DrupalCon 2012 focused on mobile, Drupal 8, and CSS preprocessors. Drupal powers over 1.5 million sites and 6.7% of the CMS market. Strengths include flexibility and theming, while weaknesses include a steep learning curve. Drupal is moving to a mobile-first approach in Drupal 8 with Symfony replacing parts of the core, HTML5 as default output, and a focus on responsive design. Views and view modes were discussed as ways to build layouts with less code by querying content and customizing displays.

1. DrupalCon 2012 Roundup
University of Maryland Drupal
Users Group

2. Recurring Topics
 Mobile
 Drupal 8
 CSS Preprocessors

3. Where is Drupal Now?
 1.5 million sites (6.7% of CMS market,
which is 30% of websites
 Strengths
 Weaknesses

4. Where is Drupal headed?
Time to kick ass with Drupal 8!

5. Drupal 8
 Mobile, mobile, MOBILE! (Get it yet?)
 Symfony will replace large portion of core
 HTML5 is default output
 Timeline

6. Mobile (First!)
 Mobile is outpacing non-mobile
 Mobile forces us to strip to essentials

7. Mobile First: Direction
 Program for mobile, increase if appropriate

8. Mobile First: Focus
SouthWest Desktop SouthWest Mobile

9. Mobile First: Gains
 A good user experience
 Use responsive design

10. Looking Good!
Techniques for lovely layouts with less mess
Views
Awesome database queries,
less code!
View Modes
Better displays, less code!

11. Looking Good:
Views
 “Visual database
query editor”
 Views can find almost
any information about
an entity or group of
entities and display it
any way you like it!

12. Looking Good:
Other things views can do
 Allow visitors to sort
or otherwise filter the
results
 Attach views to other
views

14. Looking Good:
Other things views can do
 Allow visitors to sort
or otherwise filter the
results
 Attach views to other
views
 Group and paginate
results
 Count the number of
results in a group

17. Looking Good:
View Modes

18. Looking Good:
View Modes

19. Looking Good:
View Modes
function agnr_extrafields_entity_info_alter(&$entity_info) {
$entity_info['node']['view modes'] += array(
'subtitle_teaser' => array(
'label' => t('Subtitle Teaser'),
'custom settings' => TRUE,
),
);
}

20. Looking Good:
View Modes
Extra
Fields

21. Views + View Modes =
More awesome, less code!
 Modules
bit.ly/view-modes