Tomas Park's List: CMS

• Drupal voitti toista vuotta peräkkäin palkinnon parhaasta sisällönhallintajärjestelmästä ja kolmatta parhaasta PHP sisällönhallintajärjestelmästä Packt Publishingin vuotuisessa kilpailussa.

  • Jo toista vuotta peräkkäin.
• Drupal tuli ensimmäiseksi sekä yleisöäänestyksessä, että ammattilaisista koostuvan tuomariston valitsemana.
• Mielenkiintoisimpana valintakriteerinä pidettiin Drupalin suurta ja loistavasti tukea tarjoavaa yhteisöä.
• Jälleen kerran myös Drupalin vahvat sosiaalisen median ominaisuudet nousivat esille kriteereissä.

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• The LevelTen iSite Essentials (iSE) is extended distribution of Drupal designed for building enterprise-class Web 2.0 style websites. It comes in a single download that includes Drupal core, over 60 contributed modules, and several additional custom modules in a pre-configured installation profile.

  • You can either install standard drupal and add moduls as needed or install one of pre-configured drupal installations with pre-selected modules that are made to serve some purpose.
• Blog – Standard Drupal blog with some add on blocks to get more of a WordPress experience.
• Wiki – A version controlled encyclopedia with alphabetically paginated glossary view. Just double bracket a phrase anywhere on your site and it will automatically link to a wiki page. Maintains lists of "to be created" and orphaned wiki pages. (modules: Freelinking, Diff, Talk, Wikipage, Wikitools)
• modules: Flat Comments
• modules: Date, Calendar
• modules: GMap, Location

  • Google maps
• modules: Organic Groups
• modules: Content Profile
• More Essentials Features:
• Content Construction Kit – Extend any content type with virtually any kind of field. (modules: CCK, Date, FileField, ImageField, GetID3, Link, Contemplate)
• modules: Views, View Tagadelic, Calendar, L10 Views
• Panels

  • newsroom and portal home
• modules: L10 Views, Tagadelic, Views Tagadelic

  • Is Tagadelic memory waster?
• • modules: Organic Groups, Private Message, User Relationships)
   

  • Yhteisön rakentamista varten
• WYSIWYG Editor – TinyMCE
• modules: IMCE, ImageAPI, Upload, FileField, ImageField, Image Cache
• modules: PortStemmer, SiteSearchStats
• modules: WebForm
• modules: Page Titles, Meta Tags, Global Redirect, XML Sitemap, Path Auto

  • SEO - Search Engine Optimized
• modules: Captcha, Spam Span, Re-Captcha, Uncaptchalous

  • Spam Control
• modules: JS Tools, LightBox2, jQuery Plugin

  • extended JavaScript on top of Drupal core javascript packages
• Themeing – Zen has become the defacto starting place for a great optimized site theme. Its included with a few modifications to assure all Essentials modules are properly supported. (modules: Custom Breadcrumbs, Zen

  • Zen starter kit theme
• modules: Admin Menu, Advanced Help, Backup & Migrate, Node Export
• modules: Coder, DB Tools, Demo, Devel, Schema, Token

  • Drupal development modules.
• modules: Google Analytics
• Try the demo

  • modules: Demo sites
• Download and start your own LevelTen iSite

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• it is not necessarily the best solution for your specific requirements
• There are several situations where Drupal may or may not be your best choice:
• Although, Drupal provides an excellent blogging platform "out of the box", you will probably find that software that is designed only for blogging will typically have a simpler administration interface.
• You can certainly configure Drupal as a wiki (with the help of several contributed modules) but it may be simpler to use a more specialized solution.

  • like Wikimedia, MediaWiki, Wikispaces

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• Drupal vs Joomla
  I started out with Joomla because at first look Drupal is scary and Joomla has nice shiny buttons and looks easier out the box.

  But from a developers point of view, you'll soon find (as I did) that Joomla is quite rigid and isn't very easy to build on. The plugins just don't interact well with the Joomla core unlike Drupal does with its core. This combined with the lack of clean URLs as standard turned my attention to Drupal and it's awesome hook system.

  Don't get me wrong though, Joomla is a really good CMS and for alot of people it's absolutely perfect. It has all the standard CMS features and an integrated WYSIWYG editor which works great for images and text content, something Drupal really needs as standard! However, there is no support for clearn URLs "out the box" and it's a pretty hefty bunch of files at 2MB.

  • If you are looking for basic CMS that just builds up nice websites without much of extended features then Joomla might be your choice over Drupal
• Drupal can do blogging but if you want a specialised and well-oiled blogging system and nothing else then you should definitely check Wordpress out.
• This is an estimate but I believe now I'm comfortable with Drupal that I can develop a Drupal site 50-60% quicker (depending on complexity) than building a site from scratch.
• The module system (plugins system)
  Modules are add-on bits of PHP code and unlike alot of CMSs Drupal is built to be expanded and these modules intergrate perfectly with Drupals' core

• As I've already mentioned, Drupal has over 2000 add-on modules and this allows you to easily and quickly expand your Drupal site.

