This document outlines best practices and recipes for beginners using Drupal. It discusses planning a site by considering purpose, audience and actions before design, functions and content. It recommends paper prototyping to map out the admin section, roles, content types and views. Specific recipes are provided to build services, events, blog and download sections using content types, fields and views. The document encourages thinking in a Drupal mindset and has a question and answer section.

1. Welcome to the Jungle
Basic Drupal Recipes and
Best Practices for Beginners
BADCamp – October 17th, 2009 http://www. ickr.com/photos/magtravels/85630949/

2. Carl Wiedemann
c4rl on IRC, drupal.org

3. Why Recipes & Best Practices?

4. Reason 1
Not a lot of guidance out of the box...

5. Reason 2
2886...
So many modules. So little time.

6. Reason 3
Is there a right better way?
“This is what worked for me...”

7. Part I: Some Remarks on Planning

8. The Linear Pitfall
Design  Function  Content

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10. http://www. ickr.com/photos/red_devil/285974306/

11. Planning vs Building
Design  Function  Content
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Design  Function  Content

12. Strategy vs Planning vs Building
Purpose + Audience + Actions
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Design  Function  Content
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Design  Function  Content

13. Part II: Building a Site

14. My my, where to begin?
With a special new tool...

15. Paper Prototyping!
http://www. ickr.com/photos/lucastheexperience/3469305764/

24. First Steps
The Admin Section
DEMO

25. First Steps
Roles and User Settings
DEMO

26. First Steps
Viewing the site as multiple users
DEMO

27. First Steps
Content Types and Nodes

28. http://www. ickr.com/photos/andorus/3103310776/

29. First Steps
Content Types and Nodes
DEMO

30. Section by Section
Services Page
Home Page
DEMO

31. Section by Section
Events Calendar
Blog
Downloads

32. All of these are lists of nodes, grouped by type

33. CCK + Views

34. CCK + Views
Add new elds to content types:
Text, numeric, date, les,
images, video...

35. CCK + Views
Add new elds to content types: Create a list of nodes
Text, numeric, date, les, using lters, ordering,
images, video... elds, display

37. Blog
CCK + Views
Title Filter: type = blog
Body Display: teaser
Order: date (desc)

39. Events Calendar
CCK + Views
Title Filter: type = event
Date + Time Filter: dates in future
Location Display: all elds
Description Order: date (ascending)

41. Downloads
CCK + Views
Title Filter: type = download
File upload Display: Title, link
Order: Custom, title

42. Section by Section
Events Calendar
Blog
Downloads
DEMO

43. Section by Section
Contact Us

45. Section by Section
Contact Us
DEMO

46. Now what??

47. Thinking in Drupal

48. Thanks! Q+A
Basic Drupal Recipes and
Best Practices for Beginners
BADCamp – October 17th, 2009 http://www. ickr.com/photos/magtravels/85630949/
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