10. USGWeb Collaboration Group
• Communication list for web development
discussion between the 31 institutions
in the University System of Georgia.
!
• http://usgweb.gatech.edu
13. What is a CMS?
• A content management system allows for the
creation, editing, and management of the website
from a web interface.
!
• Management can include:
• Theme / Appearance
• Content / Features
• Media / Photos
• Files / Uploads
14. Free Vs. Closed Source
• CMSs can come as open or closed source.
• Open: The community is building, extending, and
advancing the product.
• Closed: A company is building, extending, and
advancing the product.
!
• Open source products are more vulnerable to the
public discovery of hacks.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19. Security is not about open or closed source, but
rather about following stringent security
guidelines and procedures.
!
Open source allows the community to view and
validate the following of said security
procedures, as well as locating edge-case
security holes.
23. Who are the leaders?
Wordpress Drupal Everyone Else
45% 15% 12%
Assumes that 28% of the top 10k sites use custom, static services.
24. Why not Wordpress?
•Wordpress was initially designed as
a blogging tool.
!
• Many holdovers from that
development include:
• Pre-built theme packages
• One Size Fits All (OSFA) plugin
approach
• Limited user access permissions
• Heavy emphasis on Custom PHP
Code Writing
25. Alternative
• Drupal serves to take the best parts of Wordpress and
provide an enterprise-level environment for custom
content management.
27. What is Drupal?
• Drupal is a scalable, extendible, and
customizable CMS built to match a
wide-range of use cases and web
application offerings.
• First released in 2001
• Milestone releases every 1-2 years
35. Modules
• Drupal has over 25,000 plugins (called
modules) that extend Drupal’s feature
set.
• Modules are built as components.
• Modules work with other modules.
• Modules are maintained by the community.
!
• Out of the box, Drupal has a very
limited feature-set.
• Modules are key to building up a Drupal site to
work the way you want.
37. Entities & Fields
• Drupal’s content is composed of
entities and fields.
Profile
(entity)
Address
(field)
Full Name
(field)
Photo
(field)
Body Text
(field)
38. • Drupal’s content is composed of
entities and fields.
Profile
(entity)
Address
(field)
Full Name
(field)
Photo
(field)
Body Text
(field)
• Where entities can reference other
entities.
Friends
(field)
Entities & Fields
39. Content Types
• A content type is a collection of data
(fields) related to each other.
News
(CT)
Full Name
By Line Text
Photo Media
Body Text
Sidebar Text
Photo
Album
(CT)
Description
Category
Event
(CT)
Description
Start Time
End Time
Location
Photo Media
Photo Media
Slide
(CT)
Description
URL
Photo Media
40. Taxonomy
• A taxonomy allows you to pre-define
a list of items to be used in content
types.
• List can include fields
States
(Taxonomy)
State Name
Description
Rating
(Taxonomy)
Rating Score
Access
(Taxonomy)
Description
User Role
Photo Media
Age
(Taxonomy)
Description
Description Start Age
End Age
42. How Drupal Works
Standardized, reusable elements
!
(Fields - Name, number, postal address,
geographical location, image, YouTube video)
43. How Drupal Works
Entities
!
(Content types, users, taxonomy terms, etc.)
Standardized, reusable elements
!
(Fields - Name, number, postal address,
geographical location, image, YouTube video)
44. How Drupal Works
Dynamic display and organization of content
Entities
!
(Content types, users, taxonomy terms, etc.)
Standardized, reusable elements
!
(Fields - Name, number, postal address,
geographical location, image, YouTube video)
45. How Drupal Works
Theme framework, theme base, Sass/CSS, and
theme settings
Dynamic display and organization of content
Entities
!
(Content types, users, taxonomy terms, etc.)
Standardized, reusable elements
!
(Fields - Name, number, postal address,
geographical location, image, YouTube video)
46. How Drupal Works
Theme framework, theme base, Sass/CSS, and
theme settings
Dynamic display and organization of content
Entities
!
(Content types, users, taxonomy terms, etc.)
Standardized, reusable elements
!
(Fields - Name, number, postal address,
geographical location, image, YouTube video)
47. Entity Display
• The basic display of entities and
fields are barebones by design.
• This is where Views comes in.
48. Views
• “… Views is a tool to build queries. You can even
inspect the query as you build it.”
!
• “Views provides you with a powerful tool for creating
custom mashups of content and more. You can
pull together any information on your site and craft
dynamic lists, grids, tables, reports, RSS feeds, and
navigation. Views can also be configured to show
different results based on visitor interactions, such as
displaying posts submitted in the last month, posts
with comments and much more.”
56. Resulting Sites
• With the modular component structure, Drupal can
be utilized to build various web applications without
ever having to write a single line of code.
71. Local Development
• The easiest way to get started with
Drupal is to build your first website.
!
• Acquia Dev Desktop
See my website for a presentation on local
Drupal development.
72. Hosting Requirements
• https://www.drupal.org/node/920682
• https://www.drupal.org/requirements
• Any server with PHP, MySQL, and Apache works!