Date post: | 15-Feb-2017 |
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Some of Drupal’s challenges
• Beware poorly planned websites
• Dependence on technical community and
absence of contractual obligations
• The recruitment market for development
resource
Mobile engagement
Mobile as standard:
“We’re spending two hours online on our smartphones every day; twice
as long as laptops and PCs”
Ofcom, Aug 2015
Accessibility and mobile
46% of local council sites passed mobile accessibility tests compared
to a pass rate of between 65% and 71% for desktop access.
What’s Was Wrong With TheOld System?
Proprietary Web Content Management:
• Not cheap
• Rare skillset
• Opaque data format
• Hard to extend
Why Drupal?
• Free and open source
• Common skillset (LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• Transparent data format
• Easily extensible (10,000+ contributed modules)
But Why Drupal?
• 8% of the top 10,000 Web sites(second after Wordpress)*
• Major examples include whitehouse.gov, economist.com
• Community of nearly 22,000 developers
• Support providers
What’s Wrong With Drupal?
• Too many ways to do things
– so: plan on spending time doing research and testing – get advice!
• Unoptimised database queries
– so: need a mature caching strategy – get more advice!
What Does It Do?
• Core functionality
– editing by small team
– flexible content schema
– simple navigation, taxonomies
– comments, blogs, forums, and polls
– search
Key Modules
• Views: flexible data presentation
• Panels: advanced layout
• Workbench: enterprise-oriented editing workflow
• Web forms
• Content rating
• Apache Solr search engine