So you need a website for your business, online magazine, or knitting collective. You want to get it online quickly, but you have big plans for adding new features in the future. Where do you start? One solution that has been gaining popularity among small businesses, non-profits, web designers, and large organizations is Drupal.

1. Building Websites
with Drupal
Suzanne Kennedy
@suzanne_kennedy
evolvingweb.ca
Go to drupalgardens.com + Create a Free Site

2. What we’ll do today
1.What is Drupal?
2.Extending Drupal
3.Thinking like Drupal

3. drupalgardens.com

4. Get set up

5. Get set up

6. • Drupal Gardens
• Managed hosting
• Support
• Training

7. • Drupal experts
• Contribute to Drupal
• Multilingual websites
• Drupal Training

8. About you
?

9. What is Drupal?
Software and community

10. What can you do with Drupal?

11. Build an Engagement Platform

12. Publish Lots of Content

13. Search Engine Optimization

14. Manage All Kinds of Content

15. Implement a Beautiful Design

16. Create a Simple Website

17. Drupal is Software
drupal.org/project/drupal

18. Drupal ‘Out of the Box’

19. Extend Drupal

20. Drupal Distributions
Social community site: Academic sites:
Conference sites: News organizations:

21. Why Use Drupal?

22. Websites are Similar
Logo, Slogan, Search, RSS Feeds, Content, Users,
Language Switcher, Mailing List

23. Websites are Similar
Logo, Slogan, Search, RSS Feeds, Content, Users,
Language Switcher, Mailing List

24. Websites are Similar
Logo, Slogan, Search, RSS Feeds, Content, Users,
Language Switcher, Mailing List

25. Separate Site Editor + Creator

26. Drupal is a community
drupal.org

27. Montreal Drupal Users Group
groups.drupal.org/montreal-quebec

28. Drupal is Open Source
Photos from code sprints
(cc) by muir.ceardach
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ceardach

29. Let’s try it
• Change your site title, slogan
• Create content
• Create a custom “block” on your site
• Place the block on the homepage

30. What You’ll Make

31. Using Contributed
Modules

32. Core vs. Contributed Modules
Go to the ‘Modules’ Page

33. Contributed Modules
Software to extend the functionality of Drupal.
drupal.org/project/modules
Fivestar: A content rating system
Webform: Submission form
Flag: All purpose content marker

34. Contributed Modules on
Drupal.org
http://drupal.org/project/webform

35. Project information

36. Let Users Contact You

37. Let’s try it
You want to:
• Let users contact you
• Collect specific information
Exercise:
• Enable a module: Webform
• Create a form!

38. What You’re Building

39. Thinking Like Drupal

40. The Drupal Way
Drupal
Func%onality, Content, Display, Layout, Appearance,
Other systems
Func%onality, Content, Appearance,

41. The Drupal Way
Func%onality, Content, Display, Layout, Appearance,
1. Functionality
What Functionality do you want?
Select and configure modules.

42. The Drupal Way
Func%onality, Content, Display, Layout, Appearance,
2. Content
What is the structure of content?
Create content types and configure them.
At this time you can work on permissions.

43. The Drupal Way
Func%onality, Content, Display, Layout, Appearance,
3. Display
How do you want the content displayed?
A List? A table? Thumbnail? In a block? On a
page?

44. The Drupal Way
Func%onality, Content, Display, Layout, Appearance,
4. Layout
Where should it be accessed from?
Arrange layout, configure menus
and navigation.

45. The Drupal Way
Func%onality, Content, Display, Layout, Appearance,
5. Appearance
What will your site look like?
Create or customize your theme.

46. The Drupal Way
Drupal
Func%onality, Content, Display, Layout, Appearance,
Other systems
Func%onality, Content, Appearance,

47. New Project:

48. End product

49. Content Structure is Important
You could allow
users to add
events as
unstructured
content

50. Break up content into fields

51. Use Fields to Organize Content

52. Content Relationships
Location
Pointe-à-Callière
350 Place Royale Montréal,
QC H2Y 2C9

53. Categorize Content

54. Creating Lists of Content

55. Site building steps
1. Create content types
2. Test with real content
3. Create custom listing
4. Position the content
5. Develop appearance

56. 1. Create the content type

57. 2. Enter in the content

58. 3. Generate list of content
Use Views to build a query and specify display

59. 4. Place list on the site

60. Let’s try it
• Create a content type: Quotes
• Create custom list of content
• Position content

61. What You’re Building

62. What’s Next?

63. Next:
Join the Community
• Get an account on Drupal.org
• Go to Groups.Drupal.org
• Attend a meetup
Next Steps with Drupal
• training.acquia.com/hellodrupal
• drupal.org/documentation/install

64. Drupal Training in Montreal
evolvingweb.ca/training
• Friday, Jan 27th: Drupal for Developers
• Friday, Feb 17th: Drupal in a Day
• Discount Code: DRUPAL15
studioxx.org
• Intro to Drupal on Wednesdays Feb-March

65. Questions?