  Modules can add functionality ranging from admin menus to dynamic image resizing (imagecache) to content display (CCK/views) to performance improvements (blockcache) and more.
  Check out the Drupal module repository for more.
• Drupal is search engine friendly straight "out of the box".
  Clean URLs (urls like articles/how-to-drupal instead of news?nid=32798234) and clean standard compliant HTML markup in the core themes are installed are standard.

• The Drupal access control system is absolutely brilliant, allowing you full control over user access permission by creating roles (groups of users) and assigning what they can and can't do.
  This works well for membership and community sites as you can have many different roles (admins, endusers and moderators for example) all doing different things on a site.

  The access control system like the rest of Drupal is easily expandable in your own modules.
• Nothing is 100% hack proof, but If you follow the Drupal guidelines, you can be confident your site is safe from hackers.
  Here is a great resource on hack proofing your Drupal site from Commonplaces.com. If you are serious about developing with Drupal read this!!
• Better Documentation
  Most of the time documentation is available but is hard to track down, so central documentation are that is easy to search would be a great addition.
  That said the Drupal Handbooks and Drupal API site are doing a great job, they're just tricky to find for some users who don't yet know the Drupal terminology.

  • Finding documentation might be tricky, before you find it. Try to find some blogs comments on how others have started with drupal.
• Drupal is used by big companies!
  Yes, not just hobbyists use Drupal, big companies like Sony, Sanyo, Oxfam, The NHL, The French Government, Disney, The United Nations and more use Drupal, proof it can be scaled and used on high traffic sites.

  • Keep in mind your needs? Complexity might be more of a time waster than a benefit

• External resources

  Drupal and Joomla comparison
  Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress comparison
  10 SEO reasons to use Drupal
  Another Drupal vs Joomla comparison
  IBM looks at the Drupal theme layer
  Drupal vs Joomla - performance comparison
  Drupal vs Joomla - popularity
  Drupal vs the rest

  • Check it out.More reasoning of drupal and other CMS
• Related Tutorials
  Drupal buddy modules, what are the options?
  Essential Drupal Social Networking Modules
  Installing Drupal modules and themes
  Learning "How to Drupal"

  • Get Started with tutorials and getting familiar with demo sites or sandbox installations

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• Acquia has selected some of the most commonly used and essential community modules for building modern, social publishing websites without programming.
• Administration Menu Renders a menu tree for administrative purposes as dropdown menu at the top of window.
• Advanced Help Provides context sensitive online help for modules, including Views.
• Lightbox Used to overlay images on the current page.
• Acquia Agent Allows Acquia Drupal to securely communicate with the Acquia Network and check for updates.  Acquia Site Information Sends site profile including platform, module, and theme information to the Acquia Network to facilitate support and update notifications.

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• Materiaalia ja kirjoja löytyy Drupalille aika iso pino josta valita. Tärkeä valintakriteeri on se miten uusi kirja on, koska Drupal kehittyy varsin nopeasti. Kirjat jotka on julkaistu ennen kesää 2008 voi tässä vaiheesssa jo aika suosiolla unohtaa. Tuoreimmat tiedot löytyvät aina webistä, mutta tieto on aika sirpaloitunutta useaan eri blogiin ja Drupal.orgin handbookkeihin. Kirjoista suosittelisin tutustumaan johonkin kolmesta vaihtoehdosta oman tarpeen mukaan.
• mitä kirjoja tai muita materiaaleja Drupaliin tutustuvan kannattaisi lukea.
• Using Drupal on hyvä kirja perusteita opettelevalle ja käyttäjälle joka ei ole niin kiinnostunut koodaamisesta. Kirja koostuu pääosin erilaisista resepteistä saittien rakentamiseen ja pyrkii opettamaan Drupalin käyttöä esimerkkien kautta.
• Pro Drupal Development on paras referenssiteos joka Drupalista on ilmestynyt. Kirja kattaa koko Drupalin aina peruskonsepteista koodauksen yksityiskohtiin saakka. Kirja on kuitenkin suunnattu hyvin tekniselle kohdeyleisölle
• Teemoittajalle paras valinta saattaa olla uunituore Front End Drupal.
• Kirjojen lisäksi tarjolla on myös kasvava kokoelma korkealaatuisia opetus DVD:itä jotka voi ostaa ja ladata myös verkon yli. Nämä ovat myös mielenkiintoinen tapa oppia Drupalia.
• Itseopiskelun lisäksi tarjolla on tietysti myös perinteisempää koulutusta

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