drupal for non-wimpy librarians (ilead u 2011)

Drupal for Non-Wimps

aka Librarians

Who is this guy?

Digital Media Lab

And WebsitesOf course

http://franklinparklibrary.org/

http://business.skokielibrary.info/

http://www.nsbdf.org/

Lots of Wordpress too

Why Drupal?

• Free – Open Source – Evolving • Add-ons* (Modules)• Menus• User permissions*• Themes• Tagging*• Comments*• RSS• Integration of blogs• Fluid front page

Hosts• Bluehost• GoDaddy• GreenGeeks• A2 Hosting • Acquia• LISHost• Your local consortium (the State Library?)

Easy local install

• Acquia DAMP- DrupalApacheMySQLPHP

• Bitnami• LAMP (less easy)• WAMP (less easy)

Language of Drupal

The hardest part for new architects

DRUPAL 6 VS.DRUPAL 7

Themes

Drupal Theme Page

But I want my own theme

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Keep in mind

• CSS vs. Tables• Accessibility

– Per Capita Grants– http://groups.drupal.org/node/18595?– http://www.ada.gov/websites2_prnt.pdf

Firefox/Firebug are your friends

My favorite theme helpers

• Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html• Firebug http://getfirebug.com/• Colorzilla http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/• Coral IE Tab

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10909• Web Developer Toolbar

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60• Notepad++ http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Modules

What are they?Add-onsAdd capabilitiesCore vs. Contributed

Not using Fields and Views?

CC http://www.flickr.com/photos/derusha/1465953800/

What is Fields?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike9alive/479092117/

What is Views?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/3410783929/

Togetherhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/jonperson/2849999933/

Example Fields and View

Same information

Same again

Other non-core Modules you

MUST check out

PanelsCTools

PathautoToken

Date and Calendar

WYSIWYG

Google Analytics

Webform

Rules

Nice Menus

Feeds

MollomCAPTCHA, ReCAPTCHA

Scheduler

Organic Groups

Where to learn more

• Using Drupal• Drupal for Dummies• Drupal for Education

and E-Learning• Front End Drupal• Sams Teach Yourself

Drupal In 24 Hours

• Learn by the Drop http://learnbythedrop.com/

• GotDrupal.com? http://gotdrupal.com/

• Drupal Dojo http://drupaldojo.com/• Drupal Handbooks

http://drupal.org/handbooks• Support http://drupal.org/forum• Lullabot http://www.lullabot.com/• Mustardseed Media

http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast

• Drupal Easy http://drupaleasy.com/• Lynda.com/

Time

The “I suck period”

I RULE !!1!!

Me

Please feel free to contact me @Please feel free to contact me @mjacobsen@skokielibrary.infomjacobsen@skokielibrary.infohttp://twitter.com/mickjacobsenhttp://twitter.com/mickjacobsen

Break Or mess around with Drupal

Practical Non-Wimps

• Configuration• Core Modules• Download a Module• Creating content• Themes• User Settings• Menus

• Structure– Content types– Taxonomy– Views– Display

Dirty Hands