Introducing Drupal and Drupal.Org Community in PUP QC, PH
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The document provides an overview of Drupal 7, its advantages as a content management framework (CMF), and comparisons with other CMS technologies like WordPress. It highlights the support of the Drupal community, the ease of use for web developers, and the potential career opportunities in Drupal development. Additionally, it offers information on training prerequisites and resources for learning Drupal.
Introducing Drupal and Drupal.Org Community in PUP QC, PH
- 1. Welcome to Drupal 7 and the Community
- 2. Drupal 7 and the Community About 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 web developer ● Former bank operation officer in BDO ● Started developing web sites since 2011
- 4. Drupal 7 and the Community What is CMS? ● CMS means Content Management System ● CMS main purpose is to “eliminate” web masters ● CMS web developers develop websites and transfer the project to the client with it's administration access.
- 5. Drupal 7 and the Community Advantages of using CMS technology ● Eliminate “pages updates” from the client (pictures, articles, slides, user-access, permissions, deletion and editing of contents,etc) ● Faster web development processes ● Modules or plug-ins are available for free
- 6. Drupal 7 and the Community What is Drupal? ● Drupal is a powerful CMF technology that outsmart other CMS projects, in terms of robustness, module/plug-ins capabilities, and security. ● Strength of Drupal is coming from the support of the community
- 7. Drupal 7 and the Community Comparison of Drupal to Wordpress ● Drupal have more free and qualitable (and more powerful) modules e.g. Views, Fields, Taxonomy, Panels, and SuperFish ● Drupal has larger community support
- 8. Drupal 7 and the Community What are Advantages of Using Drupal as CMF/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 core and Views, without a single programming code. ● Drupal developer expose to the other technologies and opportunities
- 9. Drupal 7 and the Community Took me 3 weeks in coding plus another 3 days in PSD mock-up designs Took me 1 ½ week to finish the 90% of the site (beginner's skill level in subtheming)
- 10. Drupal 7 and the Community A Brief History of Drupal ● Drupal was an idea born on 2004 due to US Presidential election bid of Howard Dean. ● A website was created for support of Dean's election bid was named DeanSpace. ● Unfortunately, as obvious reason, Dean withdrew his election 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 be named “dorp” (dorp.org) ● Later Dries finalized the project should be “drupal” to extend the experimentation platform.
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- 13. Drupal 7 and the Community Careers in Drupal as web developer ● Drupal Jobs ● O-desk/Elance ● Other freelancing sites
- 14. Drupal 7 and the Community For example in Odesk.com ● Average per-hour payment of Drupal developer is $23 (P989 pesos per-hour) source: https://www.odesk.com/groups/ drupal
- 15. Drupal 7 and the Community ● Drupal Jobs One senior Drupal developer based in Canada quoated “... an average of one Drupal Developer is $60,000/year) source: https://groups.drupal.org/node/3 80653
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- 17. Drupal 7 and the Community In the Philippines. We have Drupal Pilipinas Community ● Facebook page: Philippine Drupal Users Group (PHDUG) ● www.drupalpilipinas.org . Drupal Apprenticeship training
- 18. Drupal 7 and the Community Our latest Drupal Apprenticeship training regularly held in Microsoft Tower, Makati City. 5 saturdays. Extensive trainings. Lots of new technology learning.
- 19. Drupal 7 and the Community Pre-requisites to learn Drupal web development ● No programming skills required. Just a big determination to learn ● HTML/CSS skills is an advantage ● HTML/CSS/PHP is even better advantage ● Lot of patience, determination, and willing to be mentored.
- 20. Drupal 7 and the Community Tools/Websites to help to learn Drupal ● Drupal.org ● Drupal Apprenticeship Training ● Learning websites e.g. Buildamodule.com, drupalize.me ● Books/Ebooks/YouTubes (codekarate, Levelup Tuts!)
- 21. Drupal 7 and the Community Final Words “You don’t need to be a genius or a visionary, or even a college graduate for that matter, to be successful. You just need framework and a dream.” - CEO Michel Dell, Dell Computers ● “It’s not about how to get started; it’s about how to get noticed.” - CEO Steve Case, America OnLine