DrupalCamp STL: Get Your Drupal Sea Legs

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Slides from DrupalCamp STL 2014 "Get Your Drupal Sea Legs" roundtable

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  • 1. Get your Drupal Sea Legs

2. Today's Tour Drupal in a nutshell Common dangers for new navigators Calling the Drupal Coast Guard Q&A 3. Drupal...in a nutshell Content Management System/Framework Maintained and developed by a community of 630,000+ users and developers Used to power high-profile sites such as whitehouse.gov, Examiner.com, The Economist (economist.com) Not perfect, but pretty awesome 4. Common dangers Plan your structure Don't hack core Modules are great...until you've installed too many Develop & test locally Backup your site...now...right now Version Control System (GIT, SVN, etc.) Features Security FTW! 5. Calling the Drupal Coast Guard http://api.drupal.org Blog posts/Tutorials (Google searching) Books (Pro Drupal Development, The Definitive Guide to Drupal) Issue Queue Irc (https://drupal.org/irc) Social Media (twitter, google plus) Drupal Meetups Drupal Mentors Paid Training (buildamodule.com, drupalize.me, drupaleasy.com Drupal Con/Camp training sessions 6. Calling the Drupal Coast Guard http://api.drupal.org Blog posts/Tutorials (Google searching) Books (Pro Drupal Development, The Definitive Guide to Drupal) Issue Queue Irc (https://drupal.org/irc) Social Media (twitter, google plus) Drupal Meetups Drupal Mentors Paid Training (buildamodule.com, drupalize.me, drupaleasy.com Drupal Con/Camp training sessions