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DEC 2010

Presentation Title

Drupal as a Content Management Framework

Unimity Solutions.3, 5th Floor, "Kasi Arcade" 116, Thyagaraya Road, T.Nagar, Chennai 600017 India, Phone: (91- 44) 43923800

www.unimity.com

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Presentation Path

• What does Drupal mean to a programmer?• History of Drupal• Drupal‘s Architecture• Highlights of Drupal - LIVE DEMO• Key Drupal Modules• Drupal Modules For Programmers• Drupal 7• The Next Frontier – Web 3.0• Useful Links

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History of Drupal

• Dries Buytaert was the founder of Drupal.

• He started a small news site with a built-in web board, allowing a group of friends to share content. He called it drop.org.Drop was a typo for the dutch word drop that meant village

• In January 2001, Dries released the free software Drupal, that means Drop in dutch!Over 650,000 users

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What does Drupal mean to a programmer?

• Access to a frame work to build on• Faster reach to customer• A whole bundle of Contributed modules• Coding standards• Community and Support

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Drupal’s Architecture

• Content Publishing is it’s Key feature

• At the core is Data/ Assets – Multiple data formats and media are supported

• Modules provide various functionalities – Collaborate– Interact– Share– Organizing data to cater to

different contexts• Blocks and menus are output /

navigation elements – allows for personalization of representing information

• User Permissions – roles based access to information and functions

• Template – provides for various layout options – allows for presentation and styles

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Highlights of Drupal

• Modular and extensible• Quality coding • Standards-based • Low resource demands• Open source• Ease of use• Collaboration

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Key Drupal Modules

• CCK • Views• Taxonomy• Organic Group• Rating• Commenting• Blogs

• Video• Image • File field• Quiz • Simple News

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Drupal Module For Programmers

• Devel module• Coder Module

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Drupal 7

• USABILITY• Better media handling• Custom content types in core• WYSIWYG Editor• Better Performance• Better tools to structure/organize

content• Basic Views like module

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The next frontier – Web 3.0

• The advent of semantic web– Context based

information– User interface for content

enrichment

• Provide for personalized publishing and interaction

• In addition to all the functionalities and capabilities of Web 2.0

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Useful Links

• Drupal.org Handbook Pages: http://drupal.org/handbooks

• Lullabot: http://www.lullabot.com• Drupal dojo: http://drupaldojo.com/

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Thank You!