Site Building

Taking over support for Drupal site you didn’t build can be scary business. Make it less scary by conducting a comprehensive audit. A poorly constructed site can sap energy out of an organization, so the value of conducting an audit is in building a collection of maintainable sites that allows your organization to scale it’s support services. This session will review the audit checklist used by the Forum One team before taking over support work for any Drupal site. These audits provide tips on how to systematically explore:

Learn the basics of using Drupal Features (Drupal 7) for configuration management, version control, and collaborative development.

This presentation will be about the importance of keeping your modules up-to-date and highlight how the lack of proper modules maintenance will not only affect your site performance but also expose to huge security risks.

I will also touch on the contrib vs coustom scenario and share tips based on past experience on when to use contrib or custom modules and how maintenance and future enhancement will affects choices you make.

I will talk about some of the available tools that will help you keep your modules healthy.   

How do I ensure that my Drupal project will be successful? How can I translate my project needs into a useful set of specifications for our Drupal implementation? What should I know about Drupal before I adopt it as my CMS?

Whether you’re a potential Drupal adopter, a Drupal developer, or a project manager, if you have ever pondered any of those questions, this session is for you.

When an existing site is being rebuilt in Drupal, content often has to be migrated from the old site to the new Drupal site. This can be done using the Feeds module, along with Feeds Xpath Parser and Feeds Tamper, when an XML file of the content can be generated from the existing site. This session will cover the following:

Building on the data standards session given at Drupal Gov Days half-day conference in Marhc, this data standards session will provide a brief overview of data standards work being done at the Federal level today, including a baseline recap of US Project Open Data, but also more broadly. 

One of the strengths of Drupal is that it's not just a tool for building a single website. It can be used equally well for managing multiple companion sites together. This capability has existed for many years, but is not always well understood. And in true Drupal fashion, modern Drupal has several different options available for users looking to run a series of Drupal sites together, each with its own trade-offs.

Many users prefer WordPress because of its simplicity and usability, but when looking for something more powerful or versatile, Drupal can easily become the better option. Both of them are easy-to-use, open source content management systems, and the process of migration can be equally as simple when migrating from WordPress to Drupal.

WordPress Import/Export facilitates migration, as it uses the XML file or WordPress Export file (WXR), which contains all information about author, nodes, vocabularies, and comments.

Are you trapped in the WYSIWYG editor or are you using the advanced capabilities available to you within Drupal? In this session we’re going to move beyond the editor interface to discuss how to create editorial workflows using Workbench, SEO features, Taxonomy, Rules, Roles, Blocks and Content Types to produce meaningful and impactful content.

This session is geared toward site builders and content creatores, as we develope new site we want to ensure that publishing content is a snap not a chore.