Views is an incredibly powerful module if you know how to use it. If you know how to extend it, well, you're golden. But how do all of Views' moving parts fit together?
This session will attempt to explain the over-arching design of the Views 2 module, and how one goes about writing plugins, handlers, and supporting new tables. The goal will be to give attendees a sense of how Views is put together, and therefore how to extend it gracefully. There will be much reading of code.
Doug Vann and Hans Riemenschneider take us through the process of converting the Northwestern University Women's Board from a static HTML site to a rich DRUPAL site. The process; the modules used; the decisions as they took http://www.nudevelopment.com/womensboard/ and made http://nuwomensboard.org/
Doug Vann takes us through some not so familiar territory as he adds content in Drupal 7 and creates nested menus, all the while pointing out how Drupal 7 changes the terminology and methodology being used.
Our clients want Drupal 7 Media right now? But they don't want to wait until Drupal 7? And they don't want to pay for the development necessary to make it happen? Don't worry (too much); there are alternatives.
Aaron Winborn discusses future-proof approaches to creating and using media in Drupal 6, giving a glimpse of what's just around the corner, and harnessing some of the power that's already available, even if it is currently a state of mashing together pieces that weren't necessarily made to work nicely with each other.
Aegir is a distributed provisioning system for Drupal that allows you to manage thousands of sites across as many concurrent instances of Drupal on as many servers as you need. It's built on Drupal itself, so that your user interface to the system becomes a 'meta-drupal' site, with nodes representing all of your hosted sites and all of the components of your hosting environment.
Don't theme yourself into a corner. We built Fusion after years of feedback from designers, site builders, clients, and developers. It's a powerful and supported base theme, with layout and style configuration options built in that you (or your clients) can control through Drupal's UI using the Skinr module. Based on a simplified 960px or fluid 12 or 16-column grid, you can easily define your own custom grid if needed.
Doug Vann will be walking through the install of Drupal7 Alpha3 and some basic configuration. If you haven't even looked at Druapl7 yet, check this out!
If you haven't heard of these two modules, you're not alone. They are among the best kept secrets. With the Demo module you can create database backups THROUGH THE DRUPAL GUI then if you need to later, restore the backup THROUGH THE DRUPAL GUI! You can also add the Demo_Profile to the mix and create an Install Profile from the database backup you created with the Demo module! Check it out!
