introduction to drupal
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My slide of Introduction to Drupal that was prepared for Webcamp KL group's epic CMS battle between Drupal vs Joomla vs Wordpress. Btw, the fonts used in this slide is Avenir. Slideshare converted it to some weird fonts, just download it and open.TRANSCRIPT
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What is “Drupal”?
• Pronounced “droo-puhl”• Founded by Dries Buytaert• Started as school discussion forum in
2000• Drupal was later released in 2001• CMS + CMF = Best of both worlds
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The Numbers
• 13,316 modules• 1,334 themes• 13,464 developers• 720,717 people from 228 countries• 99 languages supported• 557,155 weekly downloads• 2.64% of worldwide websites• 2nd top CMS in the world • Price? $0 - FREE
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Features
• Multisite installation (eg: Sony Music)• Build (almost) any kind of website• Implement (almost any kind of
design)• Scalable / Caching• Secure (dedicated security team)
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Features (cont.)
• SEO friendly / Semantic Web• Developer friendly (3rd party
integration)• API well documented• Hosted service (Drupal Gardens)• Drupal is everywhere!
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Interface
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Standard Drupal 7 installation
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When would you use Drupal?
• Website that requires flexibility• Interact with other sites or technology• Create complex online forms /
questionnaires• Web applications with 3rd party
integration (eg: PubSubHubbub, RDF, ApacheSolr Search, Apache Mahout, MongoDB, etc)
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Case Study• OpenShippingRates.com– Problem
• Number of online stores growing• Difficult to maintain shipping rates
– Solution• Drupal as Web Service provider (API)• Centralised database for rates
– Features:• API interface to get live shipping quotes• Web UI for clients (providers) to update rates
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OpenShippingRates.com (Concept)
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The Future
• Drupal 8 :-–Multi device publishing (mobile, tablet,
etc)– HTML5– CSS3– Responsive themes (UX)– Components will be based on Symfony2
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Some of the notable websites powered by Drupal
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Whitehouse
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The Economist
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CNN Go
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Ubuntu
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Twitter Developers
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MTV
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Sony Music artists
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World Economic Forum
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ING Insurance
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PayPal X Commerce
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Zynga
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IKEA
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eBay Classifieds
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The Commonwealth Games
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McDonald’s
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The Sun Daily (by Gix Solutions & Miles33)
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Terminal Bersepadu Selatan(by Stronium)
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The Malay Mail
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Tune Hotels
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APIIT / UCTI Library
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SEGi University College
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“Drupal takes longer to learn, but once you learn it, you won’t want to build on
any other platform.” – Unknown
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Thank you!
Q & A ?