making the switch, part 1: top 5 things to consider when evaluating drupal

MAKING THE SWITCH: PART 1, EVALUATING DRUPAL

Top 5 Things to Consider

Wednesday, August 21, 13

Kicking the tiresWhat stage are you at?


You have to make a decision...

• Starting from scratch?• Switching from another CMS?• Vendor going out of business.

• Can’t afford license cost and upgrade.

• Switching from no CMS?• Hand built website, Dreamweaver.

• Consolidating multiple properties?• Tower of Babel of Technology.


mjskok.com/resource/2013-future-open-source-7th-annual-survey-results


http://www.mjskok.com/resource/2013-future-open-source-7th-annual-survey-results




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http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix

http://www.cmsmatrix.org/matrix/cms-matrix

Data as of 12 March 2012

Data as of 20 August 2013

Sourcehttps://drupal.org/Wednesday, August 21, 13

https://drupal.org/

https://drupal.org/

trends.builtwith.com/cms

Drupal is 6.66% of top million


http://trends.builtwith.com/cms


trends.builtwith.com/cms

Drupal is 13.7% of top 10k




Things we won’t cover


Total cost of ownership• The return on investment in free software

acquia.com/resources/collateral/total-cost-ownership-open-source-software


https://www.acquia.com/resources/collateral/total-cost-ownership-open-source-software




Security

acquia.com/blog/keeping-drupal-secureWednesday, August 21, 13

https://www.acquia.com/blog/keeping-drupal-secure

https://www.acquia.com/blog/keeping-drupal-secure

Great resources


Hosting• What hosting is the right choice for you?

acquia.com/resources/whitepapers/get-grip-hosting-costs-your-high-volume-website


https://www.acquia.com/resources/whitepapers/get-grip-hosting-costs-your-high-volume-website




• Migration toolkit and checklist

Migration

acquia.com/resources/collateral/drupal-migration-checklistWednesday, August 21, 13

https://www.acquia.com/resources/collateral/drupal-migration-checklist

https://www.acquia.com/resources/collateral/drupal-migration-checklist

So, what is this session all about?


What do you need to know?• You need enough

technical skills to...

• Build a proof of concept?

• Integrate your CRM with Drupal and distribute content across 5 international sites?


Go Bake! (?)

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Making bread is easy! (?)

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Learning takes time


Learning journey• Starts • When you first come around to kick the tires.

• Continues • As you develop your plans.

• As your team learns to use the tools.

• As technology changes under your feet.

• Ends? Never!• The web as an industry is a never ending

learning journey.


Learning journey• We help you get started• By learning the essentials

• We provide structured training

• We help you develop• Developing knowledge through iterative

development and testing

• We provide Professional services

• Ends? Never! • Support services.

• “The drop is always moving”Wednesday, August 21, 13

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Peel back the layers


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Case studies


How did they do that?

Case example

A form to allowanonymous users to upload content


How did they do that?

Case example

Drupal’s UI


The assembled web

Architecture to rapidly “assemble” experiences from building-blocks instead of code sites from scratch.

Drupal core Drupal + recommendedmodules

Solution Distributions


AN OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY


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OSS + Open APIs = Innova0on Age

Show all results. Emphasize strong support for Open APIs.

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Estimated cost $ 15,081,411Wednesday, August 21, 13

275 years of effortWednesday, August 21, 13

Open source != free• Free as in speech! Yes!• Read the source code

• Make modifications as you need

• Requires investment of time and effort• Learn to use it, learn to collaborate.

• Contribute and see your changes committed!

• Commercial software also requires customization, tweaking, maintaining, etc. and you pay for it and don’t have control.


Open Source?• Drupal is GPL 2.0 License• Free to read, use and modify.

• Do I have to give away my code? No.


Invest in your team

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Learn at events

http://tinyurl.com/localdrupal Wednesday, August 21, 13

http://tinyurl.com/localdrupal

http://tinyurl.com/localdrupal

Social and business network


Contribute

$200 / € 160 per year fororganizations.


https://www.gittip.com/for/drupal/Wednesday, August 21, 13

https://www.gittip.com/for/drupal/

https://www.gittip.com/for/drupal/

WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT DRUPAL


Example: Powerful search


Florida hospitals• Mobile site• Convenient


Doctor search• Faceted search• Simplifies complex

options• Users can expand

to see “more options”

• Localized search

floridahospital.com/find-a-doctor?lat=28.5731323&lng=-81.3706776


https://www.floridahospital.com/find-a-doctor?lat=28.5731323&lng=-81.3706776




Customized search results


Many options• Custom code output

in template files- Could be difficult to

alter and maintain.

• Display Suite- Comes with the DS

module.

• Apache Solr Panels- Difficult to implement

but useful if you use Panels site-wide.


Display Suite

Arrange “fields” in content into

columns


Changes?


Flexibility


Flexibility

Change column layout quickly


Flexibility!

Change image format quickly


Coming soon: Course on Search


EASE OF CUSTOMIZATION


Example: Simple content submission


direct.gov.ukWednesday, August 21, 13

Course summary line


innovate.direct.gov.uk/node/add/apps?op=Submit+an+App

Requirements• Innovate developer

site • Allow developers to

submit apps.• Moderate

submissions before publishing


Drupal content type field configuration

Field configuration


Example: Localized content


Integrated content store (local + aggregation)

SocialFB/Twitter

Primary site

Email campaign

Videoportal

Mobile application

Community site

Measurement and reporting

Rich media assets User generated content

Marketing automation

CRM Feeds

Flexible, Open, Best of Breed


Suggests nearby stores


Local content 300+ stores


Workbench moderation


MANAGING CONTENT LAYOUT AND DESIGN


Data/content firstnot structure first


What you may be thinking

example.com news

aboutmasthead

politicssports

contactYour mental

site map


Googlehttp://domain.com

Web Page Title

Structure first?Googlehttp://domain.com

Web Page Title

Front page Inner, full pageFront page



Web Page Title

Structure first?Googlehttp://domain.com

Web Page Title

Front page Full page

?


Display of contentGooglehttp://domain.com

Web Page Title


Web Page Title

Full pageFront page


Structured content

Image

Title

Location

Tags

Body text

Author

Date


Web Page Title

Show 2 most recent.Image as square thumbnail. Body text up to 100 words


Structured content


Web Page Title

Image

Title

Location

Tags

Body text

Author

Date

Show 9 per page with pagination.Image as thumbnail. Author link to profile. Short date.


London.gov.uk


Example: Community sites


Group info exchange• Open and private

groups. • Open or moderated

access. • Post to multiple

groups.

• Content also outside of groups.


Personalized experience• Personal & group

dashboards• Social bookmarking• Curated content• Subscriptions to

content & discussions


Responsive design


Extend and modify• Extend Commons with 20k+ modules • Open standards support:

- Document management - Application integration- User access & authentication


Group layout


Customizable


Permission control


Add role


Commons

Conference (COD)

DistributionsOpenPublish


Springboard development


Step-by-step lessons

acquia.com/resources/webinars/intro-commons-part-1-how-manage-your-online-community


https://www.acquia.com/resources/webinars/intro-commons-part-1-how-manage-your-online-community




Demo time!


THE LEARNING JOURNEY CONTINUES


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A tangled mess?


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Fun or frustrating?

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A good challenge

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Next week... You kicked the tires, now test drive!


Content administration


Content revisions


The demo framework
