gardens preview webinar v3

Preview of Drupal Gardens15 Minutes from Design to Online

Bryan HouseSr. Director, Marketing

Acquia

@bryanhouse

15 Minutes from Design to Online

Until Now, Drupal is DIY

One path to create & operate Drupal sites– Download binary– Set up LAMP stack– Install Drupal– Find contrib modules to meet requirements– Install contrib modules– Build Drupal site– Theme Drupal site– Tune LAMP stack for performance– Update Drupal application and LAMP stack

Implications of DIY

For superheroes only?

1400 Drupal developers DrupalCon DC

Washington, 2009

Drupal communityincludes many superheroes

Grow Drupal by 100x

Superhero skills need not be

required

When should you use Drupal Gardens?

Match deployment choice to your:- site requirements - business requirements

Big sites => Drupal

Big sites => Drupal

Microsites => Drupal Gardens

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Rapid deploymentHosted, managed service

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Many microsites

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Consistent design elements

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Perishable sites

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Start small and grow

When Is Drupal Gardens a Good Fit?

Most importantly...

You need a service with:nothing to installno servers to update or manage

Who will use Drupal Gardens?

Enterprises, Large and Small

Product launchesMarketing campaigns

Event promotion

Media & Entertainment Companies

Artist sitesPromotional campaigns

Government Agencies, Non-Profit

Political campaignsRapid response

Higher Education Institutions

Departments, projects,faculty sites

What Is Drupal Gardens?

Drupal 7, as a Service

What Is Drupal Gardens?

Library of themes & templates

What Is Drupal Gardens?

Design. Build. Clone.

Social publishing, made simple

ThemeBuilder

Integrated WYSWYG editor

Personal media library

Different layouts on every page

Tagging, vocabularies and metadata

Multi-user authoring

Socially Smart

User profiles

Supercharged blogging

Socially connected

Community enabled

RSS

Single sign on

Role-based permissions

Configurable content types

Custom CSS support

Export sites, no platform lock-in

Scalable, high performance

Up-to-date security

Powerful

Let’s see a demo

On the Horizon

Manage site collections

Themes across sites

Sites configurations

Multisite search

Analytics

Partner Program

Opportunities

–Design agencies

–Development partners

–Affiliate programs

Interested? Sign up @

http://www.drupalgardens.com/partners

Pricing

Drupal Gardens is free through end of 2010

Pricing plans at:

– http://www.drupalgardens.com/pricing

Enterprise packages available - call us

Drupal Gardens - Socially Smart Websites

Power of Drupal 7

Fully managed, hosted social publishing service

Enterprise microsites, campaigns, events and more

Power of Drupal 7

Fully managed, hosted social publishing service, with an open source attitude

Enterprise microsites, campaigns, community sites, events and more

QuestionsFor more information, visit:– http://drupalgardens.com– http://acquia.com– http://twitter.com/drupalgardens– http://twitter.com/acquia

Contact us:

– sales@acquia.com

– 888.9.ACQUIA

Sign up for Drupal Gardens

– http://signup.drupalgardens.com

Today’s webinar recording will be posted at:

http://acquia.com/community/resources/recorded_webinars