Transcript Web page management system Jonathan Millis Educational Design Resources NTID at RIT History of Drupal  The name Drupal, pronounced "droo-puhl," derives from the English.

Web page management system
Jonathan Millis
Educational Design Resources
NTID at RIT
History of Drupal
 The name Drupal, pronounced "droo-puhl," derives
from the English pronunciation of the Dutch word
"druppel," which means "drop“ (as in drag and drop.)
 Created in 2000
 2001 - Drupal became open source
 Free download
 Usage Statistics
http://drupal.org/project/usage/drupal
RIT adopts Drupal
 2010 – RIT chooses Drupal as the web content
management system campus wide
 Other web content systems
 Joomla
http://www.topnotchthemes.com/blog/090224/drupalvs-joomla-frank-comparison-ibm-consultant
 WordPress
http://www.goodwebpractices.com/other/wordpress-vsjoomla-vs-drupal.html
 RedDot
Why Drupal?
 Advanced URL Control — Unlike WordPress, Drupal gives you precise
control over URL structure. Each item of content in Drupal (called a
node) can be given a custom URL (called a URL alias). In WordPress you
are generally limited to one type of permalink URL for all posts.
 Custom Content Types and Views — You can use the Content Construction
Kit (CCK) and Views Modules to create new content types and create
advanced custom views for them without writing any code. A few
examples of "content types" are "blog posts", "news stories", "forum
posts", "tutorials", "classified ads", "podcasts". You can create as many
custom content types as you would like and display them in many
different ways. Most content management systems would require writing
code to accomplish these tasks, but there is no programming knowledge
required to do them in Drupal.
 Revision Control — You can configure Drupal to save a new version of your
pages every time they are editing. That means that you can go back to
view or revert old revisions if you want.
Why Drupal? (continued)
 User Management — Drupal was designed for community-based Web
sites and has strong user role and access control functionality. You
can create as many custom user roles with custom access levels as you
need. For example you could create the following roles, each with
different levels of access to your features: "anonymous visitor",
"authenticated user", "moderator", editor", "webmaster", "admin".
 Page Titles and Meta Tags — Drupal's Page Title Module gives you
custom control of your HTML <title> elements, while the Meta Tags
Module gives you control over your pages' individual meta description
tags. This is difficult in some content management systems, but it's easy
with Drupal.
 Excellent Documentation — Documentation includes the official
handbooks, the massive API Reference, numerous tutorials, blogs,
videos, and podcasts, and the excellent new book Pro Drupal
Development. There is even a Drupal Dojo community where you can
learn how to become a Drupal ninja.
Why Drupal? (continued)
 PHP Template — Drupal uses the PHP Template theme engine by default.
Theming in Drupal is easier than theming in WordPress and doesn't
necessarily require any PHP knowledge.
 Drupal Cookbooks — If you want a feature that is not built into Drupal
by default, chances are that someone has already written a code
snippet for it and posted it in the code snippets section of
Drupal.org.
 Large and Friendly Community — With so many major sites using
Drupal, it's not going away soon. For an idea of the size of the
developer community, take a look at the long list of communitycontributed modules.
Who is using Drupal?
 www.whitehouse.gov
 www.grammy.com/
 www.economist.com/
 www.motherjones.com/
 library.rit.edu
Is Drupal for you?
 Easy to manage, update, edit…
 You don’t need to know how to program.
 Update is instant.
Themes
 Thousands to choose from:
 http://drupal.org/project/Themes
 http://themegarden.org/
Examples of NTID Drupal sites
 http://www.rit.edu/ntid/edr/projects/portfolio/websites
How to Request a Drupal site
 At NTID:
http://www.rit.edu/ntid/edr/services/website