Is Drupal Right for My Website? DrupalCamp Dallas 2009 Lee Raney “ obiwan” on Drupal.org [email_address] Twitter.com/leeraney

Take-Aways List of things to look for in a CMS Understand one business owner’s reasons for selecting Drupal Start your own criteria list for what you need for your site Overview of Drupal vs. Joomla vs. Wordpress vs. proprietary Understand Drupal’s strengths and reasons to select Drupal resources to get you started Case Studies - See how Drupal used on several large sites The Drupal Community – getting involved! Top Web 2.0 Drupal Modules Is Drupal Right for My Website?

List of things to look for in a CMS

Understand one business owner’s reasons for selecting Drupal

Start your own criteria list for what you need for your site

Overview of Drupal vs. Joomla vs. Wordpress vs. proprietary

Understand Drupal’s strengths and reasons to select

Drupal resources to get you started

Case Studies - See how Drupal used on several large sites

The Drupal Community – getting involved!

Top Web 2.0 Drupal Modules

What to Look for in a CMS Depends on your needs CMS or Development Framework? Start your Criteria List…suggestions Easy for users to contribute (user-generated content) Less expensive to add new features Latest web trends- Web 2.0 Large community behind it Open source Not a hosted service Is Drupal Right for My Website?

Depends on your needs

CMS or Development Framework?

Start your Criteria List…suggestions

Easy for users to contribute (user-generated content)

Less expensive to add new features

Latest web trends- Web 2.0

Large community behind it

Open source

Not a hosted service

My Criteria – Christian.com Open source and on own site Social networking and publishing user content Leverage as much existing as possible More cost effective to build and maintain Extensible Is Drupal Right for My Website?

Open source and on own site

Social networking and publishing user content

Leverage as much existing as possible

More cost effective to build and maintain

Extensible

What about other CMS’s? Wordpress Joomla Other open source Other proprietary Is Drupal Right for My Website?

Wordpress

Joomla

Other open source

Other proprietary

Why Drupal? Site Building Blocks – Rapid Development Leverage 1,800 ad-on modules Designed for social publishing Open source – lower costs for development and lower cost of ownership Secure and stable Community Supported by top companies Is Drupal Right for My Website?

Site Building Blocks – Rapid Development

Leverage 1,800 ad-on modules

Designed for social publishing

Open source – lower costs for development and lower cost of ownership

Secure and stable

Community

Supported by top companies

Why Drupal? - Community Is Drupal Right for My Website? 2 Million Downloads 240,000 Community Members Over 700 Contributors to Drupal 6 core release Drupal Association DrupalCon Local Drupal Groups

2 Million Downloads

240,000 Community Members

Over 700 Contributors to Drupal 6 core release

Drupal Association

DrupalCon

Local Drupal Groups

Drupal Case Studies Is Drupal Right for My Website? View Slideshow at: KoineMedia.com/whydrupal

Drupal Resources Local Group – meetings and DallasDrupal.org Lullabot – podcast and Using Drupal Groups.Drupal.org GotDrupal Videos PlanetDrupal.TV Acquia.com Is Drupal Right for My Website?

Local Group – meetings and DallasDrupal.org

Lullabot – podcast and Using Drupal

Groups.Drupal.org

GotDrupal Videos

PlanetDrupal.TV

Acquia.com

Web 2.0 and Social Media Modules Add This Facebook Connect (fbconnect) Drupal for Facebook (fb) Tweet Meme Twitter – Dustin Feed API Add This Is Drupal Right for My Website?

Add This

Facebook Connect (fbconnect)

Drupal for Facebook (fb)

Tweet Meme

Twitter – Dustin

Feed API

Add This

Why are You Here? Discussion – what do you want to get out of this DrupalCamp? Is Drupal Right for My Website?

Discussion – what do you want to get out of this DrupalCamp?