basic drupal recipes - badcamp 2009

Basic Drupal Recipes and Best Practices for Beginners

BADCamp – October 17th, 2009

Welcome to the Jungle

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Carl Wiedemann

c4rl on IRC, drupal.org

Why Recipes & Best Practices?

Reason 1

Not a lot of guidance out of the box...

Reason 2

2886...

So many modules. So little time.

Is there a right better way?

Reason 3

“This is what worked for me...”

Part I: Some Remarks on Planning

The Linear Pitfall

Design Function Content

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Planning vs Building

Design Function Content

Design Function Content

Strategy vs Planning vs Building

Design Function Content

Design Function Content

Purpose + Audience + Actions

Part II: Building a Site

My my, where to begin?

With a special new tool...

http://www.!ickr.com/photos/lucastheexperience/3469305764/

Paper Prototyping!

First Steps

The Admin Section

DEMO

First Steps

Roles and User Settings

DEMO

First Steps

Viewing the site as multiple users

DEMO

First Steps

Content Types and Nodes

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First Steps

Content Types and Nodes

DEMO

Section by Section

Services Page Home Page

DEMO

Section by Section

Events Calendar Blog

Downloads

All of these are lists of nodes, grouped by type

CCK + Views

CCK + Views Add new !elds to content types:

Text, numeric, date, !les, images, video...

CCK + Views Add new !elds to content types:

Text, numeric, date, !les, images, video...

Create a list of nodes using !lters, ordering,

!elds, display

Blog

CCK + Views Title Body

Filter: type = blog Display: teaser

Order: date (desc)

Events Calendar

CCK + Views Title

Date + Time Location

Description

Filter: type = event Filter: dates in future

Display: all !elds Order: date (ascending)

Downloads

CCK + Views Title

File upload Filter: type = download

Display: Title, link Order: Custom, title

Section by Section

Events Calendar Blog

Downloads

DEMO

Section by Section

Contact Us

Section by Section

Contact Us

DEMO

Now what??

Thinking in Drupal

Basic Drupal Recipes and Best Practices for Beginners

BADCamp – October 17th, 2009

Thanks! Q+A

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