Site Building

The Rules module is often used as a site building tool to create Drupal websites. The Views Rules module extends Rules and allows you to loop through and process lists of data. This session will demonstrate using the Views Rules module to create complex rules using views data and then act on the data in multiple ways. This module can add a lot of flexibility and power to your site rules.

A common Drupal site building recipe is how to set up an image gallery.

This session will guide site builders through the setting up a gallery in Drupal 8.

It will cover the challenges encountered while trying to setup an image gallery and how to overcome them. At the end of the session, attendees will understand how to have a basic gallery up and running.

Views is a popular module that can be confusing for the beginner. This session will review some of the important features of Views in Drupal 7 and highlight some additional modules that extend the power of Views.

Topics include:
How to filter and sort Views results
How to rewrite outout and setup no results messages
How to include a view inside another view

We all hate wasting money!  As Federal Government agencies we have to find a unique balance beween contractors/feds; coders/designers/users; communications/operations...  The key is to implement the right technolgies and expertise to derive a team that can work TOGETHER to build a site that your organization can use to reach it's audience now and in the future without the need for a major overhaul in 1-2 years.

DC.Gov is the District of Columbia's government web portal. The portal consists of over 100 websites, including over 80 agency websites. In 2014, it had 29 million visits from 14 million visitors. It won the 2014 Best of the Web award for City Government Web Portals from the Center for Digital Government.

In architecting a federally-focused Drupal website, it is as equally important to examine site architecture, as it is the back-end system architecture. In this presentation, we will take a deep dive into the infrastructure components that compose the Drupal system architecture and best practices for deploying your site in the cloud. Topics covered by this presentation include:

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts provides a broad array of professional services to meet the needs of judges and others working in federal courts nationwide. Kevin McCulloch, senior web developer and contractor at New Target, Inc., will explain how the Administrative Office has leveraged the power of installation profiles and the migration module to create a standard Drupal distribution, complete with custom themes and sample content, to help federal courts get their websites up and running fast.

HealthyPeople.gov allows users to create customizable searches to find data, evidence-based resources and interventions, and community best practices for improving health at the local, state, and national levels. Each of these tools uses Drupal 7 taxonomies and the faceted search API to ensure the consistent usage of terms across the site, as well as to allow content managers to quickly update a term site-wide.

The Headless, or Decoupled Drupal concept has been around for a bit now, but what is it really? In this session we will go over some basics of a few key concepts around decoupling some (or all) content from the Drupal rendering pipeline, and how you can use this concept to create fast, lean, and modern applications while relying on Drupal to do the bulk of the content modeling work, and the less sexy, yet important bits like user and content management. The key takeaway here is that it is far from an all or nothing approach, hence: