WordPress to Drupal

Drupal / Wordpress

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

This session‣ My angle:

‣ why Drupal?

‣ Main concepts

‣ Case Studie

‣ First steps

‣ Final thoughts

‣ Your angle

‣ Q & AWednesday, September 28, 2011

Assuming

‣ if(in_array('wordpress_ninja',$me)){ $me['programmer'] = false;}

‣ So i can only speak for designers

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Why Drupal?

‣ The name

‣ Kika

‣ Community Tools‣ Platform for community sites

‣ municipality - citizen - local businesses

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Main concepts vs WP

‣ node based ‣ u can put comments into images example

‣ that's why drupal is used a lot within media sites

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Main concepts vs WP

‣ views vs sql ‣ no more writing SQL.

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Main concepts vs WP

‣ design is separate from functionality ‣ UI can be totally different inside one site.

‣ You can create children sites

‣ You can test new design on live site, because users can see different themes

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Main concepts vs WP

‣ Time ‣ 1st time doing something usually takes more

time and effort.

‣ Fixing the errors / 2nd revision goes faster / other people can help.

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Main concepts vs WP

‣ Backend? ‣ There is (no) backend in Drupal - everything

happens in the frontend

‣ That's one feature i missed in wp

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Main concepts vs WP

‣ Caching ‣ Turn it off when You are developing

‣ (just saved You 10 minutes)

‣ Different way how js and css are treated

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Main concepts vs WP

‣ Modular

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Case study

‣ www.uusmaailm.ee Wednesday, September 28, 2011

First steps

‣ Start with something simple / no time-pressure.

‣ http://mustardseedmedia.com/

‣ If You spend too much time programming, it might be possible that this problem has been solved by somebody else.

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Final thoughts‣ Specialize - themer vs programmer

‣ if You spend too much time coding, You are probably rewriting Drupal.

‣ Waterfall vs Agile (long term projects)

‣ Teamwork vs one-guy-alone

‣ Drupal > Corporate. Wordpress > complex. Joomla > Drupal.

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Your angle / Q & A

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Thank U

‣ Contact me:

Martin Sookael+372 52 99 11 [email protected]

‣ prototype: www.uusmaailm.ee

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