Best Practice Checklist for Building a Drupal Website
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This document provides a checklist for building a Drupal site, including planning content types and fields, implementing views and panels, testing, and deploying the site. It covers content strategy, search engine optimization, accessibility, responsive design, user accounts, content types, views, cleanup, and pre-launch tasks. Completing the checklist helps ensure a cleaner configuration, smoother launch, and consistency across the site build process.
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Best Practice Checklist for Building a Drupal Website
- 2. Drupal Consulting, Development, andTraining evolvingweb.ca Suzanne Kennedy, Co-founder @suzanne_kennedy
- 4. SITE BUILDING PLANNING • Planning content types and fields • Creating sample content • Information architecture: menus and layouts • Layout strategy: Panels, Context, Display Suite,Views • Planning out Features
- 5. SITE BUILDING: IMPLEMENTATION • Building out ContentTypes,Views, and Panels • Configuring Module • Theming • Exporting Configuration to Features
- 6. SITE BUILDING: CLEAN-UP • Testing • Improving the admin UI • Testing with Sample Content • Documentation
- 7. SITE BUILDING: DEPLOYMENT • Switching over to Production Settings • Caching & aggregation • Security
- 9. WHY HAVE A CHECKLIST? • Cleaner configuration, less cruft • Smoother launch • Consistency
- 10. WHAT’S ONTHE LIST? • Content Strategy • ContentTypes &Views • Search Engine Optimization • Accessibility • Admin Features • User Accounts • Content Cleanup • Responsive-ness • Pre-launch items
- 12. CONTENT STRATEGY
- 13. REQUIRED FIELDS
- 14. DEFAULTVALUES
- 15. HTMLVS. FIELDS
- 16. MANYVS. FEW CONTENT TYPES • Limit the number of content types • Limit the number of non-required fields
- 18. CONTENT STRATEGY CHECKLIST Make fields required Set a default on fields Choose free HTML vs. individual fields Choose the number of content types Decide on taxonomy vs. list fields
- 19. SEOTOOLS
- 22. Update Aliases
- 23. Update Action for URL Aliases Configuration > Search and metadata > URL Aliases > Settings
- 24. Fix missing navigation on 404 Pages drupal.org/project/404navigation
- 28. SEO CHECKLIST SEO Checklist module Google Analytics Path alias settings, global redirects, pathologic Custom error pages Page titles Use Mollom
- 29. FORTHE ADMIN
- 34. ConfigureText Format Default Configuration > Content authoring >Text formats
- 35. ConfigureText Format Default Configuration > Content authoring >Text formats
- 41. ADMIN UI CHECKLIST Use administrativeViews Build custom adminViews Use DraggableViews Configure your WYSIWYG editor or use BUEditor Configure text formats, consider using Better Formats Embedding images
- 42. ACCESSIBILITY
- 43. CONTEXTUAL LINKS
- 45. COLOUR CONTRAST http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html
- 46. ACCESSIBLETABLES
- 47. USE WAVETOOLBAR
- 49. ACCESSIBILITY CHECKLIST Make link text contextual Add an alt text on images Check for colour contrast Test your tables Test using the Wave toolbar Use the Drupal Accessibility Checklist
- 52. VIEWPORT METATAG <?php $meta_viewport = array( '#type' => 'html_tag', '#tag' => 'meta', '#attributes' => array( 'name' => 'viewport', 'content' => 'width=device-width' ) ); drupal_add_html_head($meta_viewport, 'viewport'); ?> https://drupal.org/project/Viewport
- 53. IE WORK-AROUND Versions 6-8 don’t support media queries In your .info file: stylesheets-conditional[lt IE 9][all][] = ie-960.css
- 54. TEST! • mattkersley.com/responsive/ • screensiz.es • browserstack.com
- 55. RESPONSIVE CHECKLIST Use adaptive image for image re-sizing Viewport meta tag Internet Explorer work-around Testing on different screen sizes
- 56. USER ACCOUNTS
- 57. Set up correct user roles
- 59. Test the permissions for each role drupal.org/project/masquerade
- 61. USERS CHECKLIST Configure permissions & test with Masquerade Check setting for creating user accounts Configure User Emails Login redirect
- 62. CONTENTTYPES
- 64. Manage Display: Is everything is the correct order?
- 65. Manage Fields: Is everything is the correct order?
- 67. CONTENTTYPES CHECKLIST Remove any extra content types Check the order of fields Check the display order of fields Consistent content type settings
- 68. VIEWS
- 69. Delete anyViews orViews displays that you’re not using.
- 71. Make sure thatViews settings are consistent
- 72. Check permissions for Views
- 73. VIEWS CHECKLIST Remove extraViews andViews displays Document yourViews thoroughly ConsistentView modes or field settings inViews ReviewViews permissions
- 74. CONTENT CLEANUP
- 75. Remove all the test content & users from the site
- 76. Remove all the test content & users from the site
- 77. No required fields missing from ‘legacy’ content
- 79. CONTENT CHECKLIST Remove sample content Check that legacy content has required fields Test your image styles with many kinds of image Test your content with lots of HTML
- 81. Disable ModulesYou Don’t Need
- 82. Turn on Caching & Aggregation Configuration > Development > Performance
- 83. Modules up-to-date Configuration > Modules > Update
- 84. Change the Super Admin User Password
- 85. Disable Error Logging Configuration > Development > Logging and errors
- 87. PRE-LAUNCH CHECKLIST Disable modules Turn on caching and aggregation Update modules Change passwords Disable error logging Security review
- 88. CONTRIB MODULES • Views Bulk Operations • Google Analytics • Pathauto • PageTitle • Mollom • AdministrativeViews • DraggableViews • AdministrativeViews • WYSIWYG API • BUEditor • Insert • Image Resize Filter • Security Review • 404 Navigation • Masquerade
- 89. TRAINING PROGRAM We offer public and private Drupal training sessions. evolvingweb.ca/training
- 90. THANKYOU!
- 91. Drupal Consulting, Development, andTraining evolvingweb.ca Suzanne Kennedy, Co-founder @suzanne_kennedy