Category: DIWD11

Site building with Drupal 101

Get a crash course in the basics of building a website using Drupal 7 and all the features and functionality baked in to the latest and greatest release of our favorite CMS. In this session we'll...

Site building with Drupal Using Views

Site Building | 1h 12m

Out of the box Drupal 7 has a ton of powerful tools for collecting and storing content provided by your site's administrators and end users. Once that content exists though how do we make use of...

Introduction to Drupal

Site Building | 1h 15m

New to Drupal or just need a quick refresher in some of the topics and related terminology? In this session we'll explain nodes, blocks, users, roles, taxonomy and many of the other basic concepts...

Fantasy Site: Groupal (Meetup.com)

Fantasy Sites | 1h 12m

In this Do it with Drupal presentation Karen Stevenson has cloned Meetup.com in Drupal and called it Groupal. Hear how Karen incorporated Organic Groups with events, locations, rsvps, photo...

An Overview of Performance & Scalability

Drupal can power any site from the lowliest blog to the highest-traffic corporate dot-com. Come learn about the high-end of the spectrum with this comparison of techniques for scaling your site to...

An Overview of Drupal Deployment

Using version control is a great way to keep track of your code and ensure you have a way out of snafus, but what about all the little bits of configuration that get stored in the database in a...

Fantasy Site: Pineapple Store (Apple Store)

Fantasy Sites | 1h 14m

Drupal Commerce brings the full power and flexibility of Drupal 7 to e-commerce website development. In this Do it with Drupal presentation, Ryan Szrama will show a variety of sites built with...

Responsive Drupal Today

Theming | 58m

In this session from the Do It with Drupal 2011 conference, Jake Strawn talks about responsive web design with Drupal.

We've all heard a lot recently about Responsive Web Design, Mobile-...

Developing Mobile Apps Using Drupal as a Base System

This track will explain how to use Drupal as base system to manage your mobile application's data (photos, videos, content, users, geo info, taxonomies, etc). We will demo some apps built for...

Drupal as a mobile application platform

Everyone knows that Drupal is a great CMS for building websites, but did you know that you can also use it to power your mobile apps? Using the Services module, you can take all the content on...

An Introduction to Drush

Drush is the Drupal Shell, which has become a key tool in the Drupal site-builder and developer toolbox. In this Do it with Drupal session, Andrew Berry will teach what Drush is and give an...

Case Study: Energy.gov

Case Studies | 1h 8m

This summer, the US Department of Energy re-launched Energy.gov on Drupal. The technical requirements of the project were driven by an internal need to consolidate the publishing and editorial...

Fantasy Site: Drumblr (Tumblr)

Fantasy Sites | 1h 11m

In this Do it with Drupal presentation Joe Shindelar demonstrates how he used Drupal to create the Drumblr blogging site. See which modules he used to build the site.
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Fantasy Site: Petflix (Netflix)

Fantasy Sites | 1h 10m

In this Do it with Drupal presentation Blake Hall has recreated Netflix with Videola, which is an open source distribution of Drupal (built with Lullabot love) for powering IPTV websites. In this...

Semantic Views and more

In this Do it with Drupal session, Earl Miles will teach you how to control the markup of a view. Add classes, change the HTML elements, group fields in a layout, or go all the way to using Panels...

A Vision for Version Control

What is version control? Why should we be using it? Where do we even start? Managing your code is very important, both to make sure you don't accidentally lose a lot of work, but to also make it...

Data migration best practices

OK, you've committed to Drupal - or you're at least pre-engaged. You can visualize your new site - the nice clean front-end, the whiz-bang social networking features, the flexibile administration...

Upgrading from Drupal 6 to 7

In this Do it with Drupal session, Karen Stevenson, takes a look at upgrading to Drupal 7. It has a lot of really nice new features in it, so upgrading your site could bring a lot of benefits....

Jeffrey Zeldman Keynote: Gotta Serve Somebody

Theming | 52m

In this Do it with Drupal keynote, Jeffrey Zeldman discusses the Task of Modern Web Design, the importance of responsive design, and the fact that...

Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Web Content

In this Do it with Drupal session, Karen McGrane will talk about how we have to adapt to creating more flexible content. For years, we've been telling designers: the web is not print. You can't...

Why open source matters

Community | 1h 12m

If you're reading this message, you use Open Source software. The last fifteen years has seen the meteoric rise of tools like Linux, Apache, Firefox, WordPress, Drupal and more;...

The Pitfalls of Being Agile

A Critical Look at the Agile Process on the MarthaStewart.com Drupal Re-Platforming

Case Study: Zappos

Case Studies | 1h 15m

Zappos has been using Drupal for over 3 years. We have utilized Drupal for homepages, landing pages, brand pages, various static content driven websites (blogs.zappos.com, developer.zappos.com),...

It's Not Your Father's Web: Designing for HTML APIs

Theming | 1h 14m

In this session from Do It With Drupal 2011, Jen Simmons gives an overview of some of the new APIs available within HTML5 and sets the context for how the web has evolved over the years.

Translating into Drupalese

Just because you've never used Drupal doesn't mean you don't already posses a wealth of knowledge related to building a website. In this session we'll cover some of the basic principals of...

You've Already Got What It Takes To Make a Mobile App

Explore an alternative approach to creating apps for iPhone and iPad. The free PhoneGap framework lets you build first-class native iPhone apps using just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – a technique...

Case Study: TakePart.com with Open Publish

TakePart, the digital division of Participant Media, uses its films and hundreds of social action partners to develop a a rich ecosystem of related content and social action campaigns. To...

Josh Clark Keynote: Mobile Context Is a Myth

The mythical mobile user who's always distracted and in a rush doesn't always, or even usually, exist. Yet too often we design for that context, creating mobile apps and websites as lite versions...

Jeff Robbins Keynote: The Ascension of the Web

In this Do it with Drupal keynote, Jeff Robbins takes a look at the past, present, and future of Drupal and how that fits into the future of the web....

Building a dynamic team

In this Do it with Drupal presentation, Diana Dupuis looks at building a great team. A Drupal website is as effective, performant, and reliable as the team who builds it. Whether you need one...

Case Study: Grammy.com

Faster, Higher, Stronger: Making Drupal fast – and scalable – for GRAMMY Sunday

The official website of the GRAMMYs gets pounded on GRAMMY Sunday, as music fans by the millions flock to the...

Web Typography: Putting Arial Out to Pasture

Theming | 1h 9m

In this session from the Do It With Drupal Conference 2011, Jason Pamental talks about the latest trends of web typography.

Arial's days are numbered, and we should all celebrate. Come...

Web Strategy, What it Is and Why We Need to Care

What clients expect of their (increasingly inaccurately defined) 'web designer' is a problem. A big one. 'Web designer' more often means a 'web solution' incorporating design, marketing, IA, UX...

Managing Risks of Dumping Your Old CMS for Drupal

In the old days, moving to Drupal often meant converting static pages or templates to Drupal nodes. Today, it is rare that we get to build a site from scratch. Reality is that most major Drupal...

Designing for Content Management Systems

Theming | 1h 10m

In this session from Do It With Drupal 2011, Jared Ponchot talks about special considerations for designing for a CMS.

The job of a web designer these days includes designing for content...

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