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Drupal for Non-Wimps

aka Librarians

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Who is this guy?

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Digital Media Lab

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And WebsitesOf course

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http://franklinparklibrary.org/

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http://business.skokielibrary.info/

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http://www.nsbdf.org/

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Lots of Wordpress too

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Why Drupal?

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

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

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Easy local install

• Acquia DAMP- DrupalApacheMySQLPHP

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

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Language of Drupal

The hardest part for new architects

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DRUPAL 6 VS.DRUPAL 7

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But I want my own theme

• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

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Keep in mind

• CSS vs. Tables• Accessibility

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

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Firefox/Firebug are your friends

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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

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Modules

What are they?Add-onsAdd capabilitiesCore vs. Contributed

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Not using Fields and Views?

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

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What is Fields?

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

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What is Views?

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

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

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Example Fields and View

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Same information

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Same again

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Other non-core Modules you

MUST check out

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PanelsCTools

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PathautoToken

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Date and Calendar

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WYSIWYG

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Google Analytics

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Webform

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Rules

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Nice Menus

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Feeds

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MollomCAPTCHA, ReCAPTCHA

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Scheduler

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Organic Groups

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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/

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Time

The “I suck period”

I RULE !!1!!

Me

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Please feel free to contact me @Please feel free to contact me @[email protected]@skokielibrary.infohttp://twitter.com/mickjacobsenhttp://twitter.com/mickjacobsen

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Break Or mess around with Drupal

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Practical Non-Wimps

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

• Structure– Content types– Taxonomy– Views– Display

Dirty Hands