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DRUPAL HAS A HISTORY

DRUPAL 1.0

(15 JAN 2001)

DRUPAL 1.0 4092

(15 JAN 2001)

DRUPAL 8.X

(MID 2013)

DRUPAL 8.X 491 794

(MID 2013)

REASONS?

DRIES HAS A DREAM

ELIMINATE THE MIDDLEMAN

ELIMINATE THE DEVELOPER

EACH RELEASE HAS MORE POWER

ALWAYS USE STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY

MOVE CONTRIB TO CORE

CORE IS MORE SECURE

CORE HAS FULL TEST COVERAGE

CORE IS BETTER MAINTAINED

MOVE VIEWS TO CORE

VIEWS IS THE MOST INSTALLED CONTRIB MODULE

JANUARY 2011DRUPAL 7

JANUARY 2011DRUPAL 7

JULY 2011

JANUARY 2011DRUPAL 7

JULY 2011 FEBRUARY 2012

JANUARY 2011DRUPAL 7

JULY 2011 FEBRUARY 2012

JUNE 17 2011VIEWS RC 1

FASTERADOPTION RATE

FANTASTICBATTLE TESTER

15% OF ALL INTERNET USAGE COMES FROM A MOBILE PHONE.

MOBILE

http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-2013-mobile-growth-statistics/

HTML5 is the next step in HTML

HTML5 helps SEO

<article><section><header><footer>

HTML5 helps mobile

<<telephone>

HTML5 helps mobile

<<email>

HTML5 helps mobile

<<number>

RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an OPTIMAL VIEWING EXPERIENCE

DRUPAL 8 is designed to be MOBILE FIRST without harming the desktop experience

MULTILINGUALWONDERLAND

DRUPAL 8 SUPPORTS MULTIPLE LANGUAGESOUT OF THE BOX

TAKES LESS TIME TO BUILD A NEW MULTILINGUAL WEBSITE

WHEN DRUPAL 8 GETS RELEASED THERE WILL BE A STABLE AND USABLE SOLUTION

THIS MEANSLESS BUGSAND LOWER COSTS

TRANSLATIONS ARE IMPORTED AUTOMATICALLY

TRANSLATION SETTINGS ARE FINE GRAINED

THE TRANSLATION INTERFACE HAS DRASTICALLY IMPROVED

IT IS EVEN POSSIBLE TO TRANSLATE THE SITE SLOGAN!

DRUPAL 8 can be a CENTRAL CONTENT HUB

Data can be FETCHED in a restful way from a standard drupal 8 installation

OTHER (drupal) SITES and APPLICATIONS can use the data inserted into the drupal platform WITHOUT EXTRA EFFORT

THE CONNECTION between the two parties can be SECURED in various ways

Data can be PUSHED to a drupal 8 site.

Drupal can be used as a VIEW on top of your central content repository

DRUPAL 8 is an API

IMPROVEDWEBMASTEREXPERIENCE

IMPROVED CONTENT EDIT SCREENS BASED ON USABILITY TESTS

A BUILD IN WYSIWYG EDITOR

SMART COPY PASTE FILTER ADDED

BUILT-IN SECURITY LAYER

DRUPAL 8 HAS ANINLINE EDITOR

IDEAL FOR SMALL ADJUSTMENTS

TOURMODULE

WEBMASTER CAN BUILD OWN INTERACTIVE TUTORIAL

LIMITED WEB KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

TOURS WILL BE TRANSLATABLE

Improved deploy and maintenance experience

New FILE BASEDconfiguration system

CONTENT gets stored in the DATABASE

CONFIGURATION gets stored in FILES with a HUMAN READABLE syntax

EASIER DEPLOYMENT

LESS DANGEROUS

CHEAPER

DRUPAL 8 IS A MODERN CMS

OPTMIZED FOR SEARCH ENGINES

USING SCHEMA.ORG SYNTAX

A REBUILD ON TOP OF

SYMFONY 2

SET OF COMPONENTS CONTAINING BASE FEATURES

WRITTEN IN AN OBJECT ORIENTED WAY

EASY TO EXTEND OR REPLACE FEATURES

GAINS FOR DRUPAL?

LESS CODE TO MAINTAIN

SECURITY++

SOME OF THE NEW FEATURES WEREN’T POSSIBLE WITHOUT SYMFONY

EXPAND THE DEVELOPER POOL

MAKE USE OF JQUERY 2.0

SMALLER IN SIZE AND FASTER

MADE FOR MODERN BROWSERS

IE 8

IE 8

NO WORRIES WE CAN MAKE IT WORK ON THE FRONT END

AND LOTS OF OTHER EXTERNAL TOOLS…

BACKBONE.JSGUZZLE

CREATE.JS

ZEND FEED

DOCTRINE

EASYRDF

GLIPH

PHPUNIT COMPOSER

Things you should know

No upgrade path will be provided

A migration tool is being built

Porting content between different versions will be possible

Makes migrating content from drupal 6 to drupal 8 sites possible

NASCOM

~15.000

235 PATCHES (1.6%)

Nascom has a team of DRUPAL 8 EXPERTS

We promise to have a WORKING drupal 8 version of all the modules we maintain.

Display SuiteSteroids

FullcalendarPerformance

Nice dashSearch api live resultsCommerce direct buy

Production checkInline form errors

Attach exisiting fieldsMenu clone

Record featureFile maintenance

Context codeSmartqueue language

Hook hunter

DISPLAY SUITE is one of the most popular modules and installed on every system we build.

DISPLAY SUITE is maintained by the drupal team @nascom.

DISPLAY SUITE is almost completely ported to drupal 8!

WE are ready to build YOUR drupal 8 projects

NASCOM GENK (HQ)C-MINE 1 BUS 13EVENCE COPPÉELAAN 913600 GENKBELGIUM

PHONE +32 89 20 15 00FAX +32 89 20 15 01INFO@NASCOM.BE

THANKS!

TEST IT!

http://simplytest.me/project/drupal/8.x

(launch sandbox)