Is Drupal Right for My Website?
DrupalCamp Dallas 2009
Lee Raney
“obiwan” on Drupal.org
Twitter.com/leeraney
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Take-Aways
List of things to look for in a CMS Understand one business owner’s reasons for selecting Drupal Start your own criteria list for what you need for your site Overview of Drupal vs. Joomla vs. Wordpress vs. proprietary Understand Drupal’s strengths and reasons to select Drupal resources to get you started Case Studies - See how Drupal used on several large sites The Drupal Community – getting involved! Top Web 2.0 Drupal Modules
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What to Look for in a CMS
Depends on your needs CMS or Development Framework? Start your Criteria List…suggestions
– Easy for users to contribute (user-generated content)– Less expensive to add new features– Latest web trends- Web 2.0– Large community behind it– Open source– Not a hosted service
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My Criteria – Christian.com
Open source and on own site Social networking and publishing user content Leverage as much existing as possible More cost effective to build and maintain Extensible
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What about other CMS’s?
Wordpress Joomla Other open source Other proprietary
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Why Drupal?
Site Building Blocks – Rapid Development Leverage 1,800 ad-on modules Designed for social publishing Open source – lower costs for development and
lower cost of ownership Secure and stable Community Supported by top companies
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Why Drupal? - Community
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•2 Million Downloads
•240,000 Community Members
•Over 700 Contributors to Drupal 6 core release
•Drupal Association
•DrupalCon
•Local Drupal Groups
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Drupal Case Studies
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View Slideshow at:
KoineMedia.com/whydrupal
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Drupal Resources
Local Group – meetings and DallasDrupal.org Lullabot – podcast and Using Drupal Groups.Drupal.org GotDrupal Videos PlanetDrupal.TV Acquia.com
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Web 2.0 and Social Media Modules
Add This Facebook Connect
(fbconnect) Drupal for Facebook
(fb) Tweet Meme Twitter – Dustin Feed API Add This
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Why are You Here?
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Discussion – what do you want to get out of this DrupalCamp?
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