Lynn Taylor from the U.S. Pharmacopeia presents on CMS development with Drupal at DC Web Women's November Code(Her) Workshop.

1. An Introduction to Website Development
with Drupal
An Open Source Content Management System
Lynn Taylor - 13 Nov 2012
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2. Women in Technology
S Introductions
S Kristin Wehmeuller – DCWW Coordinator
S Lynn Taylor – Drupal Software Developer
S The Audience – Who are you?
S Amazing Grace – A Pioneer in Technology

3. Amazing Grace
S Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
S The MOST influential woman in computer science to date
S Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale in 1934
S Professor at Vassar College until 1943
S WWII enlisted in NAVY and began working with computers
S Created the first ever compiler
S Popularized the term “debugging”
S At age 78, spoke at the Air Force Academy

4. The Nano-second Legacy
S Imagination
S Fearlessness
S Intelligence
S Passion
S Women In Technology

5. Amazing Grace and Drupal
S The evolution of software
S Mathematical calculators
S Compilers
S Machine Independent Languages
S English-like syntax
S Software that writes software

6. Content Management
Systems
A content management system (CMS) is a software
application that enables content owners and subject
matter experts to easily post content to their
websites with minimal technical expertise.
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7. CMS
S What it is
S By definition, a content management system is a software
application that enables content owners and subject matter
experts to easily post content to their websites with minimal
technical expertise
S What it isn’t
S A software application that creates a website for you

8. A CMS is a
Software Application
S Word Processors
S Word, Notepad
S Spreadsheet Applications
S Excel, Lotus
S Content Management Systems
S Facebook, Twitter, Linked In
S Custom

9. Advantages/Disadvantages
S Advantages of using a CMS
S Saves time in posting content
S Improves quality of content
S Examples
S Disadvantages
S Constraints on functionality, layout and theming

10. Flexibility vs Complexity
Ease of Use
Flexibility

11. Evolution of CMSs
S Custom CMSs
S Facebook written in PHP
S Online Newspaper
S Online Recreation Club
S Specialized CMS Platforms
S Learning Management Systems
S Blogs – Word Press
S General CMS Platforms
S Joomla, Drupal

12. The Power of Drupal
S Drupal is flexible, powerful, and complex
S Can quickly and simply deploy a functioning backend, GUI
CMS and a front-end themed website
OR
S Can completely customize backend and front-end functionality,
as well as completely customize backend and front-end layout
and theming

13. The Power of Drupal
S Historical Overview
S Open Source
S Free and Extendable
S Large stable base of Community Support
S Modular, scalable software architecture
S Standards in place to encourage and support quality of code,
documentation and support

14. Drupal Components
Theme and Layout
Structural and Informational Architecture
Systems and Site Administration
Site Building and Functionality
Subject Matter and Content
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15. Design and Theme
S Designers, Themers, Accessibility and Usability
Experts
S Customize the display’s interface, look and feel using
S GUI interface
S Contributed templates and themes
S CSS, HTML
S http://drupal.org/documentation/theme

16. Structure and Information
S Structural and Information Architects
S Work with content types, blocks, menus, views,
taxonomy, and navigation using
S GUI interface,
S Contributed templates, themes, modules
S CSS, HTML
S http://drupal.org/documentation/structure

17. Functionality and Site Building
S Site Builders, Developers
S Add functionality and features such as e-commerce, forums,
media, search, geographic data, dates, workflow, messaging,
forms, social networking using
S GUI Interface
S Contributed Modules
S API in PHP
S http://drupal.org/documentation/build
S http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal

18. Administration
S Systems and Site Administrators
S Manage users and content, perform backups and
upgrades, secure your site, tweak performance using
S GUI Interface
S Contributed modules
S Command Line Drush
S http://drupal.org/documentation/administer

19. Content Owners
S Subject Matter Experts and Content Owners
S Add content such as articles, blog postings, comments,
announcements, photographs using
S GUI Interface

20. Drupal – How To
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21. S Theme and Layout
Hands On S Structural and
Informational
Architecture
dcww.1.synsas.com
S Site Building and
Functionality
GUI Walk Thru
Custom Walk Thru S Systems and Site
Administration
Network : Is-guest
S Subject Matter and
Password: zengo2011 Content

22. Drupal Setup
S LAMP Stack
S WAMP
S MAMP
S LAMP
S 3rd Party Hosting
S http://drupal.org/download/
S http://dcww.1.synsas.com/

23. The “Drupal Way”
S Out of the box
S What theming, functionality, and customization can you get simply with selecting Drupal
configuration
S Contributed code
S What theming, functionality, and customization can you get with code contributed by
members of the Drupal community
S Standard installation procedures and software architecture
S Custom code
S Folder Structure
S Standard Naming and Architectural Structure conventions in code
S DON’T HACK CORE!

24. Layout and Navigation
S Sample of installed structural configuration options
S Drupal Regions and Blocks
S Administration > Site Building > Blocks
S Administration > Site Building > Menus
S Wire framing
S Panels and Contexts

25. Design and Theme
S Installed Drupal Themes
S Administer > Site Building > Themes
S Drupal Community Contributed Themes
S http://drupal.org/project/Themes
S Commercial Themes
S http://www.drupal-themes.adodis.com/
S http://www.templatemonster.com/drupal-themes.php
S Custom Theming
S http://drupal.org/documentation/theme/

26. Information Architecture
S Taxonomy
S The science of categorization, or classification, of things based on
a predetermined system.
S What’s your site about? How can you categorize sections of it in a
way that users might find information they are seeking?
S Content Types
S Administration > Content Management > Content Types
S Installed content types: Blogs, Book, Forum, Pages, Poll, Story
S Creating content types with the CMS (Announcement, Article)

27. Information Architecture
S Content Types and Forms
S Getting information into the database
S Drupal Views
S Administration > Build > Views
S GUI Interface to get information out of the database
S Generate SQL statements to pull information from the database
S To create lists and reports
S Pre-Installed Views
S Creating Views

28. Functionality and Site Building
S Customer asks for:
S The ability to have the public comment on content
S The ability to edit their content in a wysiwyg
S The ability to create a slide show
S The ability to search content on the site
S The ability to provide words to search on
S http://drupal.org/project/Modules
S http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg
S http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow

29. Administration
S Administration > User
S Users
S Roles
S Permissions

30. Content Owners
S Subject Matter Experts and Content Owners
S Add content such as articles, blog postings, comments,
announcements, photographs using
S GUI Interface

31. Humans are allergic to
change. They love to say,
“We’ve always done it
this way." I try to fight
that. That’s why I have
a clock on my wall that
runs counter-clockwise.
Rear Admiral Grace
Murray Hopper

32. References & Resources
S Living Social Guest WiFi:
S Network :Is-guest
S Password: zengo2011
S drupal.org
S dcww.#.synsas.com
S lht.homeoffice@gmail.com