This presentation is geared toward Project Managers, Strategists, Biz Development, and Content Administrators who use Drupal as a platform for their web sites.

1. Low Effort, High Impact
Ways to Add Value to your Drupal Site
Lindsey Kopacz, @littlekope0903

2. Why is this important?

3. Budget.

4. Who am I?

5. Search Engine Optimization
Administrative Interface Updates
Making Searching Easier for the End User
Accessibility QA
If we have time, quick demo :)
Categories We’re Covering

6. 1. Search Engine Optimization

7. What does it do?
Helps search engines
crawl a site and
update results
XML Sitemap Module
How long does it take to
configure
Configure Navigation
Structure, Content Types,
Taxonomy
LOE < 1 hour
Path to configure XML Sitemap:
/admin/config/search/xmlsitemap/settings

8. What does it do?
Creates automated
metadata for entities:
Nodes, Taxonomy,
Files, Users, Views
Metatags Module
How long does it take to
configure
Configure tokens for Nodes,
Taxonomy, Files, and
Users.
LOE < 2 hours
Path to configure Metatag Module:
/admin/config/search/metatags

9. What does it do?
Adds Google Analytics
statistics tracking to
website
Google Analytics Module
How long does it take to
configure
Configure Web property ID,
Domains, Pages, Roles to
track, etc
LOE < 1 hour
Path to configure Google Analytics:
/admin/config/system/googleanalytics

10. 2. Administrative Interface
Updates

11. LOE < 1 hour
You can add shortcut links to the toolbar for
frequently visited links, particularly ones that might
be hard remember the path.
Path to create or edit your shortcut bar:
/admin/config/user-interface/shortcut
Shortcuts Module
(included w/ Core)

12. LOE approx 1-3 hours depending on complexity
Select checkboxes what content you want to update,
and update it all at the same time
IE bulk updating existing content of a new empty field
Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add
Updating content
with VBO module

13. LOE approx 1-3 hours depending on complexity.
Edit a field right from the backend interface.
IE updating a taxonomy really quickly without going
back into the node
Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add
Updating content with
Editable Fields Module

14. LOE approx 1-3 hours depending on complexity.
Using Search Filters for displaying a specific type of
content and seeing a table of some of it’s content.
Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add
Displaying and Locating
Content

15. 3. Making Searching Easier
for the End User

16. Taxonomy Filters
Dropdowns
Faceted Search
LOE 2-4 hours
depending on styling
Listing Page Views
Other Searching
Keyword Search
Sorting Filters - IE Newest
to Oldest
LOE 2-4 hours depending
on styling
Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add

17. 4. Accessibility QA

18. LOE approx 1-2 hours
Examples of what you shouldn’t be doing
Adding images without alt text
Using “Click Here” to describe links
Using H3’s before using H2’s
Path to create a view: /admin/structure/views/add
Admin Views for
Catching User Error

19. XML Sitemap
Metatag
Google Analytics
Views
Views Bulk
Operations (VBO)
Modules Used/Resources
Editable Fields
Better Exposed Filters
Facet API
Search API
Search API Database
Search

20. Questions?