Brief Intro to Drupal

GETTING STARTED WITH DRUPAL Johnnie Fox

DRUPAL UPSIDES?• Drupal is Popular• Drupal has Negative Un-Employment• Drupal is open source.• Widely available (free) training• Active Community• You don’t have to know everything to be productive

DOWNSIDES TO DRUPAL• Powerful = Complex• Its a stack of stuff to know• Programming skills may not always help you• Not every problem is a Drupal Problem

ROLES IN DRUPAL SHOPS• Designer/Graphics Builds wireframes and mockups. Graphics to be used in the site. Needs to be Drupal Aware.• Themer- Builds the theme in drupal. Has heavy knowledge of .CSS and HTML. May also know some PHP for theming functions.

• Front End Developer - Builds sites using mostly the admin interface• Developer - Builds Modules and custom functionality using PHP/Theme Layer/Drupal API• Project Manager / Customer account rep - manages the tasks of completing the work and the client interaction/expectations. Can be 2 different roles

DRUPAL DISTRIBUTIONS• DrupalDistributions are premade drupal install profiles that are configured for a specific use case/application. • Managing News - Rss Aggregator/news feeder www.managingnews.com • Open Atrium - bug/case tracker www.openatrium.com • OpenPublish - News publishing platform www.openpublishapp.com

• Drupal Commons - Social networking for business http://acquia.com/products-services/drupal- commons-social-business-software• CiviCRM - Drupal distro for NGO, Non-Proﬁt and advocacy groups• Open Church www.openchurchsite.com• OpenEnterprise - Business website distribution www.leveltendesign.com/enterprise

RESOURCES• Drupal.org• gotdrupal.com• google - just search for it

• aquia installer - network.acquia.com/downloads• Xampp - install your own• Drupal gardens FREE hosting Drupal 7 www.drupalgardens.com• Books - • Using Drupal - Angela Byron et all.• Drupal Camps - Nashville, Atlanta, Asheville• IRC - drupal.org/irc

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Brief Intro to Drupal

by Johnnie Fox on Mar 17, 2011

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