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Jan 14, 2015
Put Drupal in the reach of smaller budget clients who prefer a fully hosted Drupal solution.
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Introduction
Jay Epstein, LLC.Coral Springs, Florida•2 Years With Drupal•6 Months With Gardens
•Drupal Gardens•Drupal 7•Theming•Presenting•Giving Back
Main Focus:
Organizer:Meetup.com/broward-drupal
Member:Browarddrupal.org
Drupal Association:User/ 535938
Drupal Gardens Partner:partners/list/jay-epstein-llc
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Drupal Gardens 101
Developer:
Customer:
Definition:•Drupal Gardens is a Drupal-as-a-Service platform.
•Ease of point & click up to advanced techniques.
•Socially Smart with social media aggregation.
•Template driven design with extreme flexibility.
•Zero maintenance on core, modules and themes.
•No lock in. Export sites to full Drupal installs.
•Reuse work with Site Clone.
•Multi-site manager - single sign on.
•Attractive pricing to fit any budget.
•Site setup takes minutes.•Full D7 environment with no learning curve.•Full Views 3 integration.•3rd party access for commerce, calendars.•Native support for above, in the works.•Localization coming soon.
•Drupal option that costs less.•All the power of Drupal. •No maintenance or lock in.•New functionality month to month.•All work is portable. 100% ROI.
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For Drupal Gardens to flourish,developers need to see value.
•Centralized management interface = Powerful Simplicity
Here’s just one example:
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Drupal Gardens, Administration
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Drupal Gardens, Administration
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For Drupal Gardens to flourish,customers need to see value.
•Attractive pricing, no maintenance,no lock-in and unlimited scalability =
Return On Investment
Here’s just one example:
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For Drupal Gardens to flourish,developers need to educate customers.
Developer: Customer benefits:
•Nothing changes in your normaldiscovery, concept, and designphases.
•Identify if Drupal Gardens fulfills allcustomer requirements.
•Choose to include an alternative totraditional Drupal pricing.
•Document your cost model to determine if the alternative issignificant.
•Alternative pricing and maintenance optionsattract ALL budget clients.
•Elevate yourself past the term “Vendor” bycaring about customers ROI. Be a “Business Partner” with justifiable choices.
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For Drupal Gardens to flourish,developers need to educate customers.
As developers, we need to know as much as possibleabout Gardens to offer it as an alternative.
In other words… Don’t assume anything. Know youroptions and limitations.
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Drupal 7 developers remain in theircomfort zone with no learning curve.
The Admin bar:Nothing watered down.
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Drupal 7 developers remain in theircomfort zone with no learning curve.
The Configuration Page:Nothing watered down.
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Drupal 7 developers remain in theircomfort zone with no learning curve.
The Modules Page:Nothing watered down.
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Drupal 7 developers remain in theircomfort zone with no learning curve.
Installed modules aregoverned by Acquia. You cannot install your own.
For additional functionalitythere’s many documented
workarounds, such as:
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Drupal Gardens enables simpleworkarounds for lack of module install.
E-Commerce:Add HTML buttons.
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Drupal Gardens enables simpleworkarounds for lack of module install.
E-Commerce:Add HTML buttons.
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Drupal Gardens enables simpleworkarounds for lack of module install.
Widgets & Things: Add a new input format, create a block, add javascript, jquery, etc.
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Drupal Gardens offers feedaggregation and prebuilt displays.
Aggregation:•RSS•Atom•OPL•Twitter
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Drupal Gardens offers Simple Views,the little brother of the views module.
Data mashups forblock placement.
Recent posts formany content types.
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Drupal Gardens now offersViews 3 for the real Drupal power.
Views 3
Nothing wateredDown.
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Drupal Gardens makes eye candysimple, fast and attractive.
Rotating Banner:•Add a block.•Upload Images.•Configure a few settings.•Assign block to a region.•Done.
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Drupal Gardens makes eye candysimple, fast and attractive.
Image Gallery:•Upload Images.•Configure a few settings.•Done.
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Acquia listens to Drupal Gardensdevelopers by responding to forums.
Extensive, categorized forums offer everyone not only, discussions, help and how to’s… but
a place to voice desires for new modules. Voting isconducted based on community feedback and
module maturity.
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Drupal Gardens is a full scaledevelopment AND theming framework
If the last 20 slides weren’t enough to get you curious…
Check this out…
Live Drupal Gardens theme builder demo
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Drupal Gardens pricing structure fitsany budget with value and scalability.
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Launching your customer’s liveDrupal Gardens site.
Customer Domain Name:•Build site under your account.•Customer creates a paid account.•Edit customers CNAME record topoint to xxx.drupalgardens.com•At customers Site Manager, entersubdomain info.•Done.
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Thanks for your time and attention
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