Drupalcamp Austin - Jeff Robbins' Keynote

Posted Mon, 2010-11-22 18:40 by matthew

KEYNOTE - Jeff Robbins

These are my notes and videos from the session. Please pardon the brevity. I hope the videos of are of interest and that the notes give a sense of what he discussed.

Jeff started out talking about Lullabot and Lullabot trainings, publications and highlighted a new site that the Bots just started a site called drupalize.me - has all all videos ("netflix" on demand for Drupal).

Whole Lotta Drupal is the name of the presentation and it has two purposes. The first:

It is easy to look at theoretical stuff - and you come away without seeing any Drupal sites. Folks often don't know what sites are using Drupal. So Jeff wanted to show what it does best.

The second:

We are going to build an ecommerce Website in 25 minutes.

Jeff began doing rapid fire review of the following sites. You can see the three videos below that cover these sites.

  • drupal.org - popular site
  • whitehouse.gov - big breakthrough for opensource
  • commerce.gov
  • New York State Senate
  • Amnesty International - being used in NGOs - Internationalization on this site
  • Audubon.org
  • Greenpeace
  • Ubuntu
  • Fast Company - Lots of Drupal in Media
  • Vibe
  • Farmers Almanac
  • Cicycling
  • Mothering
  • Nation
  • Economist
  • Grammy.com - 364 days a year people don't really go to it. On grammy day - 40,000 users signed up (scaling for that day?)
  • Emmy.com
  • mtv.co.uk - nice social networking stuff on it
  • mylifetime
  • Rolling Stones
  • Bob Dylan
  • Grateful Dead
  • Sony Records
  • Warner
  • Universal
  • Cartoon Network
  • PGA.com
  • WWE
  • TWiT (this week in tech)
  • University of Arizona
  • Rutgers
  • Portand State
  • MIT
  • Harvard
  • Yale
  • Brown
  • HotWheels
  • Atari.com
  • iVillage
  • dooce.com (blog site) moved from Wordpress to Drupal because of performance needs.
  • NowPublic (WOO HOO) - sold to Examiner.com content and community is the most important
  • New York Public Library
  • BestBuy Mobile
  • Bingo.com
  • Scientology.org
  • Silk
  • Splenda

Fake Sites

Then Jeff went through a bunch of fantasy sites - or clones of other sites that were built in Drupal. The last video in this section goes through those.

  • Flippr.net - custom pagers
  • rockclimber.com
  • arrayshift
  • Blitter.com
  • thieveslist.com
  • Dretsy - got a cease and desist it was so good

After Jeff finished talking about sites that are in Drupal, he announced we were going to build a Book Seller site. He went through these basic steps and you can follow the process in the last 4 videos.

1) Download drupal
2) Expand Drupal
3) Install Drupal
4) Create a DB
5) Change the site name etc
6) Username for UID1 - superuser for the site
7) Download Modules - you need to get the contrib to- work
8) cck install
9) download and install views and draggable views.
10) Create a content type - book (this seems a little funky to me because there is already a book content type in core)
11) Added a vocab called "Book Tags" to allow for a custom taxonomy
12) Create content on the site - can get a remote photo using "File Field Sources"
13) Used imagecache to resize images on the sites. Created some presets.
14) Now we will create a catalog - going to use Views Module to do this (set it up as a draggable view) Added fields for view. Once grid is built - it shows up nicely - but not on the home page. Add it under "Site Information".
15) The node view isn't great
16) Download a theme - Used Acquia Prosper (cause it is good for selling sites)
17) Downloaded Ubercart to enable ecommerce - big split in Ubercart - there is a new project called Drupal Commerce. Drupal Commerce isn't ready yet. In the short term use D6 and Ubercart.
18) Add a class to the site (class of book)
19) Configure your payment settings

It was a store in 25 minutes.

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Comments

by Anonymous - 2010-11-27 07:26

Is there a way to download the actual presentation (pdf or so)?

Thx

Josh

by matthew - 2010-11-30 00:35

I think he had it set up with video capture in the presentation itself. I'm fairly certain it wouldn't translate well as a PDF.

by rebbetsmith - 2010-11-27 00:08

Their are lot of comparison available about different CMS systems.Which are easiest to use? Which provide the most flexibility in setting up your website? Which provide the strongest features for website community features, workflow, or ease of maintenance?
Rebbet Smith

by Anonymous - 2010-12-02 11:41

Blog -> Wordpress
Fast, lightweight cms -> modx
flexibility at its best -> drupal

modx seems to me a little to oldfashion, in the form of building a site the old way, e.g. showing the overview of the content as a tree. My brain was acking when I saw this in a screencast.

The more you want (features, flexibility) the more you have to learn upfront. But it's only at the beginning. When I started with drupal I thought it is a hard cms, a lot to learn. But now as I'm used to it, it's quite easy and fast to build a site.
And the community is really helpfull.

So if you just want a blog use WS, 'cause it's very good in this and easy to use.
If you want to have more of a cms than a blog then use modx, joomla, drupal or something that might be better and more flexible and with more modules and with more usability and more fun and more whatsoever as Drupal, but I don't know of one ;-)

Arne
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