Introduction To Drupal

Drupal - An open source Content Management System

Presentation Path

• History of Drupal • Principles of Drupal• Drupal’s structure• Key terminologies in Drupal• Trends in Portals – Web 2.0 & Web 3.0• Showcase websites in Drupal

History of Durpal

• Dries Buytaert was the founder of Drupal.

• He started a small news site with a built-in web board, allowing a group of friends to share content. He called it drop.org. drop was a typo for the dutch word dorp that meant village.

• In January 2001, Dries released the free software Drupal, that means Drop in dutch!

• Over 650,000 users

http://buytaert.net/

Principles of Drupal – An open, modular & extendable approach to portal management

• Key Principles of Drupal• Modular and extensible• Quality coding • Standards-based • Low resource demands• Open source• Ease of use• Collaboration

Drupal’s structure – Catering to multi channel delivery and organization agility

• At the core is the Data/ Assets – Multiple data formats and media are supported

• Modules provide various functionalities – allows for organizing data to cater to different business context

• Blocks and menus are output / navigation elements – allows for personalization of representing information

• User Permissions – roles based access to information and functions

• Template – provides for various layout options – allows for presentation and styles

Key terminologies• Node – the smallest element in Drupal,

usually content• Module – defines a distinct functionality• Theme – defines the look and feel of the

website, the layout• Taxonomy – provides for classification

and categorisation of content• Blocks – a method of positioning data

on a page

Web 2.0 functionalities – Opening new vistas leading to the next frontier of Web 3.0

• Organisations can reach out to their community and bring them together using Drupal’s Web 2.0 features • Newsletters• Chat

• Visitors Interactions• Feedback & reviews• BLOGs – by users• Forums & Discussion Boards • Commenting

• Rating, Voting• Social publishing capabilities

• Share / Book marking• RSS and RDF formats

Web 3.0 functionalities – The next frontier

• The advent of the semantic web• Context based information• User interface for content

enrichment• Provide for personalized

publishing and interaction• In addition to all the

functionalities and capabilities of Web 2.0

MNC companies using Drupal

• Sony’s Music Library - a site where you can watch all videos in Sony's video library

• New York Observer – a prominent New York City newspaper website

• Warner Brothers -a Drupal multisite setup providing the ability for each of their artists’ sites to share the same Drupal codebase

Sony’s music library

http://myplay.com

New York Observer

http://www.observer.com/

Warner Brothers

http://www.warnerbrosrecords.com/

Drupal websites by Netlink• Deccan Chargers - a sports website, that offers high

interactivity and multimedia support features of Drupal

• Deccan Chronicle – a newspaper website with about a 75,000 visits per day, demonstrates scalability

• Andhra Bhoomi – a regional language newspaper, demonstrates Drupal multilingual features

• Papyrusclubs – a community newspaper publishing platform for schools & colleges - demonstrates Drupal’s multisite & ease of use features

• Aarti home – an NGO website that demonstrates Drupal’s ease of integration with payment gateways

Deccan Chargers

http://www.deccanchargers.com

Deccan Chronicle

http://www.deccanchronicle.com

Andhrabhoomi

http://www.andhrabhoomi.net

Papyrusclubs

http://www.papyrusclubs.com

Aarti Home

http://www.aartihome.org/

Useful links

• http://www.drupal.org

• http://groups.drupal.org/

• http://www.lullabot.com

Thank you!