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Best Practice Checklist for Building a Drupal Website
This document provides a checklist for building a Drupal site, including planning content types and fields, implementing views and panels, testing, and deploying the site. It covers content strategy, search engine optimization, accessibility, responsive design, user accounts, content types, views, cleanup, and pre-launch tasks. Completing the checklist helps ensure a cleaner configuration, smoother launch, and consistency across the site build process.
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- 2. Drupal Consulting, Development,andTraining evolvingweb.ca Suzanne Kennedy, Co-founder @suzanne_kennedy
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- 4. SITE BUILDING PLANNING •Planning content types and fields • Creating sample content • Information architecture: menus and layouts • Layout strategy: Panels, Context, Display Suite,Views • Planning out Features
- 5. SITE BUILDING: IMPLEMENTATION • Buildingout ContentTypes,Views, and Panels • Configuring Module • Theming • Exporting Configuration to Features
- 6. SITE BUILDING: CLEAN-UP •Testing • Improving the admin UI • Testing with Sample Content • Documentation
- 7. SITE BUILDING: DEPLOYMENT •Switching over to Production Settings • Caching & aggregation • Security
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- 9. WHY HAVE ACHECKLIST? • Cleaner configuration, less cruft • Smoother launch • Consistency
- 10. WHAT’S ONTHE LIST? •Content Strategy • ContentTypes &Views • Search Engine Optimization • Accessibility • Admin Features • User Accounts • Content Cleanup • Responsive-ness • Pre-launch items
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- 16. MANYVS. FEW CONTENT TYPES •Limit the number of content types • Limit the number of non-required fields
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- 18. CONTENT STRATEGY CHECKLIST Make fieldsrequired Set a default on fields Choose free HTML vs. individual fields Choose the number of content types Decide on taxonomy vs. list fields
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- 23. Update Action forURL Aliases Configuration > Search and metadata > URL Aliases > Settings
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- 28. SEO CHECKLIST SEO Checklistmodule Google Analytics Path alias settings, global redirects, pathologic Custom error pages Page titles Use Mollom
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- 41. ADMIN UI CHECKLIST UseadministrativeViews Build custom adminViews Use DraggableViews Configure your WYSIWYG editor or use BUEditor Configure text formats, consider using Better Formats Embedding images
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- 49. ACCESSIBILITY CHECKLIST Make linktext contextual Add an alt text on images Check for colour contrast Test your tables Test using the Wave toolbar Use the Drupal Accessibility Checklist
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- 52. VIEWPORT METATAG <?php $meta_viewport =array( '#type' => 'html_tag', '#tag' => 'meta', '#attributes' => array( 'name' => 'viewport', 'content' => 'width=device-width' ) ); drupal_add_html_head($meta_viewport, 'viewport'); ?> https://drupal.org/project/Viewport
- 53. IE WORK-AROUND Versions 6-8don’t support media queries In your .info file: stylesheets-conditional[lt IE 9][all][] = ie-960.css
- 54. TEST! • mattkersley.com/responsive/ • screensiz.es •browserstack.com
- 55. RESPONSIVE CHECKLIST Use adaptiveimage for image re-sizing Viewport meta tag Internet Explorer work-around Testing on different screen sizes
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- 59. Test the permissionsfor each role drupal.org/project/masquerade
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- 61. USERS CHECKLIST Configure permissions& test with Masquerade Check setting for creating user accounts Configure User Emails Login redirect
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- 64. Manage Display: Iseverything is the correct order?
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- 67. CONTENTTYPES CHECKLIST Remove anyextra content types Check the order of fields Check the display order of fields Consistent content type settings
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- 69. Delete anyViews orViewsdisplays that you’re not using.
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- 71. Make sure thatViewssettings are consistent
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- 73. VIEWS CHECKLIST Remove extraViewsandViews displays Document yourViews thoroughly ConsistentView modes or field settings inViews ReviewViews permissions
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- 75. Remove all thetest content & users from the site
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- 79. CONTENT CHECKLIST Remove samplecontent Check that legacy content has required fields Test your image styles with many kinds of image Test your content with lots of HTML
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- 83. Modules up-to-date Configuration >Modules > Update
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- 87. PRE-LAUNCH CHECKLIST Disable modules Turnon caching and aggregation Update modules Change passwords Disable error logging Security review
- 88. CONTRIB MODULES • ViewsBulk Operations • Google Analytics • Pathauto • PageTitle • Mollom • AdministrativeViews • DraggableViews • AdministrativeViews • WYSIWYG API • BUEditor • Insert • Image Resize Filter • Security Review • 404 Navigation • Masquerade
- 89. TRAINING PROGRAM We offerpublic and private Drupal training sessions. evolvingweb.ca/training
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- 91. Drupal Consulting, Development,andTraining evolvingweb.ca Suzanne Kennedy, Co-founder @suzanne_kennedy