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Drupal in Use at Duke

Drupal in Use at Duke. Duke Web Services Office of Information Technology. duke.edu pratt.duke.edu d ivinity.duke.edu t oday.duke.edu medicine.duke.edu n ursing.duke.edu s tudentaffairs.duke.edu law.duke.edu mclibrary.duke.edu c hapel.duke.edu. Our use of Drupal.

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Drupal in Use at Duke

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  1. Drupal in Use at Duke Duke Web ServicesOffice of Information Technology

  2. duke.edu • pratt.duke.edu • divinity.duke.edu • today.duke.edu • medicine.duke.edu • nursing.duke.edu • studentaffairs.duke.edu • law.duke.edu • mclibrary.duke.edu • chapel.duke.edu

  3. Our use of Drupal • Late 2008: our first Drupal 6 site • October 2009: duke.edu • November 2011: our first Drupal 7 site

  4. Drupal 7 Upgrade Overview

  5. Drupal Theme Best Practices • Always use a child theme (or sub-theme) • See #1 • .tpl files are for markup, not logic • Make use of pre-process functions • Don’t go crazy with contributed modules. • Use Drupal’s Methods to add css/javascript to your theme • E.G. conditional stylesheets • drupal_add_css(path_to_theme() . '/css/ie7.css', array('group' => CSS_THEME, 'browsers' => array('IE' => 'IE 7', '!IE' => FALSE), 'preprocess' => FALSE));

  6. How Easy is creating a child theme?

  7. Copy files to sites/all/themes

  8. Edit the .info file

  9. Ready for Customization

  10. Which Parent theme do I choose?????? • What does your site need to do? • Be responsive? • Conform to ‘the grid’? • Change layout/colorization/look-and-feel based on context? • Does it need to be accessible? • Other special aspects?

  11. Some Starter Themes to Consider • Omega • We use it. Tons of regions, and fine grained layout control from UI, and uses grid system. It’s very responsive, though it uses a layered-onion approach to responsive styles. • Boilerplate • HTML5 output. Fixed layout. Very semantic. • Genesis • Very flexible framework. Fixed or fluid layouts. Uses grid system. • Fusion • also has many configurations from the UI. Uses grid system • Zen • Trusty and widespread. Very good community support. Very handy starter themes.

  12. Other important Theme questions • Who is going to work on the theme? • A team? • An individual? • Your nephew? • Who will maintain the theme? • How will you handle versioning and delivery? • Git? • Svn? • Printed copies?

  13. Resources • Delivering Drupal - http://denver2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/delivering-drupal • Drupal Contributed Themes - http://drupal.org/project/themes • Drupal API - http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal • Drupal & GIT - http://drupal.org/node/803746

  14. Projects: Installation profile • Create common default roles and permissions • Configure Shibboleth • Install commonly used modules • Set recommended site options • Optional development set-up

  15. Projects: Duke Events module • Provides default content type with fields set up for Duke Events information • Provides several default views for events

  16. Projects: Duke Feeds module • Preconfigured parsers • Currently supports Events@Duke • Maps information coming out of Events@Duke to fields with no extra set-up • Next step: additional information formats • Scholars@Duke • Faculty Database System (FDS)

  17. Project: Google Custom Search module • Provides integration of Google Custom Search into Drupal • Provides default styles for more detailed customization if needed

  18. Project: Attachments module • Straight-forward way to handle attached documents (PDF, Word, etc) • Tagging and access control • User-friendly • Database-friendly

  19. Project: Drupal 7 Upgrade Assistant • Generates module/theme status report • What do you need to upgrade to latest version of D6? • What are you using that has no stable release for D7?

  20. Next Project ?

  21. Resources at Duke • training.oit.duke.edu/lynda • oit-dws@duke.edu • The person next to you • Future gatherings, email list, etc?

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