The document provides an overview of Drupal, highlighting its capabilities such as multilingual content management, flexible search, and custom development for various types of websites. It also outlines upcoming training sessions available for learning Drupal 8 and showcases different projects that can be built using the platform. Additionally, it emphasizes the open-source nature of Drupal and its extensive module ecosystem for added functionality.

1. WHAT IS DRUPAL?
AND WHY SHOULD I USE IT
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@evolvingweb

2. Our expertise, Your digital DNA.
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3. WE MAKE DRUPAL WEBSITES
FOR ALL TYPES OF CLIENTS

4. • Large, scalable infrastructure and deployments
• Multilingual content management
• Flexible search interfaces
• Content import and synchronization
• Custom Drupal development
• Integration with external IT systems
• Drupal training
WHAT WE DO

5. DRUPAL 8 TRAINING

6. • Introduction à Drupal 8 - Montreal - January 6
• 5-Day Drupal Training - Vancouver - January 9-13
• HTML & CSS Intro - Montreal - January 16
• Real World Agile for Drupal - Montreal - January 17
• Intro to Drupal 8 - Ottawa - January 19
• 5-Day Drupal Training - Ottawa - February 6-10
• Online Drupal Module Dev Training - January 16-27
UPCOMING TRAININGS
evolvingweb.ca/training

7. SUZANNE DERGACHEVA
• Drupal trainer
• Co-founded Evolving Web
in 2007
• Manage Drupal projects
• Experienced site builder,
themer, and developer
• @suzanne_kennedy

8. WHAT IS DRUPAL?

9. WEBSITES ARE ALL THE
SAME…

10. THEY ALL HAVE…
• A Header with your logo and your organization
name
• A footer with your contact info
• Navigation
• Pages of content
• Maybe articles and events
• Maybe a search form
• URLs
• A contact page

11. WEBSITES ARE REALLY
DIFFERENT!

12. YOU WANT YOUR OWN…
• Branding and colours
• List of products with special features
• Unique content
• Customized search with special filters
• Illustrations and graphics
• Landing pages that stand out
• Highlight the content that’s most important
• Target your key audiences

13. FEATURES OF DRUPAL 8
• Content
management
• Taxonomy for
organizing content
• Flexible navigation
system
• Comments
• Search
• Content listings
• Contact forms
• WYSIWYG Editor
• Nice content
authoring experience
• Multilingual content
& user interface
• User management
• Accessibility
• Responsive design

14. TOUR OF THE ADMIN UI

15. • Node - Piece of content
• Content type - A template for your content
• Taxonomy - Categorizing your content
• View - List of content (e.g. recent news, calendar
of events, list of products)
• Module - Functionality that you can add to a
Drupal website
• Theme - The layout, look and feel of your site
• Block - Something that’s displayed on the page
(e.g. user login block, main menu, list of content)
• Role - A type of user (e.g. author)
• Permission - A task that a user can do (e.g. add a
comment)

16. WHAT CAN YOU
BUILD WITH
DRUPAL?

17. CORPORATE WEBSITE
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OUR
PROJECT
EXPERIENC
E
• Flexible landing pages that
target key audiences
• Workflow for publishing/
scheduling content
• Content types for services,
conferences, press releases

18. CORPORATE WEBSITE
e v o l v i n g w e b . c a
OUR
PROJECT
EXPERIENC
E
• Contact forms for
collecting leads and
inquiries
• Corporate branding
• Content types for FAQ,
media listings, highlighted
projects

19. INTRANET
e v o l v i n g w e b . c a
OUR
PROJECT
EXPERIENC
E
• Private content
• Custom workflow for
internal processes
• Single sign on
• Listings of internal
content (e.g. regulations,
clients, internal news,
meeting notes)

20. ONLINE DIRECTORY
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• Content listing pages
• Search tools
• Embedded listings
• Related content
• Relationships between
content

21. WEB APPLICATION
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• Multi-step forms
• Custom validation
• Integration with third-
party database
• Custom admin interface
• Custom user registration

22. MARKETING PORTAL
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• Audience targeting
• Landing pages for SEO
• Mix of content and
marketing material
(vendor listings)
• Campaign landing
pages

23. MEET THE COMMUNITY!

24. Drupal is Open Source

25. All Code from drupal.org is
Free and Open Source

26. Drupal.org

27. DOWNLOAD DRUPAL CORE

28. DRUPAL CORE
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CommentsUsers
D. Schrute
Germany
J. Halpert
Spain
adventure
city break
sailing
shopping
dwight
8 Sept
Wow, can't
wait to get
started.
joe
8 Sept
Me too!
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ContactServicesFeatured About PortfolioNews
text search

29. DRUPAL CORE CODE

30. HOW DO I ADD….?
• Add an events calendar
• Social media links
• E-commerce features
• LDAP integration
• Embed load so YouTube videos
• Google Analytics

31. “There’s a module for
that”

32. CONTRIB MODULES
drupal.org/project/modules

33. CONTRIB MODULES
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34. HOW DO I ADD…?
• Integrate with my company’s database
• Add custom validation for forms
• Create a custom workflow
• Create multi-step registration forms
• Move content from another website into my
website
• Other fancy stuff…

35. “There’s [not] a module
for that”

36. Core
Contrib
Custom

37. THEMES!

38. CONTRIB THEMES
drupal.org/project/themes

39. BASE THEMES

40. ADMIN THEMES

41. DISTRIBUTIONS!

46. CUSTOM
DEVELOPMENT

47. SITE BUILDING
• Creating custom content types
• Views, views, and more views
• Selecting modules
• Using advanced modules like Context, Rules, and
Workbench

48. FRONT-END DEVELOPMENT
• Writing template files
• Adding CSS and Javascript
• Using core base themes like Classy and Stable
• Using contributed base themes like Bootstrap
and Omega

49. BACK-END DEVELOPMENT
• Learning how Drupal modules work (patterns)
• Writing PHP code to write custom functionality
• Writing migrations to pull in content
• Using Drupal developer tools!

50. DRUPAL 8 TRAINING

51. • Introduction à Drupal 8 - Montreal - January 6
• 5-Day Drupal Training - Vancouver - January 9-13
• HTML & CSS Intro - Montreal - January 16
• Real World Agile for Drupal - Montreal - January 17
• Intro to Drupal 8 - Ottawa - January 19
• 5-Day Drupal Training - Ottawa - February 6-10
• Online Drupal Module Dev Training - January 16-27
UPCOMING TRAININGS
evolvingweb.ca/training

52. QUESTIONS?
evolvingweb.ca
@evolvingweb