. Project Introductions
      • Nick Ruest - McMaster University
        • http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca
        • http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca
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    18. Process
    19. UAF: Why Drupal?
      • Easy to use (will need to set up a mysql database and have php running)
      • Don’t really need to know programming
      • Lot’s of user support
    20. UAF Process
      • CMS Selection
      • Drupal Installation
      • Content Analysis to create Drupal Content Types
      • Content Type creation via CCK
      • Create Roles (used for access control)
      • Enter users and associate users with Roles
      • Move content from static Web site to Drupal
      • Install Drupal modules as needed
      • Training for Content Providers
    21. UAF: Content Types
    22. Content Types
    23. UAF: Roles
    24. RCL Website Redesign Process
    25. RCL Website Redesign Process
    26. RCL Website Redesign Process
    27. Theming
    28. Unmodified Garland
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    32. Zen Theme Features
      • Well documented php and css files.
        • Layout
        • Print
        • Subthemes
      • Lots of easy-to-access classes and ids for CSS developers.
      • Mindful CSS class names
        • Different page item colors for non-logged-in users
        • Larger header section on the front page
        • Unique background color on a given content type.
    33. Zen Theme
      • Sub-Themes
      • Override the Zen defaults with your own CSS
    34. User Customization in Drupal
      • Create a personalized page that contains content from throughout the site.
      • Users can add RSS/Atom feeds from external web sites to their MySite pages.
      • Fully integrates with most Drupal content
      • Drag, drop and sort content on user custom personal layout.
    35. Unmodified Zen Classic
    36. Unmodified Garland
    37. MySite with Zen Classic
    38. Collapsed News section
    39. Simple Searchbox
    40. Must Have Modules
    41. Must Have Modules
      • CCK
      • Views
      • Devel
      • Webforms
      • TinyMCE
      • Profile
      • jquery update
      • advanced cache
    42. Customization
    43. Live
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    46. Taxonomy Theme - 'Adult' Website
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    48. Taxonomy Theme - Kids Website
    49. Taxonomy Theme - Teens Website
    50. Taxonomy Driven Navigation
    51. Taxonomy Driven Navigation
    52. Taxonomy Driven Navigation
    53. OAI-PMH & CCK
      • OAI for Bibliographic Module
      • Modified Mysql queries
      • Passes OAI testing 100%
        • _GET & _POST
        • Tokens
        • List records from Set
    54. OAI-PMH & CCK
      • Harvested by:
        • OAIster
        • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
        • Knowledge Ontario
    55. Rename Titles
      • Automatic Node Titles Module
        • Problem if nodes already had titles or changed automatic node title script
        • Script essentially opens a node then saves it.
    56. Clear Cache
      • Mysql query to truncate selected cache tables.
      • Used in development
    57. Delete Orphans
      • Mysql query to delete records from all connected tables.
      • Tied in with Category & Container
      • Used in development
    58. Timeline
      • Modified version of Timeline Module
      • Regular expressions for dates
      • Scripts to control scale and population of the bands
      • Popup box modified to open node
      • Modified to work with current MIT SIMILE Timeline
      • Changed JSON output to work with dates
    59. Timeline
    60. Lessons Learned
    61. Lessons Learned
      • Figure out Content Types and User Roles ahead of time.
      • Realize the modules/themes you use now may not work with the next version of Drupal.
    62. Takeaways
      • Zen Theme saves time of web designers by trade
      • MySite / Panels can make page customization very possible
      • Drupal saves time that you ought to invest in…
    63. Social Features
      • Bookbag
      • Tagging & Tag Cloud
      • Curate it!
      • Commenting, and comment voting
      • Popular Items
      • Contact form
    64. Questions? Ilana Kingsley, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks Rasmuson Library [email_address] Dave Mitchell, London Public Library [email_address] Harish Nayak, Univ. of Rochester Libraries, River Campus hnayak@library.rochester.edu Debra Riley-Huff, University of Mississippi [email_address] Nick Ruest, McMaster University Mills Memorial Library ruestn@mcmaster.ca

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