This is an introduction to Drupal, an overview outlining some of the key basic features of Drupal. It is designed as an introduction to the open-source software. It was compiled by Enovation Solutions, an e-Learning and IT Solutions company.

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What is Drupal?
Compiled by Mark Melia,
Enovation Solutions, 2013

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Agenda
 Introduction
 Drupal overview
 Migration common considerations

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What is Drupal?

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Free
Open source
A Content Management System (CMS)
A Content Management Framework (CMF)
Community driven
Modular
Flexible
Pretty (provided time is spent on theme)
Drupal is:

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Who is using Drupal?

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For each week beginning on the given date, the figures show the number of
sites that reported they are using a given version of Drupal.
 Lots of people are using Drupal!

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What does Drupal look like?

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Source: www.economist.com

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Source: www.whitehouse.gov

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Source: www.gouvernement.fr

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Source: www.data.gov.uk

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Source: www.nsw.gov.au

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Source: www.dcu.ie

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Source: www.gaa.ie

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Source: www.iob.ie

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 Drupal make-up
 Nodes
 Content creation
 Taxonomy
 Menu
 Views
 Permissions
Drupal Terminology

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See Notes for explanation
Drupal Make-up
www.drupal.org

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Nodes
 All data in common format
 Nodes have
 Content types
 Metadata
 Comments
 Published?
 Modules know what they are dealing with
 Show content here
 Show it like this

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Content Creation
 Content types
 Customisable by administrator
 Create new content types
• Map location
– Name
– Description
– GPS co-ordinates
– Summary
– Post code

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Taxonomy
What is a taxonomy?

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Taxonomy in Drupal
 Node organisation – categories, tags or
metadata
 Define taxonomy vocabularies that make
sense
 Location
 Department
 Taxonomy should be driven by business
needs
 Are the sub-sections needed?
 Content that should be shared?

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Menu in Drupal
 Main menu
 Links drive main navigation structure
 Secondary menus
 Specify which nodes appear in which menus
 Central consideration for site

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Views
 Nodes can be mixed and matched
 Views define what node elements we want
to see (e.g. only show future ‘event content
types’, archive past ‘event content types’.)
 Defined using
 Search criteria
 Menu structure

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Blocks
 Box visible in a specific
region of a node
 Specify on block which
nodes to display on
 Nodes have regions
(e.g. left side, right
side, content pane etc)
 Regions defined by the
skin/theme

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Drupal Permissions
 User roles
 Permissions assigned to roles
 Specific nodes have permissions to:
 Edit
 View

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Look and Feel
 Theme
 How pages look
 Branding, corporate look
 Different pages can be defined for different
content types.
 Responsive design
 Bootstrap

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How do I edit
 WYSIWYG
 Login using specific address
 Editing bar appears on the top of the
website
 Content editing tools and links appear once
logged in

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Text editor
 Familiar
 Easy to understand
 Easy to use

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Revision Control

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Promoting to Pages

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Common Considerations
when moving to Drupal

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Can I do an events calendar?

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https://drupal.org/project/calend
ar

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Surveys
 Available from webform Module
 Simple, intuitive
 Define questions
 Validation
 Conditional branching through the form
 Online analysis
 Download for Excel

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RSS and Social Media
 RSS out of the box - ?q=rss.xml
 Social Media
 https://drupal.org/project/socialmedia
 https://drupal.org/project/easy_social
 https://drupal.org/project/sharethis

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Mobile/SFF
SFF: Small Form Factors
What is the requirement for Mobile?

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Mobile/SFF Considerations
 Responsive Design?
 What mobile browsers?
 Media
 Flash
 MP4
 Images

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Video
 How do you want to host?
 Drupal?
 External and embed?
 Browsers?
 Who do want to upload? Drupal allows
permissions for uploading video.

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Accessibility
 Core conforms to WCAG2.0 and ATAG2.0
 https://groups.drupal.org/node/85199

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Editing Content
 Who will edit the pages?
 Will departments take ownership?
 Editorial approval process?
 Authentication?
 Drupal allows configurable permissions
 Easy!

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Drupal – more than
technology
 Community
 Lots of people doing interesting stuff
 Engage with community
 Release to the community
 The community will keep it up to date
 Respected member of community
 What’s on the roadmap – you decide.

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