Here are the slides from a presentation I gave at "Untangle the Web" July. This was an introductory talk about Drupal and when and why you might want to use it. A complimentary blog post is available on my website. http://www.darrenmothersele.com/blog/2013/07/30/untangle-drupal/

1. Drupal
CMS Framework
Darren Mothersele
@mothersele
www.darrenmothersele.com

2. Early history

6. “Drupal 4.7 ... changed the way
that Drupal worked;
not Drupal core, but
Drupal the meta-project.” Larry Garfield

8. Built from atomic parts...
CCK
Fields (imagefield, emfield, etc)
Views
Organic Groups
Panels, tagadelic, pathauto, buddylist, privatemsg ...

9. Everything an entity
Fields in core
CMS Framework Community

10. Flexible content model
Define content types
Define attributes (Attach fields)
Define relationships (References/Relation)
View modes

12. Views (Query builder)

13. Panels (Layout builder)

14. Panels (Layout builder)

15. Flexibility comes at a price

18. A custom Drupal CMS is not a
proprietary CMS
Open source (no vendor lock-in)
Community
Flexible
Extensible
Structured content
Custom workflow

23. “we need to relinquish control of our
content ... setting it free from the
boundaries of a traditional webpage to
flow as needed through varied displays
and contexts”
Sara Wachter-Boettcher A List Apart

24. “Get your content ready to go
anywhere because it's going to
go everywhere.”
Brad Frost For a Future-Friendly Web

25. Brad Frost For a Future-Friendly Web

27. COPE
Create Once Publish Everywhere
Microdata, RDF
RSS & Podcasts
APIs
Mobile
And, whatever the future may bring:

28. “Technology will change. Standards will
evolve. But the need for understanding
our content —
its purpose, meaning, structure,
relationships, and value
— will remain.”
Sara Wachter-Boettcher, A List Apart

30. Metadata
Descriptive (taxonomy, classification)
Administrative (status, licensing)
Structural (content model, attributes and relationships)

31. Custom Entities / Content types / Fields
Entity reference
Taxonomy
Workflow
ERS
Workbench
Rules
View modes / panels

32. What's new in Drupal 8? (2014)
Content Authoring Improvements
Multilingual Improvements
Web Services
Views in Core
Configuration Management
Mobile
TWIG

33. Darren Mothersele
@mothersele
www.darrenmothersele.com