Introducing Drupal and Drupal.Org Community in PUP QC, PH

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Introduction of Drupal as CMS (CMF for most concise) of choice. Advantages of choosing Drupal over other CMS. Career opportunities in Drupal web development. Introduction the community.

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  • 1. Welcome to Drupal 7 and the Community

2. Drupal 7 and the CommunityAbout this Topic Introduction of CMS technologies Introduction of Drupal as CMF Comparison with other CMS technology Advantages of using Drupal Careers as Drupal Web Developer The Drupal.Org Community 3. Drupal 7 and the Community A freelance webdeveloper Former bankoperation officer inBDO Started developingweb sites since 2011 4. Drupal 7 and the CommunityWhat is CMS? CMS means Content Management System CMS main purpose is to eliminate webmasters CMS web developers develop websites andtransfer the project to the client with it'sadministration access. 5. Drupal 7 and the CommunityAdvantages of using CMS technology Eliminate pages updates from the client(pictures, articles, slides, user-access,permissions, deletion and editing ofcontents,etc) Faster web development processes Modules or plug-ins are available for free 6. Drupal 7 and the CommunityWhat is Drupal? Drupal is a powerful CMF technology thatoutsmart other CMS projects, in terms ofrobustness, module/plug-ins capabilities, andsecurity. Strength of Drupal is coming from the supportof the community 7. Drupal 7 and the CommunityComparison of Drupal to Wordpress Drupal have more free and qualitable (andmore powerful) modules e.g. Views, Fields,Taxonomy, Panels, and SuperFish Drupal has larger community support 8. Drupal 7 and the CommunityWhat are Advantages of Using Drupal asCMF/CMS? Drupal makes web development easier and more stable Drupal makes web developer adept to community You can develop a web application just using Drupal coreand Views, without a single programming code. Drupal developer expose to the other technologies andopportunities 9. Drupal 7 and the CommunityTook me 3 weeks incoding plus another 3days in PSD mock-updesignsTook me 1 week tofinish the 90% of thesite (beginner's skilllevel in subtheming) 10. Drupal 7 and the CommunityA Brief History of Drupal Drupal was an idea born on 2004 due to US Presidentialelection bid of Howard Dean. A website was created for support of Dean's election bidwas named DeanSpace. Unfortunately, as obvious reason, Dean withdrew hiselection bid due to weak primary support 11. Drupal 7 and the Community Drupal was first named drop means water droplet Drupal founder/project leader is Dries Buytaert Dries is a Dutchman Drupal was a erroneous registration, originally should benamed dorp (dorp.org) Later Dries finalized the project should be drupal toextend the experimentation platform. 12. Drupal 7 and the Community 13. Drupal 7 and the CommunityCareers in Drupal as web developer Drupal Jobs O-desk/Elance Other freelancing sites 14. Drupal 7 and the CommunityFor example in Odesk.com Average per-hour paymentof Drupal developer is $23(P989 pesos per-hour)source:https://www.odesk.com/groups/drupal 15. Drupal 7 and the Community Drupal JobsOne senior Drupal developerbased in Canada quoated ...an average of one DrupalDeveloper is $60,000/year)source:https://groups.drupal.org/node/380653 16. Drupal 7 and the Community 17. Drupal 7 and the CommunityIn the Philippines. We have Drupal PilipinasCommunity Facebook page: Philippine Drupal Users Group(PHDUG) www.drupalpilipinas.org. Drupal Apprenticeship training 18. Drupal 7 and the CommunityOur latest Drupal Apprenticeship training regularlyheld in Microsoft Tower, Makati City.5 saturdays. Extensive trainings. Lots of newtechnology learning. 19. Drupal 7 and the CommunityPre-requisites to learn Drupal web development No programming skills required. Just a bigdetermination to learn HTML/CSS skills is an advantage HTML/CSS/PHP is even better advantage Lot of patience, determination, and willing to bementored. 20. Drupal 7 and the CommunityTools/Websites to help to learn Drupal Drupal.org Drupal Apprenticeship Training Learning websites e.g. Buildamodule.com,drupalize.me Books/Ebooks/YouTubes (codekarate, LevelupTuts!) 21. Drupal 7 and the CommunityFinal WordsYou dont need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a collegegraduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need frameworkand a dream. - CEO Michel Dell, Dell ComputersIts not about how to get started; its about how to get noticed. -CEO Steve Case, America OnLine