Introduction to Drupal for Libraries An Webinar
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Introduction to
Drupal for LibrariesAn Webinar
Laura Solomon, MCIW, MLS
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Some content & graphics courtesy of Isriya Paireepairit
August 28, 200912 pm-1 pm
Infopeople webinars are supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Agenda
• What is Drupal?
• What can you do with Drupal?
• Examples
• Practical realities
• Live demo
{Dutch} druppel
pronounces Drupal {English}
means drop {English}
What does “Drupal” mean?
What is Drupal?
•Content management system (CMS)•Open source (GPL)•Mostly/entirely W3C compliant•Extremely extensible
What’s behind Drupal?
Award-winning CMS
CMS vs. development framework
• Drupal is both!
• Provides the building blocks for complex web sites and dynamic web apps
System requirements
• Apache/IIS
• PHP
• MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Patience!
What can you do with it?
Drupal structure
Contributions
Modules
Core (optional)
Core (required)
Core functionality
• Block - box display
• Filter - input format
• Node - content
• System - admin, theming, ...
• User
• Watchdog - logging
Core (optional)
•Blog•Comments•Forum•Menu•Locale•Path
Contributed modules
• CCK
• Views
• Poormans’ Cron
• FCKeditor/TinyMCE
• Mollom
• Image
Modules just for libraries
• Not a ton, but some robust ones
• Some work with specific ILSs
• Most are designed to work with specific products/protocols
Contributed themes
Examples
• Non-library installations
• Library installations
(www.MichaelJackson.com)
(www.popsci.com)
(Recovery.gov)
(www.infoworld.com)
(MotherJones.com)
(www.wfp.org)
(www.oxfam.org)
(www.pearljam.com)
(www.abcfamily.com)
(www.beyonce.com)
(www.fedex.com)
(www.theonion.com)
(www.aadl.org)
(www.ahml.info)
(www.kclibrary.org)
(www.pvld.org)
(london.lib.oh.us)
(library.mcmaster.ca)
(www.techsoupforlibraries.org)
Pros of Drupal
• Free• Dynamic
• Re-theming capability
• Granular level of customization
• Huge community
Cons of Drupal
• Knowledge required, documentation iffy
• Third-party pieces can be problematic
• Upgrading is challenging
• Initial setup
• “Free as in free kittens”
The “Drupal Cliff”
Drupal
You
The Drupal Skill Scale
Migrating your current site
• Compare functionality to version
• Automated conversion is possible (sort of)
• WYSIWYG editor
Demo time!
The Drupal Songhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ-s3DRZJKY