Drupal for Libraries 01/22/09

Who is this guy anyway?
Adult Services Librarian, Skokie Public Library
Formerly the Adult and Web Services Librarian, Franklin Park Public Library
Designed Franklin Park Public Library’s website using Drupal
Designed Library Production Studio’s website using Drupal
Helped a few libraries get started with Drupal

What we will go over
Language
Themes
Modules
User permissions
Blocks
Menus

Content Management Systems (Framework)
Drupal
Wordpress
Joomla
Plone
Mambo
Etc.

Why Drupal?
Menus
User permissions
Empower everybody/Spread the responsibility
Themes
Comments
RSS
Integration of blogs
Fluid front page

So, is it easy?

Famous Drupal sites

A few local libraries using Drupal

And a few more

Drupalese
Blocks
Themes
Taxonomy
Core
Modules
Weight
Node
Path
Page/Story

Core
Blogs
Profiles
Page/Story
Menu
Blocks
Modules
Themes

Basic configurations
Site Name
Slogan
Mission
Date and Time
Clean URLs
Offline?
Remember /user to log in again

Themes

Settings for your theme
Global Settings (pay attention to tabs)
Site Information
Title
Slogan
Mission
Logo
Favicon

But I want my own theme
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
(not as hard as it looks … seriously)

Firefox/Firebug are your friends

Modules
What are they?
Which ones to use ?
Releases
Issues
Maintainers

Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views Modules

CCK
Create content types
Youth programs
Teen programs
Adult programs
Databases
Blogs
Recommended websites

Views
Lists, lists, and more lists
Blog types
All programs, youth programs, adult programs, repeating programs, etc.
Calendar
A particular user’s posts
Databases by subject
Ratings

Hard to picture?

A few cool modules
Pathauto
SOPAC
Web Form
Sign up
Date and Date API
Calendar
Image Field and Image API
Image Cache
Scheduler
Text Size
Printer Friendly
TinyMCE
FCKeditor
CAPTCHA
Panels
Content Template
Nice Menus
Administration Menu
Google Analytics
Link

User Permissions: divide and conquer

Blocks
Where
Sidebars
Header
Footer
Content
Use your CSS
Configuring

Menus
Primary, Secondary, and Navigation
Settings
Weight
While creating content
URL Path Module
Nice Menus Module

Basic options for content
Split Summary
Input Format
Revision information
Comment Settings
File Attachments
URL Path Settings
Authoring Information
Publishing Options

A few websites I have found helpful
Drupal Dojo http://drupaldojo.com/
Learn by the Drop http://learnbythedrop.com/
Drupal4lib Listserv http://listserv.uic.edu/archives/drupal4lib.html
GotDrupal.com? http://gotdrupal.com/
Drupalib- Drupal for Libraries http://drupalib.interoperating.info/
Getting Started http://drupal.org/getting-started/6
Drupal Handbooks http://drupal.org/handbooks
Support http://drupal.org/forum
Library Drupal Group http://groups.drupal.org/libraries
Lullabot http://www.lullabot.com/

A few books on Drupal

Please feel free to contact me @ [email_address] http://twitter.com/mickjacobsen

Drupal for Libraries 01/22/09

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