wordpress to drupal
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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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